Chapter 8 Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Couple and Family Therapies

Chapter 8  Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Couple and Family Therapies

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

Of the behavioral and cognitive-behavioral couple and family therapies, which one is a scientifically-based approach to couple therapy based on 30 years of research on the key differences between happy and unhappy marriages?
Cognitive-behavioral family therapy
Integrative behavioral couples therapy
Gottman method couple therapy
Functional family therapy

ANS: C
REF: Lay of the Land (p. 275-276)

In general in the mental health field, which therapies are some of the most commonly used therapeutic approaches?
Systemic therapies
Cognitive-behavioral therapies
Experiential therapies
Psychoanalytic family therapies

ANS: B
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

Cognitive-behavioral family therapies have had the greatest influence in which area?
Parenting
Couples dynamics
Individual pathology
Attachment

ANS: A
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

Reinforcement refers to which of the following?
Implementing boundaries
Rewarding a client to make the therapeutic process more enjoyable and easy for the therapist
Using punishment to force clients to adapt to the way the therapist thinks they should be living their lives
How positive or negative responses from the environment shape future behaviors

ANS: D
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

Reinforcement is typically only effective if parents are __________.
cordial
authoritarian
consistent
emotionally involved

ANS: C
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

Rather than use a general goal such as “improve communication,” cognitive-behavioral family therapists identify which behaviors and thoughts for interventions?
All
Specific
Problematic
Easy

ANS: B
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

What is the role of the therapist in CBFT?
Friend
Equal
Expert
Advisor

ANS: C
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 278)

Why do cognitive-behavioral family therapists use empathy to build the therapeutic alliance?
To create rapport, allowing therapists to get to the “real” interventions of therapy
Because empathy is a curative process in and of itself
To “integrate” experiential concepts to make better therapy
To manipulate clients into feeling more comfortable with the therapy process

ANS: A
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 278)

What is the primary reason CBFT therapists use contracts?
To make sure the client comes to therapy consistently and pays on time
To trick the client into thinking that something is required so they will work harder and take therapy seriously
To force the client to work on the behaviors they want to target
To give the client a sense of commitment to the process as well as motivate them

ANS: D
REF: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 279)