COUC 601 Quiz Family Systems
COUC 601 Quiz: Family Systems and Structures; Gender, Culture, Ethnicity
Modules 1 — 2: Weeks 1 — 2
- In working with immigrant families, family therapists need to remain aware of:
- Karpel emphasizes:
- Life-cycle concepts should be seen within the context of issues such as:
- The consultant who takes the interaction of two systems into account is using which approach?
- Metarules are:
- In the view of family therapists with a functional outlook, the appearance of symptoms in a family member serves as a:
- The key to understanding how system theory operates:
- Which of the following is NOT an example of a sudden, disruptive and discontinuous life cycle change event in a family’s history?
- Homeostasis refers to:
- Families interact in repetitive behavioral sequences. This is known as:
- Which of the following constitutes a horizontal stressor?
- Gender, power, and control issues are involved in:
- Nuclear family refers to:
- Developmental tasks:
- Classical theories (psychoanalysis) that focus on the individual probably emphasize:
- The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its
- Ethnicity and cultural background:
- The _________ of subsystem boundaries is more important for effective family function than the composition of the family subsystems.
- A family’s metarules refers to
- Many early family therapists operated in a gender-free fashion, and:
- Systems oriented clinicians are most interested in:
- Which of the following statements is/are true?
- By marital quid pro quo, Jackson was referring to:
- The theory of social ecology, including four levels of influence, was proposed by
- Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
- In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the presenting problem involved:
- Family loyalty, unity, honor, and obligation are especially important in:
- One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to:
- Which of the following is not an example of a larger system that all families interact with and are influenced by?
- Most divorced persons:
- An idiosyncratic family pattern refers to:
- The more open a family, the more
- Today, working wives:
- An example of a vertical stressor is:
- Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families
- The view that there are multiple versions of reality, or narratives, within a family comes from the:
- Advocates of a new epistemology, such as Dell, view the therapist’s role as helping the family:
- Minuchin, a structuralist, views symptomatic behavior in a family member as rooted in:
- Negative and positive feedback loops are:
- Family narratives:
- Hare-Mustin contend that, as opposed to men, a woman’s greater reliance on relationships can be explained as a need to please others when one lacks:
- Cultural specificity refers to:
- Developmentally speaking, gay and lesbian adolescents
- Feminists are critical of the cybernetic concept of circular causality in male-female relationships because of the implication of:
- Children living with unmarried mothers are:
- According to the postmodern view:
- Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to
- Closed systems tend to become disorganized and go into disorder. This is known as:
- Families coping with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
- Coontz views marriage as a