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1. In family therapy, geographically distant family members can play an important role in substance abuse treatment and need to be brought into the therapeutic process despite geographical distance.
A. True
B. False
2. Which of the following may be considered family for the purposes of therapy?
A. Anyone who is instrumental in providing support.
B. Anyone who is instrumental in maintaining the household.
C. Anyone who is instrumental in providing financial resources.
D. All of the above.
3. Which of the following is the main purpose for family therapy in substance abuse treatment?
A. It seeks to use family’s strengths and resources to help find or develop ways to live without substances of abuse.
B. It ameliorates the impact of chemical dependency on both the IP and the family.
C. Both (A) and (B) are main purposes for family therapy in substance abuse treatment.
D. None of the above.
4. Home-based therapy breaks from the traditional clinical setting, reasoning that joining the family where it lives can help overcome shame, stigma, and resistance.
A. True
B. False
5. Which of the following family therapy models, used as the base for treatment and specific interventions for substance abuse, is based on the idea that maladaptive behaviors, including substance use and abuse, are reinforced through family interactions?
A. The family systems model
B. Cognitive-behavioral approaches
C. The family disease model
D. Multidimensional family therapy
6. Family therapy answers which of the following questions?
A. Why should children or adolescents be involved in the treatment of a parent who abuses substances?
B. What impact does a parent abusing substances have on his or her children?
C. How does adolescent substance abuse impact adults?
D. All of the above.
7. Whether a child or adult is the family member who uses substances, the entire family system needs to change, not just the IP.
A. True
B. False
8. Family therapy helps:
A. The family make interpersonal, intrapersonal, and environmental changes affecting the person using alcohol or drugs.
B. The nonusing members to work together more effectively and to define personal goals for therapy beyond a vague notion of improved family functioning.
C. All family members understand what is occurring.
D. All of the above.
9. The single most potent risk factor of future maladaption, predisposition to substance use, and psychological difficulties is:
A. A parent’s substance-abusing behavior.
B. A sibling’s substance-abusing behavior.
C. Heavy peer pressure to use and abuse drugs.
D. All of the above.
10. Chronic diseases and substance abuse share all of the following similarities, except for:
A. They are long-standing and progressive.
B. They often result from behavioral choices.
C. They are treatable and curable.
D. They have high probability of relapse.
11. Family therapy may be especially effective for someone whose drug use has caused significant organic brain damage.
A. True
B. False
12. Family therapy treatments for substance abuse must be designed to be relatively brief and to target aspects of the family’s environment that may be maintaining the drug abuse symptomatology.
A. True
B. False
13. The need for cultural competence implies that a therapist must belong to the same cultural group as the client family.
A. True
B. False
14. Which of the following levels of recovery is a time when clients must cope with problems revolving around the cessation of substance use?
A. Dry abstinence
B. Sobriety / early recovery
C. Advanced recovery
D. Adjustment to sobriety
15. Family therapy should only be used when one family member is not being terrorized by another.
A. True
B. False
16. In families with the _____ characteristic pattern of interaction, the only way to get attention or enliven the situation is to create a crisis.
A. Parental inconsistency
B. Negativism
C. Miscarried expression of anger
D. Unrealistic parental expectations
17. All of the following apply to a person with no immediate family, except for:
A. Family therapy should not automatically be ruled out.
B. A single person who abuses substances may continue to have an impact on distant family members who may be willing to take part in family therapy.
C. Just as important as how family members interact with each other, is how many family members are present.
D. If family members come from a distance, intensive session of more than 2 hours may be needed and helpful.
18. Codependent people are thought to have all of the following patterns of behavior, except for:
A. They are controlling because they believe that others are incapable of taking care of themselves.
B. Although they typically have high self-esteem they have a tendency to deny their own feelings.
C. They are excessively compliant, compromising their own values and integrity to avoid rejection or anger.
D. They often react in an oversensitive manner, as they are often hypervigilant to disruption, troubles, or disappointments.
19. Sibling relationships characterized by _____ can protect adolescents against substance abuse.
A. Mutual attachment
B. Nurturance
C. Lack of conflict
D. All of the above
20. In many families that include adolescents who abuse substances, at least one parent also abuses substances.
A. True
B. False
21. In substance abuse treatment, all of the following apply to denial, except for:
A. It is a deliberate, willful act on the part of the person who is abusing substances.
B. It is a common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem.
C. It is a complex reaction that is the product of psychological and physiological factors, especially those concerned with memory and the influence of euphoria produced by the substance of abuse.
D. All of the above apply to denial.
22. Even if clinicians treat individual clients, or their families, at their actual stage of readiness or level of motivation to change, they will still encounter significant client resistance due to the disease of addiction.
A. True
B. False
23. Feminist and cultural family therapists caution that by ignoring the power differentials within and between cultures, therapists can potentially harm the client and family.
A. True
B. False
24. While the specific barriers the provider will encounter will vary for clients in different treatment settings, which of the following is an essential topic to review for appropriate interventions?
A. Family motivation / influence
B. Balance of hierarchal power
C. General willingness for the family and its members to change
D. All of the above
25. Along the same idea as 12-Step programs, it is desirable to cast a person abusing substances as a totally powerless entity.
A. True
B. False
26. Research has shown the confrontational approach with substance abusing clients to be the most effective method for getting clients to overcome denial.
A. True
B. False
27. All of the following are goals of behavioral contracting therapy, except for:
A. Identify and address the family’s problems as family problems.
B. Help everyone in the family achieve appropriate responsibility for self and decrease inappropriate responsibility for others.
C. Develop a substance-free environment.
D. Help families cope with the emotional distress that the removal of substance abuse can cause.
28. The initial goal of multisystemic therapy is to:
A. Engage family members and, if necessary, to identify barriers to engagement and develop strategies for overcoming those barriers.
B. Understand specific problems in a real-world context.
C. Examine the strengths and needs of each system and their relationship to the identified problem.
D. Address risk and protective factors as they impact the family from a range of sources.
29. Which of the following is a strategy or technique under the Wegscheider-Cruse’s theory?
A. Educate every family member about the disease.
B. Break through the family’s denial.
C. Confront any crisis.
D. All of the above.
30. When boundaries are too weak, family members can become psychologically and emotionally enmeshed and lose their ability to act as individuals.
A. True
B. False
31. Families that have members who abuse substances are more likely to show an excess of flexibility, rather than a lack of flexibility.
A. True
B. False
32. One of the basic techniques of structural family therapy is to:
A. Identify and adjust to the family’s way of relating to each other, which will make resistance less likely.
B. Show respect to each person by virtue of their family role.
C. Mark boundaries so that each member of the family can be responsible for him- or herself while respecting the individuality of others.
D. All of the above.
33. One of the ways to make respectful individuation possible is to make the family aware when a family member:
A. Speaks about, rather than to, another person who is present.
B. Speaks for others, instead of letting them speak for themselves.
C. Sends nonverbal cues to influence or stop another person from speaking.
D. All of the above.
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