Professional Counseling Practices
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Course Introduction
Professional Counseling Practices provides an in-depth exploration of the foundational skills, theories, and ethical standards crucial to effective counseling. This course examines the counseling process from initial client contact through assessment, intervention, and evaluation, emphasizing evidence-based approaches respectful of diverse backgrounds and needs. Students will develop core competencies such as active listening, rapport building, and goal setting while reviewing relevant legal and cultural considerations. The course also covers self-care practices for counselors, professional boundaries, and the importance of ongoing supervision and professional development in maintaining best practices within counseling settings.
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Family Therapy History Theory and Practice 6th Edition by Samuel T. Gladding
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Chapter 1: The History of Family Therapy: Evolution and Revolution
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Q1) Before 1940, mental health treatment focused on:
A) families
B) groups
C) individuals
D) interpersonal issues
Answer: C
Q2) The following family therapy pioneer utilized touch and nurturing of family members, emphasizing self-esteem, compassion, and affective congruence:
A) Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
B) Virginia Satir
C) Carl Whitaker
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Q3) Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from:
A) individual problems
B) family problems
C) societal problems
D) intrapersonal problems
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) In Stage 5, Launching Children and Moving On, families typically seek family therapy due to:
A) the stresses involved with caring for multiple generations
B) a lack of social skills to establish significant relationships with others
C) frustration/anger over the marriage and/or career ambitions
D) lack of meaning or enjoyment in life
Answer: C
Q2) Family subsystems include all the following except:
A) parents
B) siblings
C) boys/men
D) spouses
Answer: C
Q3) Families may respond to change by using positive feedback loops, which are loops that:
A) promote a return to the status quo
B) promote change
C) promote appreciation for each other
D) accommodate to new situations and challenges
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) Research on families is important because it helps identify healthy family characteristics, not just pathology
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Members of healthy families often use humor, soothing comments, or changes of subject to steer difficult family conversations in positive directions. This process of redirecting difficult conversations is known as:
A) redirection
B) repair
C) relating
D) re-authoring
Answer: B
Q3) A high degree of religious/spiritual orientation is a characteristic of healthy families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Working With Single-Parent and Blended Families
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Q1) Which of the following is not a recommended educational or behavioral strategy that can help strengthen aspects of single-parent families?
A) helping family members maintain negative communication patterns
B) encouraging weekly family conferences to talk about concerns, resolve problems and plan for the future
C) linking family members to needed sources of social support (e.g., Parents Without Partners)
D) suggesting educational methods such as reading books and newsletters
Q2) The structure of most blended families initially includes
A) clear romantic and negative feelings
B) a weak couple subsystem
C) a unified parental subsystem
D) clear boundaries
Q3) A major challenge for children in blended families is:
A) identifying common interests among new step siblings
B) establishing a new identity
C) losing one's ordinal position from a previous family experience
D) creativity and innovativeness
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Chapter 5: Working With Culturally Diverse Families
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Q1) Which of the following cultural groups is high context, rather than low context as found in most North American society?
A) African American
B) Asian American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) Arab American
Q2) "WASP" values, often equated with "White" ideals, include all the following except:
A) rugged individualism
B) emphasis on honor and shame
C) mastery over nature
D) competitiveness
Q3) In African American families, _____ has been an essential element for survival.
A) an emphasis on social stability and collectivity
B) a collectivistic culture
C) a strong emphasis on self-discipline, order, social etiquette, and hierarchy
D) the family
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) Sexual relations between a therapist and a family member are never allowed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There are five primary models and resources for making ethical decisions. They include all the following except:
A) educational resources
B) professional consultation
C) action-oriented research
D) codes of ethics
Q3) Most marriage and family therapists have a
A) bachelors degree
B) masters degree
C) doctoral degree
D) medical degree
Q4) In the ethical decision making process, the first step is to consult with colleagues or an ethics case manager.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Q1) A common problem of beginning family therapists is the tendency to ask more process questions than content questions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One way therapists can inform families about the conditions under which therapy will occur is by using a(n):
A) treatment plan
B) paradox
C) clinical note
D) written professional disclosure statement
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Q3) In managed care systems, submitting written justification for treatment and comprehensive treatment plans is called:
A) utilization review
B) capitation
C) fee for service
D) care pathway guidelines
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) When treating cases of infidelity, it is important for therapists to assess for the _____ context, as this may define how a couple view unfaithfulness.
A) historical
B) cultural
C) narrative
D) self-determinism
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Q2) Because all marriages have some conflict, individual therapy is more effective than conjoint therapy
A)True
B)False
Q3) Important goals of divorce therapy would include all the following except:
A) to help build attachment and connectness
B) coping with religious or spiritual angst
C) accepting the end of the marriage
D) negotiating a reasonably equitable legal settlement
Q4) Most couples treated do not return to original levels of relationship discord.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Transgenerational Theories: Psychodynamic
Family Theory and Bowen Family Systems Theory
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Q1) The result of successful separation from your family of origin and distinguishing your rational and emotional selves is:
A) differentiation
B) emotional reactivity
C) emotional cut off
D) triangulation
Q2) Provoking family members to open up and say what is on their mind is a technique known as"
A) focusing on strengths
B) complementarity
C) family projection process
D) tickling of defenses
Q3) Differentiation is the opposite of fusion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Psychodynamic family therapy is primarily _____ in nature.
A) short term
B) action oriented
C) linear
D) systemic
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Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
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Q1) In Satir's communication roles, the _____ avoids conflict at the cost of his or her integrity.
A) blamer
B) placater
C) distracter
D) computer
Q2) There is strong research evidence for the efficacy of experiential family therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A technique in experiential family therapy in which family members are physically placed into positions symbolizing actual relationships as seen by one or more members is called:
A) sculpting
B) choreography
C) use of props
D) family reconstruction
Q4) Treatment is designed to promote family growth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) Family observational codes are used by behavioral family therapists to assess dysfunctional behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A written schedule describing terms for trading or exchanging behaviors and reinforcers between two or more individuals is known as:
A) social exchange theory
B) quid pro quo
C) teasing technique
D) contingency contract
Q3) Neil Jacobson developed the concept of 'acceptance' or loving your partner as a complete person and not focusing on differences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The 'squeeze technique' is used for treating performance anxiety.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
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Q1) This approach has a focus on:
A) the present
B) the past
C) the future
D) all of the above
Q2) The technique of changing a perception by explaining a situation from a different context is called:
A) enactment
B) pragmatic fictions
C) reframing
D) restructuring
Q3) Subsystems may include all the following except:
A) spousal
B) sibling
C) cross-generational
D) parental
Q4) If successful, structural family therapy results in more functional boundaries and more positive ways of interacting among family members.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapies
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Q1) Use of a therapeutic team within Milan systemic family therapy is cost-efficient and ineffective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Strategic family therapy has been strongly influenced by the work of:
A) Murray Bowen
B) Milton Erikson
C) David Espston
D) Virginia Satir
Q3) An example of a paradoxical technique would be:
A) homework
B) prescribing the symptom
C) positive connotation
D) positioning
Q4) Strategic family therapy works well in combination with some other therapies, but particularly with experiential and Bowen family therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
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Q1) Questions designed to reveal the meaning and importance of exceptions are called:
A) exception questions
B) unique outcomes
C) reauthoring questions
D) significance questions
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Q2) In Solution-focused therapy, _____ factors are not important.
A) causal
B) social
C) cultural
D) all of the above
Q3) In Solution-focused family therapy, all families are believed to have the resources and strengths to resolve complaints.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unlike Bowen or psychoanalytic theory, in Solution-focused family therapy virtually no attention is paid to history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) There is a well-documented association between _____ and battering.
A) fear of abandonment
B) jealousy
C) alcohol intoxication
D) all of the above
Q2) While many systemic therapy approaches work well in substance abuse situations, one approach is very cost effective and has a high success rate. This approach is:
A) Structural-strategic
B) Bowen
C) Behavioral
D) Multisystemic
Q3) Approximately half of all married couples experience physical aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most families with substance abusing members are seen in family therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) focuses on studying changes over time
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
Q2) According to research findings, participation of _____ in family therapy is much more likely to bring positive results than family therapy without their participation.
A) fathers
B) mothers
C) co-therapists
D) extended family
Q3) Match the following terms with the numbered definitions:
A) exploratory research
B) descriptive research
C) developmental research
D) experimental research
E) correlational research
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