MFT

Classical Conditioning: correct answer: A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a laboratory or other controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned stimulus (US) which naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired with a neutral stimulus that does not initially elicit a response. Through the repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus (now the conditioned stimulus - CS) begins to elicit the desired response (now the conditioned response - CR). Coercion (...

Classical Conditioning: correct answer: A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a laboratory or other controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned stimulus (US) which naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired with a neutral stimulus that does not initially elicit a response. Through the repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus (now the conditioned stimulus - CS) begins to elicit the desired response (now the conditioned response - CR). Coercion (...

ABC-X Family Crisis Model correct answer: Rueben Hill's model used to explain whether or not a stressful event would result in crisis in some families but not in other's. A=stressor B=family's crisis- meeting resources C=family's definition of the stressor X=the crisis Accomodation correct answer: Describes a variety of engagement techniques such as joining, used principally by Structural Family Therapists in which the therapist adapts themselves to the family's style of interactin...

Ignorance of the law is an acceptable legal defense for injuring clients. correct answer: False Clients have the right to sue their clinician for abandonment. correct answer: True A client is legally entitled to adequate information from the therapist before the client provides consent to treat. correct answer: True Clinicians should take additional steps if necessary to insure a client's comprehension of the informed consent contract. correct answer: True Couples should be info...

A young woman comes to therapy alone. She has been dating a man for almost a year and they recently began having sexual relations. Although the woman is sexually aroused during intercourse, she is unable to achieve orgasm through either intercourse or clitoral stimulation. The woman says that, while this is her first experience with intercourse, she has masturbated to orgasm several times. In treating the woman a therapist using Masters and Johnson's approach to sex therapy is most likely to re...

Systemic bias correct answer: Involves bias information processing in which a person selectively attends to one aspect of reality while discounting other aspects Facticious disorder correct answer: Characterized by the voluntary production of physical or psychological symptoms, the abscense of external incentives, and the compulsive psychological need to assume the "patient role" Family life cycles correct answer: Between families: children learn to individuate from their family and b...