Selvini Palazzoli's technique of ascribing positive motives to family behavior in order to promote family cohesion and avoid resistance to therapy is known as:

a. ordeal therapy
b. mystification
c. pretend technique
d. positive connotation


D

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with what is good or desirable.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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What type of micro-level intervention focuses on immediate measures to save a client’s life?

a. Restorative model b. Cognitive behavioral intervention c. Fight or flight model d. Crisis intervention

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Proponents of the second-order family therapy perspective believe that the appropriate focus of therapy is on which of the following?

a. Systemic understanding b. Meanings embedded in language c. Patterns of social organization d. Family structure

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tools are used as part of the assessment process, socially just practice would dictate that they are ______.

a. approved by all members and have been used/validated for groups with demographics identified as important by group members b. administered exclusively by the worker or someone else who has expertise in that area c. used only to identify group needs or characteristics d. used exclusively to identify individual needs or characteristics

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