Course Evaluation and Quiz

Course Title:  DL: Domestic Violence and Attachment Theory

Course Approval Number: SON011-009 (MCEP); PCE 1999 (MFT & LCSW)

Instructor: Daniel Jay Sonkin, Ph.D., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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1. What is your professional status?

Licensed psychologist

LCSW

MFT

Student

Unlicensed masters or doctoral level

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2. What was your primary reason for selecting this course?

Subject was interesting

Reputation of leader(s)

Recommended by colleague

Important to job activities

Required by law/regulations

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3.  Overall, how helpful do you think this 8 hour workshop will be to your clinical work?

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Very helpful

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4.  How much did this 8 hour workshop expand your knowledge of domestic violence?

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5. How much did this 8 hour workshop add to your knowledge of attachment theory?

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6.  Did you take advantage of the opportunity to interact with Dr. Sonkin?

Yes

No

If yes, did you find it helpful? 

Yes  

No

7. If you did not make use of the interactive part of the program, why didn't you ask Dr. Sonkin questions (select the answer that best describes your reason)?

The information was clear enough

I don't like using email

I didn't have any questions

The links didn't work with my computer

I'd like to digest the material before contacting him

8. How would you rate you instructor's knowledge?

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9. How would you rate your instructor's teaching ability?

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10. To what degree was this course both consistent with and met its stated goals and objectives.

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11. Overall, how would you rate the value of this program?

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12. Would you take another online workshop with Dr. Sonkin?

Yes  

No

13. Is it ok to contact you of future online offerings? 

Yes  

No

14. Comments / Suggestions for improvement:

 

Instructions: Check the most correct answer for each question.

1.  Two of the goals of assessment process are to procure appropriate authorizations to release information and assess for typology and diagnosis.

True

False

2.    Although there is no mandate to report adult domestic violence (unless you work in a medical facility; Penal Code 11160-11163.5), there are a number a legal and ethical issues that therapists should be aware of when identifying cases involving domestic violence.

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False

3.  Research suggests that there is a no overlap between domestic violence and child physical abuse.

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False

4. Very few children are aware of or witness violence between their parents.

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False

5. California law makes a distinction between mental suffering (PC: 11165.3), which is a mandatory report, and emotional abuse (PC: 11166.05), which is a permitted report.

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False

 

6.  Based on Alejo vs. City of Alhambra, California therapists now have a duty to investigate child abuse.

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7. The concept that batterers represent a heterogeneous population is not just a philosophy - it is a fact based on empirical research.

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8.  There are two (and more recently three) types of batterers that follow a consistent pattern.  Each group clustered into different diagnoses or personality disorders which suggested that treatment for each type may be uniquely different.

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False

9.  Psychopathic batterers are associated with dismissing attachment.

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10.  Borderline batterers are associated with disorganized or fearful attachment.

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False

11.  Overcontrolled batterers are associated with preoccupied attachment.

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False

12.  According to Dutton, the borderline batterers have the highest re-offense rates in treatment.  This is because of their extreme difficulty with emotion regulation and impulsivity.

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False

13.  The psychopathic and overcontrolled batterers tend to have the least severe violence.

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False

14.  Research on abused women from an attachment theory perspective suggests that a significant percentage of victims present with insecure attachment.

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False

15.  In a study by the National Institute of Justice, it was found that the abused women in shelters or safe homes, who also had alcohol or drug problems, experienced greater levels of partner abuse.

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False

16. Therapists should be aware that typology or diagnosis alone, can not predict how well a person will comply with treatment.

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17.  James Prochaska and his colleagues developed a theory and assessment tool (URICA - University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale) that looked at readiness for change among different clinical populations. They found that when the treatment interventions were matched with or considered the client's readiness for change (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance) change in behavior was greater.

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False

18.  Alan Rosenbaum at Northern Illinois University found clinically significant prior head injury in 53% of male batterers as compared to 25% of maritally discordant men and 16% of maritally satisfied men.

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False

19.  In general, the studies suggest that when fathers are physically violent with mothers, infants are not more likely to be insecurely attached to their mothers.

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False

20.  Prediction of violence remains a controversial concept in the field of psychology.  Research indicates that we are likely to be wrong as often as we are right about predicting violent behavior.  Most researchers believe that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

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False

21. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist is a poor predictor of violent behavior in general, with many validity studies including domestic violence perpetrators.

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False

22. An examination of the outcome literature shows a range of 4-6% desistence rate of physical violence 2 years post treatment based on victim reports. 

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False

23.  An attachment figure is a caregiving figure who provides protection from danger or threat such as parents or parent figures  In adulthood, these can be one's spouse or partner.

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False

24.  If the attachment figure is sufficiently near, attentive and responsive then secure attachment is likely to be the outcome.

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False

25.  If the attachment figure is consistently not near, attentive and responsive, then preoccupied attachment is the likely outcome.

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False

26.  If the attachment figure is inconsistently near, attentive and responsive, then dismissing attachment is the likely outcome.

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False

27.  If the infant/child experiences fear without solution, disorganized attachment is the likely outcome.

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False

28.  The AAI (Adult Attachment Interview) is a twenty-question interview that is recorded, transcribed and assessed for coherence of the narrative. 

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False

29.  Self-report measures of attachment grew out of social-psychology and the study of adult attachment relationships.

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False

30.  Some of the mental capacities that result from infant secure attachment relationships that lead to an ability to tell a coherent life story (via the AAI) as an adult are autonoetic consciousness, social cognition, self reflection, emotion regulation, and response flexibility.

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False

31.  It is hypothesized by neurobiologists that infants use the mature functions of the parent's brain to develop important capacities related to interpersonal functioning. 

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False

32.  According to attachment theory, when caretakers are psychologically-able to provide sensitive parenting (e.g. attunement to the infants signals and are able to soothe distress, as well as amplify positive experiences), the child feels a haven of safety when in the presence of their caretaker(s). 

True

False

33.  A meta-analysis was conducted of 13 studies using three major categories and found a 10% three-way agreement.  When taking into account all three organized categories (secure, dismissing, preoccupied), there was a 10% prediction of the attachment of the child based on the parent's attachment status.

True

False

34.  When pregnant parents' attachment status is assessed, researchers are able to predict the attachment status of their children by age 2 months with 69% certainty.

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False

35.  Dismissing children become victim of bullies and preoccupied children become bullies.

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False

36.  Social psychologist, Phil Shaver and his colleagues deconstruct attachment into two continuums - anxiety and avoidance.

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False

37.  In one study the researchers found gay relationships were significantly more violent than lesbian relationships (56% vs. 25%).

True

False

38.  Mario Mikulincer and Phil Shaver examined the effects of secure base priming on intergroup bias.  They found that having a secure base could change how a person appraises threatening situations into more manageable events without activating insecure attachment-like behaviors such as avoidance, fear, or preoccupation.

True

False

39.  There are two types of memory, implicit and explicit, that are involved in the resolution of unresolved trauma or loss.

True

False

40.  Earned security only occurs as result of psychotherapy.

True

False

 

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