EDCO 820 Quiz 6 Presenting Family
EDCO 820 Quiz 6 Looking for Patterns: Assessing the Presenting Family
- Wives who criticize instead of complaining trigger the flooding in their husbands that leads to
- It is hard to respond positively to criticism, since it is a direct attack on a person’s personality.
- is directly corrosive if love in marriages. Volatility
- Mismatches in marital style open the way for the ______________ and other patterns of reactivity that can destabilize a marriage.
- If one partner is high on ___________ but the other is not, the probably often feel unfairly attacked.
- Stonewallers usually think they are being “neutral,” not negative.
- When distressing thoughts about a partner and the relationship become cast in stone, it can be very destructive to a marriage.
- is almost always a two-way street.
- Whether the result of divorce, death, or a choice to parent alone, single- parent families are usually headed by the father.
- Which choice below is NOT considered a diverse family structure by Williams et al.?
- When two people are experiencing conflict, distance, and anxiety, pulling in a third person in an effort to cope with relational stress and stabilize the system is called:
- A family’s flexibility and connectedness ideally change through the life-cycle to accommodate individual development and family transitions.
- refers to the family’s ability to adapt to change, which is intimately related to the family’s leadership and organization.
- An essential part of family assessment is looking for _______________ of interactions, which are usually repetitive and circular.
- Many beginning family counselors allow the clients to establish the structure of the counseling, which can be a mistake.
- By ______________, Williams et al. mean placing the problem in the context of the family and considering the repetitive, circular patterns of the family in its effort to cope with the problem.
- families have closed internal boundaries and diffuse external boundaries, which severely limit attachments and offers little protection from external intrusions and individuals/
- When assessing the family, it is helpful to visualize the system as a series of three basic subsystems. Which choice is NOT one of the three?
- The first question in beginning a family assessment is:
- The reading this week suggests that there are three barriers to effective family assessment. Which choice below is not one of those barriers?