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81) The family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication is called a. structural family therapy. b. structural family intervention. c. strategic group intervention. d. strategic family intervention. 82) A strategic family therapist who instructs a family to have dinner together each night and discuss their everyday activities openly with each other has used a(n) _______________ as a therapeutic approach. a. paradoxical request b. directive c. immersion method d. exposure technique 83) _______ refers to a treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in everyday family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions. a. Structural family therapy b. Structural family intervention c. Strategic group intervention d. Strategic family intervention 84) In family therapy, a therapist seeks to understand a. why some families seem to experience more problems than others. b. how family members can help someone with a psychological disorder live a productive life. c. how family member interactions lead to personal problems and difficulties. d. how a person’s psychological disorder creates stress for those who love him or her. 85) Family counselling is a form of ______ therapy a. informal b. insight c. group d. organic 86) John and his wife are having trouble communicating and getting along with one another. Which type of therapy is most likely to help them with their problems? a. Organic b. Self-help group c. Family d. Individual 87) Saleem has been seeing a therapist because she cannot adjust to her new husband’s children from a previous marriage. Although she dearly loves her husband, she feels awkward and embarrassed in front of the children. The therapist suggests that she bring her husband and his children with her to the next session so she can see them interact. Saleem is probably seeing a a. psychoanalyst. b. behavioural specialist. c. family therapist. d. gestalt therapist. 88) A goal of family therapy is to a. change the needs of individual family members. b. improve family communication and interaction. c. identify and treat the person in the family who is the source of the majority of the family’s problems. d. teach family members to remain neutral on sensitive issues. 89) Someone who is conducting family therapy would be most likely to attempt to understand a. family communication patterns. b. why family history makes some people more or less vulnerable to psychological problems. c. an individual’s thoughts and feelings about their family. d. parental impacts on children’s adaptive or maladaptive functioning. 90) Structural family therapy is intended to ________________ whereas strategic family interventions are designed to ________________. a. identify the scapegoat and structure all of the family’s complaints; focus all complaints around the problems of one individual. b. treat the family as a group unit that needs help; provide treatment for each family member individually. c. make changes in how the family interacts; remove barriers to effective communication within a family. d. examine how problems arise due to hierarchies in a family; help families cope specifically with addictions issues.