COUC 601 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. complementary relationship
Answer:
partners are different in ways that fit together, where qualities of one make up for lacks in the other
Question:
2. attachment
Answer:
the bond between infant and caregiver that is based on the biological drive for proximity- J. Bowlby the
tendency to seek closeness to caretakers in the face of stress
Question:
3. double bind
Answer:
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an
important relationship, and cannot leave or comment is a:
Question:
4. boundaries
Answer:
Emotional and physical barriers that protect and enhance the integrity of individuals, subsystems, and
families.
Question:
5. Narrative Therapy
Answer:
helps create a shift in client's experiences by helping them re-examine how they look at things. This
therapy's aim is more attitudinal(behavioral) and involves the externalization and reconstruction of
defining problems not as properties of a person but as foreign entities causing oppression. An approach
that emphasizes the role of the stories people construct about their experience
Question:
6. Solution-Focused Therapy
Answer:
This approach believes it is not necessary to define the problem in order to make things better. This
therapy help clients see that there are exceptions to their problems--they don't happen all the time--and the
exceptions are the solutions the clients already have. The therapist pays less attention to the forces
controlling family members because they see people as fluid and changeable
Question:
7. Systems Theory
, Answer:
Central to this theory is the idea that the essential properties of a system arise from the relationships among
its parts. A generic term for the study of a group of elements or a family that interacts as a whole entity.
Question:
8. family life cycle
Answer:
stages of family life from separation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older,
retirement, and finally death
Question:
9. constructivism
Answer:
a relativistic point of view that emphasizes the the subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we
see in families may be based as much on our preconceptions as on what's actually happening
Question:
10. Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick
Answer:
introduced the concept of family life cycle into the field of MFT
Question:
11. homeostasis
Answer:
A balanced, steady state of equilibrium
Question:
12. metacommunication
Answer:
Every message has two levels, report and command; the implied command or qualifying message
Question:
13. morphogenesis
Answer:
The process by which a system changes its structure to adapt to new contexts.
Question:
14. equifinality
Answer:
the ability of complex systems to reach a given final goal in a variety of different ways
Question:
15. black box concept
Answer:
The idea that because the mind is so complex, it's better to study people's input and output (behavior,
communication) than to speculate about what goes on in their minds.(only a part of Systems Theory)
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. complementary relationship
Answer:
partners are different in ways that fit together, where qualities of one make up for lacks in the other
Question:
2. attachment
Answer:
the bond between infant and caregiver that is based on the biological drive for proximity- J. Bowlby the
tendency to seek closeness to caretakers in the face of stress
Question:
3. double bind
Answer:
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an
important relationship, and cannot leave or comment is a:
Question:
4. boundaries
Answer:
Emotional and physical barriers that protect and enhance the integrity of individuals, subsystems, and
families.
Question:
5. Narrative Therapy
Answer:
helps create a shift in client's experiences by helping them re-examine how they look at things. This
therapy's aim is more attitudinal(behavioral) and involves the externalization and reconstruction of
defining problems not as properties of a person but as foreign entities causing oppression. An approach
that emphasizes the role of the stories people construct about their experience
Question:
6. Solution-Focused Therapy
Answer:
This approach believes it is not necessary to define the problem in order to make things better. This
therapy help clients see that there are exceptions to their problems--they don't happen all the time--and the
exceptions are the solutions the clients already have. The therapist pays less attention to the forces
controlling family members because they see people as fluid and changeable
Question:
7. Systems Theory
, Answer:
Central to this theory is the idea that the essential properties of a system arise from the relationships among
its parts. A generic term for the study of a group of elements or a family that interacts as a whole entity.
Question:
8. family life cycle
Answer:
stages of family life from separation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older,
retirement, and finally death
Question:
9. constructivism
Answer:
a relativistic point of view that emphasizes the the subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we
see in families may be based as much on our preconceptions as on what's actually happening
Question:
10. Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick
Answer:
introduced the concept of family life cycle into the field of MFT
Question:
11. homeostasis
Answer:
A balanced, steady state of equilibrium
Question:
12. metacommunication
Answer:
Every message has two levels, report and command; the implied command or qualifying message
Question:
13. morphogenesis
Answer:
The process by which a system changes its structure to adapt to new contexts.
Question:
14. equifinality
Answer:
the ability of complex systems to reach a given final goal in a variety of different ways
Question:
15. black box concept
Answer:
The idea that because the mind is so complex, it's better to study people's input and output (behavior,
communication) than to speculate about what goes on in their minds.(only a part of Systems Theory)
