Question 1
2 / 2 pts
Most divorced persons:
eventually remarry
are sufficiently financially secure so that they do not seek remarriage
avoid marriage until their children are grown
can be considered to be noncustodial parents
Question 2
2 / 2 pts
Cultural specificity refers to:
knowledge about who makes up society
knowledge regarding patterns common to a specific group
appreciation of the immigrant experience
therapist self-awareness of cultural influences
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
A family member's longest set of relationships are likely to be:
with parents if a family remains intact
with siblings
with friends and co-workers
with children and grandchildren
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to
negate the significance of individual internal processes
focus on the family context for understanding individual functioning
give equal power to adults and children alike
all of the above
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
The _________ of subsystem boundaries is more important for effective familiy function
than the composition of the family subsystems.
composition
age
size
clarity
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
Reciprocal determinism refers to
adopting a relationship outlook
attending to content rather than process
linear causality
none of the above
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes:
blurring differences between men and women
multicultural considerations
empowering beyond their biological status
all of the above
Question 8
2 / 2 pts
Developmentally speaking, gay and lesbian adolescents
face similar demands to become independent as heterosexual adolescents
may experience greater anxiety, secrecy, and shame than heterosexual
neither a or b
both a and b
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
Family stage markers are events in a family's life that:
demand a new adaptation
remain the same from one stage of life to the next
mark the close of the childbearing years
none of the above
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Families that live in relative isolation, communicating primarily among themselves, are
apt to become
disengaged systems
relatively closed systems
totally closed systems
negentropic
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
According to the postmodern view:
most families lack resilience
most families accurately perceive an objective reality
families collectively construct a sense of reality
resilience is genetically based
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Children living with unmarried mothers are:
probably middle class as a whole
more likely to be poor
likely to be self-sufficient
likely to seek therapy when needed
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
Hardy & Laszloffy have proposed a ____________ to help people trace their heritage
genealogy search on the Internet
a cultural genogram
a three-generation family conference
none of the above
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
In the view of family therapists with a functional outlook, the appearance of symptoms in
a family member serves as a:
sign of illness in the family
manifestation of genetic predispositions
family re-stabilizing device
none of the above
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
Negative and positive feedback loops are:
bad and good respectively
good and bad respectively
neither intrinsically good or bad
invariably destabilizing
Question 16
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is NOT considered to be an enduring subsystem?
spousal
gender
sibling
parental
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
The developmental framework for studying families, in the 1940s, was first proposed by:
family therapists
family counselors
family sociologists
family social workers
Question 18
2 / 2 pts
According to the view of narrative therapists, symptomatic behavior in a family member
reflects underlying family problems
represents repetitive previous solutions
oppresses rather than protects a family
protects rather than oppresses a family
Question 19
2 / 2 pts
A family will have a number or coexisting subsystems. According to the text, which
subsystem is executive and basic in a family?
husband-wife
parental
sibling
all equally basic
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
Families interact in repetitive behavioral sequences. This is known as:
boundary rules
homeostasis
the redundancy principle
the rule repetition phenomenon
Question 21
2 / 2 pts
Gender, power, and control issues are involved in:
multicultural approaches to family therapy
family violence and sexual abuse
sexist counseling
none of the above
Question 22
2 / 2 pts
"A disturbed mother produces disturbed children." This statement is offered by the
authors as an example of:
epistemology
linear causality
circular causality
a paradigmatic shift now accepted by most family therapists
Question 23
2 / 2 pts
The erosion of family structure among economically impoverished families often leads
to:
increased efforts to reorganize or strengthen family ties
learning to view their impotence as normal
reduced dependence on the community's social institutions
all of the above
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
Who has been credited for developing the theory of "double bind"?
Haley
Bateson
Wiener
Goldenberg
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
"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:
Constructivist theory
social learning theory
structural theory
behavioral theory
Question 26
2 / 2 pts
In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the
presenting problem involved:
gang participation
irregular school attendance
parental separation
all of the above
Question 27
2 / 2 pts
A common impact of migration on families is/are:
role reversals between parents and children in language acquisition
the undermining of traditional cultural norms
cross-cultural differences between culture of origin and dominant culture
all the above
Question 28
2 / 2 pts
When family therapists refer to first-order cybernetics, they are attending to:
birth order of family members
patterns of structure and feedback control that govern systems
family paradigms
early therapeutic interventions
Question 29
2 / 2 pts
A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes (best answer):
the culture-specific approach
the ethnicity approach
the multicultural approach
the family functioning approach
Question 30
2 / 2 pts
The family life-cycle approach focuses upon the family's:
organization and structure
pathology patterns
life stages
operations as a social system
Question 31
2 / 2 pts
Nuclear family refers to:
husband, wife, and offspring living together
a married couple, children, and nearby relatives
one's suprafamily
all the above
Question 32
2 / 2 pts
The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its
process
power
structure
none of the above
Question 33
2 / 2 pts
Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families
set up written contracts stating agreed- upon family rules
de-emphasize their feelings and avoid topics causing family pain
follow rules she establishes for them
recognize their unwritten rules
Question 34
2 / 2 pts
A family's metarules refers to
rules about the rules
discarded rules
flexible family rules
inflexible family rules
Question 35
2 / 2 pts
Many early family therapists operated in a gender-free fashion, and:
were feminists
saw men and women as having equal power and control in the family
were especially attuned to family politics
acknowledged inequality between marital partners
Question 36
2 / 2 pts
In the view of second-order cyberneticists, which of the following is apt to see family
systems as analogous to mechanical systems?
Gestalt therapist
psychoanalysis
first-order cyberneticists
all the above
Question 37
2 / 2 pts
One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to:
enable clients to move beyond prescribed sex roles
empower women but not men
eliminate all differences between men and women
reduce nonsexist thinking
Question 38
2 / 2 pts
Men's studies draw attention to the socialization of men toward:
female role restrictions
curtailed emotional expressiveness in men
remarriage rates in men and women
gender blindness toward women but not men
Question 39
2 / 2 pts
Homeostasis refers to:
the tendency within a family for persons of the same sex to band together
roles within a family being assigned according to traditional sex roles
the family’s self-regulating efforts to maintain stability and resist change
none of the above
Question 40
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following constitutes a horizontal stressor?
family expectations
birth of a handicapped child
ethnic loyalties
family secrets
Question 41
2 / 2 pts
Coontz views marriage as a
social invention derived from early societies
means for dividing complementary roles for men and women
changing phenomenon as current views of marriage have broadened
all of the above
Question 42
2 / 2 pts
Ethnicity and cultural background:
are rarely as important as racial or religious factors in understanding family functioning
influence how we celebrate holidays primarily
affect how we think, feel, express anxieties, etc.
have no place in a democratic society
Question 43
2 / 2 pts
Systems oriented clinicians are most interested in:
the process that is taking place within a family
the content of the family's problems
why problematic behavior has arisen
family history
Question 44
2 / 2 pts
Systems theory:
encompasses cybernetics and general systems theory
replaces cybernetics and general systems theory
is another name for cybernetics only
is another name for general systems theory but not cybernetics
Question 45
2 / 2 pts
According to the text, the major credit for applying cybernetic principles to human
communication belongs to:
Akerman
Haley
Sluzki
Bateson
Question 46
2 / 2 pts
Lesbian parents:
have similar life cycle stresses to heterosexual families
may rely on donor insemination to have children
may adopt children
all the above
Question 47
2 / 2 pts
Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
structuralists
behaviorists
social constructionists
cognitive-behaviorists
Question 48
2 / 2 pts
Gender differences in perception and behavior result from:
biological forces
cultural forces
both biological and cultural forces
neither biological or cultural forces
Question 49
2 / 2 pts
Today, working wives:
are more likely to receive help from their husbands regarding domestic chores than in
the past
continue to bear the major brunt of household chores
are more likely than their husbands to take responsibility for maintaining contact with
parents
all of the above
Question 50
2 / 2 pts
Dyads and triads normally refer to:
a couple or a three-person relationship
two or three generations in this country
two or three family members who regularly attend family therapy sessions
therapist-couple transactions
Quiz Score: 100 out of 100
