Anne Arundel Community College Addiction Counseling Family Therapies Questions
2.Answer the following.Stay away from yes or no.
Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy don’t focus on the affective area.How does this limit the usefulness of this approach?
What types of problems might be best suited for these approaches?
Give one example each of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement.
List and describe 3 behavioral techniques you would use as a family therapist to teach parents to use with children.
3.For the following case, you will be answering questions as they relate to Structural Family Therapy:
J. was a 15 y.o. boy who first encountered mental health treatment after he admitted to his parents that he had thoughts of hurting himself.He had been caught smoking cigarettes in his room at home by his stepfather and in the verbal altercation that followed, J. told his mother and stepfather that he “didn’t care anymore and wanted to die.”J.s stepfather became very angry and threw him out of the house for being disrespectful and untrustworthy.The mother then became enraged at her husband and told her husband that if he kicks out J, she is going, too.
J. admitted to feeling depressed for several months prior to this episode.He wanted to be an actor and said that he did not the point of studying or going to school.Although he did well academically in the 9th and 10th grade, his grades declined significantly in 11th grade to the point that he was ineligible to participate in extracurricular activities like the drama club.He admitted to having difficulty fitting in and was associating with the kids who skipped class and took drugs.J’s depressive symptoms included sad mood, decreased motivation, decreased energy, decreased concentration, and sleep difficulty.After breaking up with his girlfriend, he cut himself superficially on his forearm with a razor and had fleeting thoughts of suicide.
Following the incident with J’s stepfather, mom called a counseling center asking for help.Remember to answer the following questions from Structural Family Therapy viewpoint:
- What do you think is the problem as described by mom?
- What subsystems do you see?
- How would you describe the boundaries?
- Who in this family has the power?
- Assuming the therapy was successful, how would this family appear?
4.How does the therapy of Solution-Oriented-Family Therapy differ from the other therapies we have discussed?
Discuss 3 of the techniques used in this theory and how each one facilitates change/client improvement.
5.Write the definitions of the survival roles in Chemical Dependency.
