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Structural Family Therapy was designed to
- A. Support contemporary families at Levels 1 and 2
- B. Meet the needs of troubled inner city youth
- C. Is exclusively for low-income families
- D. Help impose boundaries on families
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: SFT was developed by Minuchin to address youth behavioral issues in urban settings.
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As the registered nurse in the emergency department, you are taking care of an adolescent client who had just fractured their femur during gymnasium class at their high school. After casting, you will be discharging the client with crutches. Which of the following client goals that is paired with its learning domain should be included in the patient teaching plan for this client and the parents?
- A. Psychomotor domain: The client will slightly bend their elbows when holding the hand grips.
- B. Psychomotor domain: The client will rest their weight on the padded areas on the top of the crutches.
- C. Cognitive domain: The client will slightly bend their elbows when holding the hand grips.
- D. Cognitive domain: The nurse will tell the client how often the tips on the crutches must be replaced.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Psychomotor domain (A) involves physical skills like crutch use.
The child's ability to understand time sequence develops during
- A. Sensorimotor
- B. Preoperational
- C. Concrete operational
- D. Formal operational
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Time sequencing matures in the concrete operational stage with logical thinking (Piaget).
The Montessori approach believes materials should be
- A. Teacher-provided
- B. Child-selected
- C. Standardized
- D. Simple
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Montessori materials are child-selected to encourage autonomy.
Using the strategic approach with a family in therapy, the therapist would:
- A. Try to change family principles that may be promoting dysfunctional behavior patterns.
- B. Strive to create change in destructive behavior through improvement in communication and interaction patterns.
- C. Encourage increase in the differentiation of individual family members.
- D. Promote change in dysfunctional behavior by encouraging the formation of more diffuse boundaries between family members.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The correct answer is A because in the strategic approach, therapists focus on changing the underlying principles within the family system that contribute to dysfunctional behavior patterns. By addressing these core beliefs and principles, therapists aim to create lasting change in the family dynamics.
Incorrect choices:
B: While improving communication and interaction patterns is important in family therapy, it is not the primary focus of the strategic approach.
C: Increasing the differentiation of individual family members is more aligned with structural family therapy, not the strategic approach.
D: Promoting more diffuse boundaries between family members may lead to further dysfunction rather than resolving it in the strategic approach.
The theorist who believes in collective unconscious is
- A. Sigmund Freud
- B. Carl Jung
- C. Abraham Maslow
- D. Erik Erikson
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Carl Jung introduced the collective unconscious, a shared reservoir of archetypal experiences.