COUC 601 THEORIES OF FAMILY SYSTEMS
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
◉ Family System.
Answer: A unit of interdependent individuals
◉ Mutual influence.
Answer: what happens in one part of the family system affects every
other component
◉ Feedback.
Answer: Ways of capturing the interdependence function of systems,
influence can be positive (by allowing change) or negative (puts a
stop to communication to bring system to equilibrium)
◉ Equilibrium.
Answer: Families are always working one something to maintain
balance between change and stability
◉ Emeshment.
Answer: Overly high cohesion and interdependence
, ◉ Disengagement.
Answer: less cohesion, more independent
◉ Brown.
Answer: Pioneers of family therapy, and family systems theory
◉ Wiener.
Answer: Cybernetics
◉ Assumptions of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: -There's interdependence in which movement in one part of
the system affects another part
-See family as a connected system with component parts
◉ Epistemology of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: Interpretive: seeks to explain how families are an
interdependent system
◉ Strengths of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: 1. Practical implications (easily applied to everyday life and
wide range of families)
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
◉ Family System.
Answer: A unit of interdependent individuals
◉ Mutual influence.
Answer: what happens in one part of the family system affects every
other component
◉ Feedback.
Answer: Ways of capturing the interdependence function of systems,
influence can be positive (by allowing change) or negative (puts a
stop to communication to bring system to equilibrium)
◉ Equilibrium.
Answer: Families are always working one something to maintain
balance between change and stability
◉ Emeshment.
Answer: Overly high cohesion and interdependence
, ◉ Disengagement.
Answer: less cohesion, more independent
◉ Brown.
Answer: Pioneers of family therapy, and family systems theory
◉ Wiener.
Answer: Cybernetics
◉ Assumptions of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: -There's interdependence in which movement in one part of
the system affects another part
-See family as a connected system with component parts
◉ Epistemology of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: Interpretive: seeks to explain how families are an
interdependent system
◉ Strengths of Family Systems Theory.
Answer: 1. Practical implications (easily applied to everyday life and
wide range of families)
