PSY 580 Foundations for Marriage and Family Therapy Spring 2023 Exam Instructio

PSY 580 Foundations for Marriage and Family Therapy Spring 2023 Exam
Instructions:
This open-book exam is based on the family featured in the film “Ordinary People.” Please read through the questions carefully to make sure that your answers address every part of the question. Answer all six questions. Please be sure to use both (1) details from the film as well as (2) the required reading for the course to support every answer. For your information, the film is available on Amazon Prime.
Formatting. Do not retype the questions. Instead, simply use the numbers to show which question you’re answering.Your answers need to be 12-pt font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. The minimum acceptable length of each question response should be two pages; the maximum should be four pages. No title page is necessary. No cited works list is necessary.
Citations. In-text citations should use the following format: “According to Wetchler & Hecker (2015, chapter 11), […]” or “In her article titled “Outside the box: Bringing families into trauma treatment” (2014), Mary Jo Barrett describes…[…].” Make sure your citations are referring to something that can be located in the text, not just vague, sweeping reference(include page number)
Succinctly present the case. In your narrative, consider the following prompts as a guide:
Who do you think, in your clinical opinion, would benefit from treatment? Explain your choice.
What are the circumstances that bring these particular clients into therapy?
How were these clients most likely referred to you? Make up the information if you need to.
What are the primary treatment concerns of this family? If you can think of any specific symptoms, add those here.
Drawing upon the course, which systemic treatment approach do you recommend (experiential, transgenerational, language-based)? Drawing upon what you learned in the readings and the classroom, provide a rationale for said approach.
Consider the challenges that this family might present for you personally (as in self-of-the-therapist). Please describe one aspect of this case that might require additional supervision in order for you to still do your best work.
If, in your clinical opinion, you had to make additional referrals for this family, who do you think would benefit from other types of treatment and why? What kind of treatment?
Provide an in-depth narrative risk assessment. Be sure to consider family strengths/protective factors as well as risk factors when determining risk to self or others.
Considering the systemic practice techniques we learned in class (collaborative games, like a marble run or Jenga with questions for each block removed; genogram work; relational map exercise; Five Best Decisions; Tree of Life, letter-writing, scaling questions, timeline, bandwidth exercise), which one do you think might be most appropriate to use for this family? Explain why it’s appropriate in this case and how this family would benefit.
Drawing upon what you learned in the readings and the classroom, explain how a relational/systemic treatment approach (couple or family) might lead to a different outcome than an individual approach like the one portrayed in the film. Be sure to describe the outcome in each case (systemic vs. individual).
Required References:
Textbook is : An introduction to marriage and family therapy, 2nd edition, chapters 1,2,3,7,8, 10 and 11.
Book: “US: Getting Past You and Me to build a more loving relationship”, by Terrence Real (2022), New York: Rosalie Books, chapters 2 & 3 only.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) -Dr. Burke-Harris TED talk on ACES and review the ACE assessment
“Outside of the Box” Bringing Families into Trauma Treatment , Mary Jo Barrett psychotherapy networker magazine
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, “ From Knowing to Doing:Guidelines For Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapist”
Knutson-Martin and McDowell