What is the major presenting pitfall in listening to a family’s perspective on the presenting problem?
Which phenomena are not a focus of cybernetics, as applied to families?
A model of living systems as whole entities which maintain themselves through continuous input and output from the environment, developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy is known as
A state of dynamic balance is known as
Panic attacks are fueled by:
Challenging linearity means:
The stages of a family’s life from separation from one’s parents to marriage, having children, growing older, retirement, and finally death, are known as the:
Systems theory _____________ sensitivity to gender roles.
According to the author, therapists should inquire about drug and alcohol consumption:
The goal of a first interview with a family is to develop an alliance with the family and:
The greatest conceptual influence on the early development of family therapy was:
A treatment contract typically includes:
Constructivism first found its way into psychotherapy in the work of:
The study of control processes in systems, particularly the analysis of the flow of information in self-regulating systems, is known as:
According the to the authors, the real value of the family life-cycle concept is
According to attachment theory, attachment is:
___________ said that relationship problems usually involve triangles.
Narrative therapy differs from solution-focused therapy in being more focused on _____________ than
At termination a family therapist should____
Which is not a concept of von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory?