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How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? - correct answer - Changing
social dynamics after WWII
- family roles became less predictable and options for individuals increased creating
more interpersonal tension
- divorce rates increased
- the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that made it difficult for
the family to cope as a system
- became more accepting of professional help
- some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems could be better
resolved within the context of the family
Goldenberg & Goldenberg five factors that contributed to the evolution of family therapy.
- correct answer 1) the extension of psychological treatment, eventually including work
with whole families.
2) the introduction of general systems theory
3) The investigation of the family's role in the development of schizophrenia in one of its
members
4) The development of the fields of child guidance and marital counseling.
5) The increased interest in clinical techniques such as group therapy
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of psychology? -
correct answer Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards family
therapy models? - correct answer Clinicians discovered the powerful influence of the
family on treatment outcomes and identified problems that seemed more likely to be
resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed to the growth of
family therapy models? - correct answer - clinical and research developments in
hospital psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
Who founded psychoanalysis? - correct answer Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? - correct answer Freud's theory about the individual as he/she
negotiated the stages of psychosexual development. The theory focuses on individuals
but acknowledges the importance of the family.
, Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone other than the patient
would contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into the causes of
schizophrenia during the 1950s? - correct answer 1) When the patients got better,
someone else in the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often deteriorated when they
returned home.
General Systems Theory - correct answer Researchers were discovering that a whole
group has properties and characteristics that emerge from the group itself, beyond
those of its individual members. Once working with families, this concept became
equally applicable
Who initiated the Child Guidance Movement? - correct answer Alfred Adler in the early
1900s
Alfred Adler Concepts - correct answer - Broadened the understanding of psychological
problems from a intrapsychic view to include the social context
- First to believe that treating children might be the best way to prevent the development
of mental problems
- Found that people were motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority
- Behavior is consistent with a person's style of life which could be functional or
dysfunctional
In the US, who founded Family Counseling Centers in the 1920s? - correct answer
Rudolf Dreikurs, Adler's associate, which extended Adler's child guidance approach.
Eventually, child guidance workers concluded that the real problem was not the child,
but the tensions in the family itself.
With their understanding of the importance of the familial and social context, there was
persistent tendency to treat the parents, usually the mothers, separate from their
children.
Who opened the first Marriage Counseling Center in NYC in 1929? - correct answer
Abraham and Hannah Stone
Who founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast in 1930? -
correct answer Paul Popenoe
Who began the Marriage Council of Philadelphia in 1932? - correct answer Emily Mudd
Who helped found the American Association of Marriage Counselors in 1941? - correct
answer Emily Mudd
What year was the American Association of Marriage Counselors renamed to AAMFT?
- correct answer 1979, Emily Mudd
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