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WorksheetsMarriage, Couple, & Family Counseling
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which foundational school approach incorporates MRI elements within a framework of Gestalt and Experiential Therapy?
Structural
Conjoint
Transgenerational
Symbolic-Experiential
Which foundational approach concentrates on intervening with dysfunctional power structures and hierarchies in families?
Symbolic-Experiential
Structural
Transgenerational
Strategic
As long as counselors have theoretical knowledge, they can be successful in helping their clients.
True
False
How many stages does the initial interview consist of?
4
There are not official stages
6
8
Define the concept of "Battle For Structure"
If the therapist doesn’t assert control, therapeutic leverage will be lost.
There should not be a battle. The counselor and client(s) are equal.
This is the battle the counselor fights to create structure in the family.
If the client doesn’t assert control, therapeutic leverage will be lost.
Which is not one of the four official terms for how the counselor can complete "joining"
Use of family chronologies & genograms
Tracking
Mimesis
Using Affective Tone
Interaction between family members/couple and counselor is most easily achieved when...
All members are in agreement of who/what is the problem.
All members are good listeners
All members are willing to change
When the members are not in agreement
If you have an observation team, they are more likely to notice patterns in the clients than you (the therapist).
True
False
When using circular questioning, what is a strategy for getting the most information from a client?
Ask specific, direct questions.
Ask vague, open ended questions.
Questioning each member away from the others, in privacy.
Question everyone at once, the conflict will make them speak their minds.
Switching from use of “She is anorexic” to “She is a girl who refuses to eat” is an example of what kind of reframing?
De-nominalizing
Operationalizing
Positive Connotation
Emphasizing
Which form of reframing is recognizing that “This boy may be acting out to keep his parents from divorcing”
De-nominalizing
Operationalizing
Positive Connotation
Emphasizing Complementarity
At which stages does the counselor maintain centrality and block dialogue between family members?
In-session Conference & Goal Setting
Pre-session Planning & Joining
The counselor does this during all of the stages
Problem Statement & Interaction
Which process is defined "as creating/setting an intervention to attack the hypothesized basis of the present problem?"
Reframing The Hypothesis
Hosting an in-session conference
Using circular questioning
Giving Directives
Directives for families who are expected to carry out the assignment as it is given are called:
Driven to Be Compliant Directives
Defiance-Oriented Directives
Compliance-Driven Directives
Driven Directives
Counselors should specifically tell client(s) to stop doing something/not do something.
True
False
Directives for families assumed to be resistant are called:
Non-Compliant Oriented Directives
Defiance-Oriented Directives
Driven To Be Resistant Directives
Compliance-Oriented Directives
When the defiant-oriented client(s) report that they resisted the HW, reveal to them that this was your goal anyways.
True
False
A low score of differentiation of self means:
The client feels as though they don't know anything about themselves.
Attached to his or her family and unable to act or think independently
Emotionally separated from his or her family and can act autonomously
The client is very in tune with themselves and his or her capabilities.
Which type of rules within a family helps to set the best boundaries?
Clear Rules
As many rules as possible
Strict Rules
You actually shouldn't have any rules
Communication is not a source of dysfunction
True
False
