CEFS 601 Exam 1

CEFS 601 Exam 1 Liberty University

1. Combrinck-Graham suggests that three generational family development frequently alternates between:
2. “A disturbed mother produces disturbed children.” This statement is offered by the authors as an example of:
3. Families interact in repetitive behavioral sequences. This is known as:
4. Today, working wives:
5. Metarules are:
6. The term “suprasystem” refers to:
7. A central idea in a process-based approach (vs. linear approach) is
8. Stepfamilies typically:
9. Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families
10. Family narratives:
11. Negative and positive feedback loops are:
12. Strategists view psychiatric symptoms in a family member as
13. Karpel emphasizes:
14. Which of the following is NOT a factor in gaining a comprehensive understanding of a family’s development and current functioning of clients families?
15. For most families, engagement with larger systems are
16. Reinsertion into a system of the results of past performances is called:
17. Gender, power, and control issues are involved in:
18. The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a dialogue rather than observing from outside is probably an advocate of:
19. The more open a family, the more
20. The view that there are multiple versions of reality, or narratives, within a family comes from the:
21. A family will have a number or coexisting subsystems. According to the text, which subsystem is executive and basic in a family?
22. What Carter and McGoldrick refer to as “launching children and moving on” is called what by Gerson?
23. According to Gilligan, women are more apt than men to:
24. Family loyalty, unity, honor, and obligation are especially important in:
25. The “identified patient” is the person in the family who:
26. Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to
27. A common impact of migration on families is/are:
28. A family’s metarules refers to
29. Closed systems tend to become disorganized and go into disorder. This is known as:
30. One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to:
31. The family life-cycle approach focuses upon the family’s:
32. Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes:
33. Women are especially vulnerable if divorced later in life because of:
34. Coontz views marriage as a
35. Systems theory:
36. Dyads and triads normally refer to:
37. A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes (best answer):
38. Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that:
39. As children grow up and leave home, the family’s developmental task involves:
40. 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:
41. Anthropologist Bateson has defined _________________ as “a difference that makes a difference.”
42. The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
43. In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the presenting problem involved:
44. Reciprocal determinism refers to
45. Men’s studies draw attention to the socialization of men toward:
46. Families coping with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
47. Most divorced persons:
48. Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
49. Which of the following has not been identified by Walsh as a key process in family resiliency?
50. Advocates of a new epistemology, such as Dell, view the therapist’s role as helping the family: