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Graduate Sociology
Chaos theory suggests that the therapist may utilize any established theory of change as long as there is an emphasis on the exchange of energy and information during therapy.
  1. True
  2. False
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a characteristic of "White Noise Therapy?"
  1. The family therapist equally engages and rewards each member in the family system within each therapeutic session.
  2. The therapist has no goal to any session and is very active.
  3. Ventilation and crisis provoking is encouraged.
Graduate Sociology
Which best describes the dynamics of a conversation among members of an enmeshed family?
  1. Stable, repetitive, almost no variety.
  2. Complex nonlinear patterns, can lead anywhere, dis-similar.
Graduate Sociology
_____ occurs when a system is moving from linear behavior to nonlinearity (a fork in the road).
  1. Bifurcation
  2. Perturbation
  3. Self-Organizing
  4. Butterfly Effect
Graduate Sociology
The second shift in family therapy seems to be attributed primarily to the Milan group. What was the primary focus of their approach?
  1. Autocorrecting and feedback
  2. Coaching and intervention
  3. Hypotheses and pathology
  4. Congruence and respect
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a characteristic of Critical Feedback Stabilization (CFS) interventions?
  1. The therapist performing family intervention for the purpose of crisis stabilization allows the family to go in any direction that they want, until there is a perceived danger.
  2. CFS therapeutic interventions are brief and to the point.
  3. The therapist is fairly passive, unless he thinks that a specific family member's behaviors are "out of bounds," then he will say so.
  4. CFS is more successful when used in instrumental crises and contraindicated in perceptual crises.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a likely therapeutic treatment strategy for an undifferentiated family?
  1. Utilize a behavioral or cognitive behavioral intervention designed to reduce general stress sensitivity.
  2. Utilize long-term techniques including desensitization, group relaxation and writing assignments.
  3. Utilize techniques to create a systemic impetus for a reorganizing crisis.
  4. Utilize individual therapy techniques to directly challenge family rituals to increase differentiation among family members.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT one of the three axes of the Circumplex Model used to describe independent dimensions of family functioning?
  1. Adaptability
  2. Differentiation
  3. Cohesion
  4. Communication/Facilitation
Graduate Sociology
________________ points out that the ultimate effects of an action may not change the targeted situation in the long run, and may even exacerbate that situation.
  1. Equifinality
  2. Multifinality
Graduate Sociology
According to the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response (FAAR), meanings can serve to mediate the balance between demands and capabilities. Which is a TRUE statement?
  1. Situational meanings refer to the family's perceptions of demands and capabilities; global meanings refer to the family's core assumptions.
  2. Situational meanings refer to the family's core assumptions; global meanings refer to the family's perceptions of demands and capabilities.
Graduate Sociology
According to the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model (FAAR), resources and coping are used to meet demands. Which statement is TRUE?
  1. Resources are capabilities a family actively performs, while coping is a capability the family possesses.
  2. Resources are capabilities a family possesses, while coping is a capability the family actively performs.
Graduate Sociology
Which of the following is a FALSE statement?
  1. Transferring some energy from the areas of turbulence in a family to a stagnant area is one goal of the therapist.
  2. Creativity, play, confusion are identifying marks of the butterfly in therapy.
  3. An implication of the butterfly effect is that even small glitches in the expected interplay of family members can have profound outcomes.
  4. Life the butterfly, the life span of a therapist's effectiveness in stirring a system may be long lasting.
Graduate Sociology
As related to Chaos Theory, which is a FALSE statement?
  1. A system moves from being in the transformative state to becoming in the steady state.
  2. The key to a system's ability to adapt is to gain new information.
  3. The fluidity of a family's becoming seems to be based on how information flows or is communicated within the family.
  4. Clinicians have no tools except themselves to work with their clients.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a strategy suggested by McCown and Johnson's ADEPT technique for determining early termination of treatment.
  1. Encouraging the family to accept responsibility for treatment termination.
  2. Pursuing aggressive problem solving untilthe family has demonstrated a commitment to therapy.
  3. Preparing the family for more extensive therapy by enabling them through enactment of minor changes.
  4. Increasing, rather than lowering the family tensions that may prompt early termination.
Graduate Sociology
A dysfunctional family's dependence on its therapist for solving family crises over and over again is an example of ______.
  1. Positive Feedback Loop
  2. Negative Feedback Loop
Graduate Sociology
The position or set of boundary conditions to which a system gravitates as it moves from order to disorder.
  1. Period-Doubling Route
  2. Bifurcation
  3. Strange Attractor
  4. Perturbation
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