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Q:
What lens includes the biological, individual, relational, familial, and societal levels?
a. internal family systems
b. the teleological lens
c. sequences
d. the developmental lens
e. the multicultural lens
Q:
Should state judges be selected through elections? Why or why not?
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What is one criticism of the bail system in the United States? Suggest a recommendation for fixing this.
Q:
Which of the following is not true about role playing in REBT?
a. It is a way of surfacing unfinished business.
b. It involves emotional components.
c. It involves behavioral components.
d. It helps pinpoint irrational beliefs.
e. It allows the client to work through underlying irrational beliefs.
Q:
Judges have an enormous amount of discretion in making decisions about pretrial detention. In your opinion, is this harmful or helpful for defendants? Be sure to support your answer with facts from class and the textbook.
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The existential view is based on a growth mode and conceptualizes health rather than sickness.
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The teleological lens is central to:
a. strategic family therapy.
b. Adlerian family therapy.
c. Bowenian family therapy.
d. structural family therapy.
e. all of the above
Q:
In many jurisdictions, judges are elected by the public. These elections are rarely publicized by the media. What does this imply for the election of judges? Is this a fair method for selecting judges in the United States?
Q:
Why is it important that states develop standardized court structures?
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The REBT technique that involves having clients imagine themselves in situations where they feel inappropriate feelings is called:
a. cognitive homework.
b. disputing irrational beliefs.
c. role playing.
d. shame-attacking exercises.
e. rational-emotive imagery.
Q:
Judges are typically white men with strong political connections. Do you see any problems with this in terms of fairness in sentencing?
Q:
Existential guilt is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose.
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Structural family therapy includes all of the following goals except for bringing about structural change by:
a. modifying the family's transactional rules.
b. developing more appropriate boundaries.
c. creating an effective hierarchical structure.
d. reducing symptoms of dysfunction.
e. the therapist taking a not-knowing stance with a family.
Q:
A(n) ________ is a written order or summons, issued by a law enforcement officer, often directing an alleged offender to appear in court at a specified time to answer a criminal charge.
Q:
When judge deal with political actors such as county commissioners and legislators, they act in their _______ capacity.
Q:
According to REBT, it is important to change the way one uses language because:
a. imprecise language is one of the causes of distorted thinking processes.
b. language shapes thinking and behavior.
c. language shapes feelings.
d. all of the above
e. both (a) and (b)
Q:
Martin Buber stressed the importance of presence, which allows for the creation of I/Thou relationships in therapy.
Q:
Courts that do not try criminal cases but hear appeals of decisions of lower courts are called __________ courts.
Q:
A court's _________ is the geographic territory or legal boundaries within which control maybe exercised, or the range of the court's authority.
Q:
In working with a triangulated relationship, Bowen would be inclined to place primary emphasis on:
a. joining the family.
b. engaging in personal self-disclosure to build trust.
c. maintaining a stance of neutrality.
d. siding with one member involved in the triangle.
e. identifying behavioral goals to guide the therapy.
Q:
Which of the following REBT techniques helps a client gradually learn to deal with anxiety and challenge basic irrational thinking?
a. changing one's language
b. cognitive homework
c. dream analysis
d. skill training
e. assertiveness training
Q:
A(n) __________ election is an election in which candidates' party affiliations are not listed on the ballot.
Q:
__________ is a reform plan in which judges are nominated by a commission and appointed by the governor for a given period.
Q:
____________ occurs when a defendant is held for trial based on a judge's finding that if the defendant were released on bail, he or she would flee or would endanger another person or the community.
Q:
This approach puts emphasis on the therapist as a person and the quality of the client/therapist
relationship as one of the prime factors in determining the outcomes of therapy.
Q:
A couple directs the focus of their energy toward a problematic son as a way to avoid facing or dealing with their own conflicts. This is an example of:
a. enmeshment.
b. normal love.
c. displacement.
d. triangulation.
e. diffusion.
Q:
Which of the following is true about the relationship between a client and a rational emotive behavior therapist?
a. Therapists make value judgments in helping their clients gain insight.
b. It is characterized by full acceptance and tolerance.
c. Personal warmth is considered to be very important.
d. The therapist assumes a nondirective stance.
e. Transference is encouraged to develop.
Q:
Trial courts have ________ jurisdiction over misdemeanor cases and preliminary matters in felony cases.
Q:
A major criticism of the existential approach is that it lacks a systematic statement of the principles and practices of psychotherapy.
Q:
Bail will be _________ if the defendant does not appear in court.
Q:
The amount of money specified by a judge to be paid as a condition of pretrial release is called ____________________.
Q:
Which approach asserts that emotional fusion to one's family must be addressed if one hopes to achieve a mature and unique personality?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. Adlerian family therapy
c. social constructionism
d. strategic family therapy
e. solution-oriented therapy
Q:
In REBT, what method is taught to clients to help them challenge irrational beliefs?
a. autogenic method
b. disputational method
c. self-management method
d. phenomenological method
e. multimodal method
Q:
Defendants state their pleas (guilty or not guilty) at the ____________________.
Q:
The ____________________ makes the decision about whether to file charges for particular crimes and offenders.
Q:
According to the existential view, death makes life meaningless.
Q:
The facts upholding the belief that a crime has been committed constitute ____________________.
Q:
Prospective judges receive special training in law school to become professional judges in an _______________.
Q:
Which approach assumes that a family can best be understood when it is analyzed from at least a three-generational perspective?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. human validation process model
c. social constructionism
d. strategic family therapy
e. experiential/symbolic family therapy
Q:
When judges take on the role of ____________________, they are concerned with how their courtroom is running.
Q:
An REBT therapist would contend that anxiety stems from:
a. unresolved issues of the past.
b. inadequate ego-defense mechanisms.
c. the internal repetition of irrational sentences.
d. a normal human condition that should be accepted.
e. none of the above
Q:
When judges work with attorneys outside of the public view, they usually take on the role of ____________________.
Q:
Existentialists claim that the use of specific techniques is the cornerstone of the approach.
Q:
What lens is primarily concerned with assessing a family's typical day and the routines support their daily living?
a. the organization lens
b. the teleological lens
c. sequences
d. the developmental lens
e. internal family systems
Q:
When a judge oversees the "contest" between the defense attorney and the prosecutor, he or she takes on the role of ____________________.
Q:
In a(n) ___________ election, judges are openly endorsed by political parties.
Q:
According to Ellis, we develop emotional and behavioral difficulties because:
a. we think of simple preferences as dire needs.
b. we live by the values our parents gave us.
c. we refuse to deal with unfinished business.
d. we have learned maladaptive behaviors.
e. we do not possess any self-actualizing tendencies.
Q:
The existential therapist sees no basis for counseling and therapy without recognition of the freedom and responsibility each person possesses.
Q:
Which of the following lenses addresses the family's goals?
a. sequences
b. the teleological lens
c. internal family systems
d. the organization lens
e. the developmental lens
Q:
The ____________________ system involves an active judge.
Q:
Judges have three major roles: adjudicator, negotiator, and _________.
Q:
Which of the following is the correct order of the three phases of Meichenbaum's stress-inoculation program?
a. conceptual-application-rehearsal
b. application-conceptual-rehearsal
c. application-rehearsal-conceptual
d. rehearsal-conceptual-application
e. conceptual-rehearsal-application
Q:
Existential anxiety is seen as a function of our acceptance of our aloneness.
Q:
A problem with state courts is the overlapping and conflicting ____________________.
Q:
Courts that do not try criminal cases but hear appeals are called ____________________ courts.
Q:
The United States has a ____________________ court system with separate federal and state court systems.
Q:
The major focus of family therapy is:
a. brief treatment.
b. the family's present interactions.
c. how current family relationships maintain systems.
d. facilitating change.
e. all of the above.
Q:
Holding a defendant for trial, for fear that if the defendant were released on bail he or she might endanger another person or the community, is referred to as
a. a citation.
b. bail.
c. release on recognizance.
d. preventive detention.
Q:
According to Meichenbaum, behavioral change:
a. occurs as a result of a three-phase change process.
b. occurs strictly as a result of starting a new internal dialogue.
c. will come about if clients are simply taught more effective coping skills.
d. begins with self-observation.
e. both (a) and (d)
Q:
A written order or summons, issued by a law enforcement, often directing an alleged offender to appear in court at a specified time to answer a criminal charge is called a
a. citation.
b. summons.
c. warrant.
d. preventive assumption.
Q:
From the existential viewpoint, anxiety is seen as a neurotic manifestation; thus the aim of therapy is to eliminate anxiety so clients can live comfortably.
Q:
A major contribution of Whitaker's approach to family therapy is:
a. birth order as a determinant of personality.
b. differentiation of the self.
c. genogram work.
d. spontaneity, creativity, and play as therapeutic factors in family therapy.
e. none of the above
Q:
U.S. district courts are often referred to as ______ courts.
a. appeals
b. country
c. state supreme
d. trial
Q:
Brady has just been charged with murder in the first degree. His previous record includes several drug charges and a sexual assault that is pending. Brady will not be released on bail. His attorney believes the prosecutor and judge will agree to a 20-year sentence through a plea bargain, which will eliminate the chance of a life sentence.
Brady will not be released on bail and will await his trial in jail. His lawyer's request for bail was turned down because
a. Brady has no family locally.
b. of the murder charge.
c. Brady is not parole eligible.
d. Brady could not post bail.
Q:
Beck's cognitive therapy involves:
a. helping clients recognize and discard self defeating thinking.
b. looking at a client's "internal dialogue."
c. correcting erroneous beliefs.
d. all of the above
e. all but (b)
Q:
According to existential thinking, effective therapy does not stop with awareness, for clients are challenged to take action based on their insights.
Q:
Brady has just been charged with murder in the first degree. His previous record includes several drug charges and a sexual assault that is pending. Brady will not be released on bail. His attorney believes the prosecutor and judge will agree to a 20-year sentence through a plea bargain, which will eliminate the chance of a life sentence.
Brady will await his trial or plea agreement in jail. Which is a characteristic of those he is serving time with?
a. They are serving a sentence of more than one year.
b. Fellow inmates have not been offered bail.
c. They have all been sentenced.
d. Waiting trial at a federal court.
Q:
Brady has just been charged with murder in the first degree. His previous record includes several drug charges and a sexual assault that is pending. Brady will not be released on bail. His attorney believes the prosecutor and judge will agree to a 20-year sentence through a plea bargain, which will eliminate the chance of a life sentence.
Brady will not be released on bail and will await his trial
a. on house arrest.
b. on preventive detention.
c. on parole.
d. in prison.
Q:
The techniques of joining, accommodating, unbalancing, tracking, and boundary making would be most likely to be part of which approach to family therapy?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. Adlerian family therapy
c. structural family therapy
d. strategic family therapy
e. experiential/symbolic family therapy
Q:
A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is:
a. its use of the A-B-C theory in analyzing the client.
b. its use of behavioral techniques.
c. its applicability to group work.
d. its systematic exposition of irrational beliefs that result in emotional and behavioral disturbance.
e. both (a) and (d)
Q:
Katie has been charged with armed robbery. The judge has set her bail at $250,000. She is currently in jail awaiting a family member to raise her bail. This is Katie's first offense. She claims that she was forced to commit the crime because she could not pay her rent. Katie's lawyer files a request to suppress certain details of Katie's alleged involvement in the robbery. The lawyer's request came in the form of a
a. bench statement
b. motion
c. hearing
d. disposition
Q:
Existential therapists strive to be their authentic selves when working with clients.
Q:
Which approach to family therapy contends that one's current family problems will not significantly change until relationship patterns in one's family of origin are understood and directly challenged?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. human validation process model
c. structural family therapy
d. strategic family therapy
Q:
Katie has been charged with armed robbery. The judge has set her bail at $250,000. She is currently in jail awaiting a family member to raise her bail. This is Katie's first offense. She claims that she was forced to commit the crime because she could not pay her rent. The judge in Katie's case determined her bail amount based on
a. cash bonds.
b. bail funds.
c. detention guidelines.
d. bail guidelines.
Q:
Katie has been charged with armed robbery. The judge has set her bail at $250,000. She is currently in jail awaiting a family member to raise her bail. This is Katie's first offense. She claims that she was forced to commit the crime because she could not pay her rent. Until Katie's family raises her bail, she will remain
a. in prison.
b. in jail.
c. on probation.
d. on parole
Q:
Katie has been charged with armed robbery. The judge has set her bail at $250,000. She is currently in jail awaiting a family member to raise her bail. This is Katie's first offense. She claims that she was forced to commit the crime because she could not pay her rent. Katie's family most likely would have to consult a _________ in order to post her bond.
a. bond hearing
b. bail bondsman
c. bail enforcer
d. bond guard
Q:
Cognitive restructuring plays an important role in whose approach to therapy?
a. Albert Ellis
b. Donald Meichenbaum
c. A. T. Beck
d. all of the above
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In the existential approach, techniques are primary, while subjective understanding of clients is secondary.
Q:
Katie has been charged with armed robbery. The judge has set her bail at $250,000. She is currently in jail awaiting a family member to raise her bail. This is Katie's first offense. She claims that she was forced to commit the crime because she could not pay her rent. Katie was charged with armed robbery at which point during the pretrial process?
a. Arrest
b. Booking
c. Arraignment
d. Disposition
Q:
Triangles in family relationships can best be explained as __________:
a. reducing anxiety and emotional tension in relationships.
b. a method of disengagement.
c. a method of becoming enmeshed.
d. an attempt to develop intimacy.