COUC 601 MIDTERM EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Differentiation of Self
Answer:
Capacity to think and reflect rather than respond emotionally. The ability to be flexible and act wisely in
the face of anxiety.
Question:
2. Undifferentiated People
Answer:
Extremely reactive to the people and anxiety around them.
Question:
3. Bowen's Central Ideas
Answer:
Differentiation of self Triangulation Fusion
Question:
4. Bowen Perspective on Symptoms
Answer:
The Result of Stress
Question:
5. Circular Causality
Answer:
The view that causality is nonlinear, occurring instead within a relationship context and through a network
of interacting loops; any cause is thus seen as an effect of a prior cause, as in the interactions within
families.
Question:
6. cybernetics
Answer:
The study of methods of feedback control within a system, especially the flow of information through
feedback loops. Science of feedback; how information can help self-regulate a system.
Question:
7. Double-bind concept
Answer:
Conflict created when an individual receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction and
cannot leave the situation or relieve the conflict or tension.
Question:
8. Constructivism
, Answer:
Relativistic point of view that emphasizes the subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we see
in families may be based as much on our perceptions as on what's actually going on.
Question:
9. Goal of Bowenian Therapy
Answer:
Insight
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10. Bowenian Assessments
Answer:
Genograms
Question:
11. Bowenian Techniques
Answer:
Process Questions Relationship Experiments
Question:
12. First Order Change
Answer:
When only a specific behaviour within a system changes. Superficial change that is temporary.
Question:
13. Second Order Change
Answer:
When the rules of the system change. Sustained change in the organization of structure of the system.
Question:
14. Linear Causality
Answer:
View that nonreciprocal relationships exists between events in a sequence, so that one event causes the
next event, not vice versa.
Question:
15. Psychopathology
Answer:
A disease concept derived from medicine, referring to the origins of abnormal behaviour.
Question:
16. Strategic Therapy
Answer:
Therapeutic approach in which the therapist develops a specific plan or strategies and designs interventions
aimed at solving the presenting problem.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Differentiation of Self
Answer:
Capacity to think and reflect rather than respond emotionally. The ability to be flexible and act wisely in
the face of anxiety.
Question:
2. Undifferentiated People
Answer:
Extremely reactive to the people and anxiety around them.
Question:
3. Bowen's Central Ideas
Answer:
Differentiation of self Triangulation Fusion
Question:
4. Bowen Perspective on Symptoms
Answer:
The Result of Stress
Question:
5. Circular Causality
Answer:
The view that causality is nonlinear, occurring instead within a relationship context and through a network
of interacting loops; any cause is thus seen as an effect of a prior cause, as in the interactions within
families.
Question:
6. cybernetics
Answer:
The study of methods of feedback control within a system, especially the flow of information through
feedback loops. Science of feedback; how information can help self-regulate a system.
Question:
7. Double-bind concept
Answer:
Conflict created when an individual receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction and
cannot leave the situation or relieve the conflict or tension.
Question:
8. Constructivism
, Answer:
Relativistic point of view that emphasizes the subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we see
in families may be based as much on our perceptions as on what's actually going on.
Question:
9. Goal of Bowenian Therapy
Answer:
Insight
Question:
10. Bowenian Assessments
Answer:
Genograms
Question:
11. Bowenian Techniques
Answer:
Process Questions Relationship Experiments
Question:
12. First Order Change
Answer:
When only a specific behaviour within a system changes. Superficial change that is temporary.
Question:
13. Second Order Change
Answer:
When the rules of the system change. Sustained change in the organization of structure of the system.
Question:
14. Linear Causality
Answer:
View that nonreciprocal relationships exists between events in a sequence, so that one event causes the
next event, not vice versa.
Question:
15. Psychopathology
Answer:
A disease concept derived from medicine, referring to the origins of abnormal behaviour.
Question:
16. Strategic Therapy
Answer:
Therapeutic approach in which the therapist develops a specific plan or strategies and designs interventions
aimed at solving the presenting problem.
