Important Questions for IGNOU MSCCFT MCFTE001 Exam with Main Points for Answer - Unit 2

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Unit 2. Essential Skills for Family Assessment


1. Name 3 kinds of assessment skills / Describe some of the assessment skills a counsellor/family therapist should have.

Three kinds of assessment skills are:

  • Conceptual skills 
    • Family Life Cycle
    • Hypothesis Formulation
    • Interpersonal Definition of Problem
  • Perceptual skills
    • Recognizing Coalition Messages
  • Behavioural skills
    • Genogram
    • Displaying Neutrality
    • Supporting Family Strengths
    • Clarifying Interaction Patterns
    • Using Circular Questions
    • Stopping Clients from Talking
    • Staying in Present
    • Validating the Family’s reality
    • Preserving Continuity Across Sessions
    • Coaching Clients to Speak More Openly
    • Asking Future-Oriented Questions


2. Name 5 behavioural skills a counsellor/family therapist should have.

Behavioural skills a counsellor/family therapist should have are: 

  1. Displaying neutrality 
  2. Supporting family strengths 
  3. Clarifying interaction patterns 
  4. Using circular questions
  5. Stopping clients from talking 
  6. Staying in the present
  7. Preserving continuity across sessions 
  8. Validating families’ reality
  9. Coaching clients on how to speak more openly 
  10. Asking future oriented questions


3. How should a session be terminated?

When therapy sessions become anxiety-provoking to the clients, terminating it with a brief summary using positive reframing and validation can serve to reduce the anxiety of family members.


4. What are some examples of when other types of adjunct treatments are required?

Adjunct treatments are required when:

  • a child or adult requires a psychiatric evaluation
  • an individual requires individual therapy.


6. What are the situations in family and marital counselling/therapy when individual or concurrent sessions may be held?

  • In Marital Therapy, when the distress is so high that it may lead to escalation and causing hurt.
  • In Family Therapy, when there is an adolescent involved.
  • In Family Therapy, concurrent sessions can be held for dyads whose relationship needs to be strengthened.
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