COUC 601 MIDTERM UPDATED 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 care-giver 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 in-tegrity of individuals, subsystems,
and families.
Question:
5. Narrative Therapy
Answer:
helps create a shift in client's ex-periences by helping them re-ex-amine how they look at things. This
therapy's aim is more attitudi-nal(behavioral) and involves the ex-ternalization and reconstruction of
defining problems not as proper-ties of a person but as foreign en-tities causing oppression. An
ap-proach 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 prob-lems--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 mem-bers 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 separa-tion from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older,
re-tirement, and finally death
Question:
9. constructivism
Answer:
a relativistic point of view that em-phasizes the the subjective con-struction of reality. Implies that
what we see in families may be based as much on our preconcep-tions as on what's actually
happen-ing
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 equilib-rium
Question:
12. metacommunication
Answer:
Every message has two levels, re-port 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
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 care-giver 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 in-tegrity of individuals, subsystems,
and families.
Question:
5. Narrative Therapy
Answer:
helps create a shift in client's ex-periences by helping them re-ex-amine how they look at things. This
therapy's aim is more attitudi-nal(behavioral) and involves the ex-ternalization and reconstruction of
defining problems not as proper-ties of a person but as foreign en-tities causing oppression. An
ap-proach 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 prob-lems--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 mem-bers 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 separa-tion from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older,
re-tirement, and finally death
Question:
9. constructivism
Answer:
a relativistic point of view that em-phasizes the the subjective con-struction of reality. Implies that
what we see in families may be based as much on our preconcep-tions as on what's actually
happen-ing
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 equilib-rium
Question:
12. metacommunication
Answer:
Every message has two levels, re-port 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
