CEFS 601 Quiz Family Systems

CEFS 601 Quiz: Family Systems and Structures; Gender, Culture, Ethnicity

1. Behavior is best understood by examining its interactional context, according to:
2. One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to:
3. Today, working wives:
4. Men’s studies draw attention to the socialization of men toward:
5. Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
6. Closed systems tend to become disorganized and go into disorder. This is known as:
7. A common impact of migration on families is/are:
8. For most families, engagement with larger systems are
9. The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its
10. Which of the following is NOT an example of a sudden, disruptive and discontinuous life cycle change event in a family’s history?
11. The leading advocates today of a multidimensional, multicultural view of the life cycle concept are:
12. Hardy & Laszloffy have proposed a ____________ to help people trace their heritage
13. The view that there are multiple versions of reality, or narratives, within a family comes from the:
14. Most divorced persons:
15. Reciprocal determinism refers to
16. Which of the following is an example of a sudden, disruptive, and discontinuous life change?
17. A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes (best answer):
18. Coontz views marriage as a
19. Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that:
20. Combrinck-Graham suggests that three generational family development frequently alternates between:
21. When family therapists refer to first-order cybernetics, they are attending to:
22. By marital quid pro quo, Jackson was referring to:
23. Developmental tasks:
24. The theory of social ecology, including four levels of influence, was proposed by
25. Systems theory:
26. In working with immigrant families, family therapists need to remain aware of:
27. An idiosyncratic family pattern refers to:
28. Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families
29. “Objectivity per se does not exist; each member has his or her legitimate viewpoint regarding family reality.” This statement is likely to be made by an adherent of:
30. Advocates of a new epistemology, such as Dell, view the therapist’s role as helping the family:
31. An example of a vertical stressor is:
32. A family member’s longest set of relationships are likely to be:
33. Lesbian parents:
34. The erosion of family structure among economically impoverished families often leads to:
35. Families coping with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
36. Cybernetics refers to a system’s method of:
37. The _________ of subsystem boundaries is more important for effective familiy function than the composition of the family subsystems.
38. Systems oriented clinicians are most interested in:
39. In a joint legal custody arrangement, both parents:
40. “A disturbed mother produces disturbed children.” This statement is offered by the authors as an example of:
41. The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
42. Minuchin, a structuralist, views symptomatic behavior in a family member as rooted in:
43. If content is the language of linear causality, then _________________ is the language of circular causality:
44. Classical theories (psychoanalysis) that focus on the individual probably emphasize:
45. The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a dialogue rather than observing from outside is probably an advocate of:
46. Each family system:
47. As children grow up and leave home, the family’s developmental task involves:
48. A family’s metarules refers to
49. Life-cycle concepts should be seen within the context of issues such as:
50. Feminists are critical of the cybernetic concept of circular causality in male-female relationships because of the implication of: