Marriage and Family Therapy I Final
Lynn Wynne's term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many schizophrenic families is
-
pseudomutuality
Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual's treatment when -
they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse & they realized the
family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this concept to describe the patterns of
disturbed family communication, which cause schizophrenia. -
double bind
According to Theodore Lidz, marital schism occurs when: -
there is a chronic failure of spouses to achieve role reciprocity
Jackson's concept that families are units that resist change, became the defining metaphor of family
therapy's first three decades. -
family homeostasis
This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in his family was as significant for
his approach to family therapy as Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis. -
Murray Bowen
The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general categories: joining and _____. -
restructuring techniques
The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state is known as: -
homeostasis
A relationship in which a husband and a wife both pursue careers and share housekeeping and child
rearing responsibilities is -
symmetrical
According to communications theory, health families are able to adapt to changing circumstances
through use of -
positive feedback
What is essential to accomplish in the first session in order to establish a productive therapeutic alliance
with a family? -
Connection with each member, establish leadership, and focus on specific problems.
Why is traditional couples therapy considered potentially dangerous in the treatment of causes
involving material violence? -
the violence would be heightened.
, Which is not a concept of vonBertalanffy's general systems theory? -
"blackbox" metaphor
Superficial change in a system which itself stays invariant is termed ______, while basic change in the
structure of a system is called _____. -
first-order; second order
A balanced steady state of equilibrium is known as: -
homeostasis
The study of control processes in systems, particularly the analysis of the flow of information in closed
systems, is known as: -
cybernetics
Boundaries around the executive subsystem in the family are of particular importance because the
family ____ is seen by structural therapists as crucial to the family's well-being. -
hierarchy
The stages of a family's life from separation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing
older, retirement, and finally death, are known as the: -
family life cycle
The phrase, "where the id is, there the ego shall be" best fits which concept? -
differentiation of self
What are positive and negative feedback and how do they operate in families? -
positive feedback: information that reinforces the direction a system is taking; Negative feedback:
indicates that a system is straying off the mark and that corrections are needed to get it back on course.
The primary goal of Bowen family therapy is to: -
increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
The "differentiated" individual: -
can balance his or her needs for closeness and autonomy
According to Bowen theory, more highly differentiated individuals will likely: -
have parents who are high differentiated
By training family members in 3 areas-teaching differentiation, avoiding triangulation, and ____,
Bowen therapists can enable a single individual to transform the whole network of his or her family
system. -
reopening cut-off family relationships
In Bowen theory, the flight from a conflictual emotional attachment to one's parents is known as: -
emotional cutoff
This Bowenian concept describes the level of emotional "stuck-togetherness" or fusion in the family. -
lack of differentiation of self
Lynn Wynne's term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many schizophrenic families is
-
pseudomutuality
Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual's treatment when -
they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse & they realized the
family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this concept to describe the patterns of
disturbed family communication, which cause schizophrenia. -
double bind
According to Theodore Lidz, marital schism occurs when: -
there is a chronic failure of spouses to achieve role reciprocity
Jackson's concept that families are units that resist change, became the defining metaphor of family
therapy's first three decades. -
family homeostasis
This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in his family was as significant for
his approach to family therapy as Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis. -
Murray Bowen
The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general categories: joining and _____. -
restructuring techniques
The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state is known as: -
homeostasis
A relationship in which a husband and a wife both pursue careers and share housekeeping and child
rearing responsibilities is -
symmetrical
According to communications theory, health families are able to adapt to changing circumstances
through use of -
positive feedback
What is essential to accomplish in the first session in order to establish a productive therapeutic alliance
with a family? -
Connection with each member, establish leadership, and focus on specific problems.
Why is traditional couples therapy considered potentially dangerous in the treatment of causes
involving material violence? -
the violence would be heightened.
, Which is not a concept of vonBertalanffy's general systems theory? -
"blackbox" metaphor
Superficial change in a system which itself stays invariant is termed ______, while basic change in the
structure of a system is called _____. -
first-order; second order
A balanced steady state of equilibrium is known as: -
homeostasis
The study of control processes in systems, particularly the analysis of the flow of information in closed
systems, is known as: -
cybernetics
Boundaries around the executive subsystem in the family are of particular importance because the
family ____ is seen by structural therapists as crucial to the family's well-being. -
hierarchy
The stages of a family's life from separation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing
older, retirement, and finally death, are known as the: -
family life cycle
The phrase, "where the id is, there the ego shall be" best fits which concept? -
differentiation of self
What are positive and negative feedback and how do they operate in families? -
positive feedback: information that reinforces the direction a system is taking; Negative feedback:
indicates that a system is straying off the mark and that corrections are needed to get it back on course.
The primary goal of Bowen family therapy is to: -
increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
The "differentiated" individual: -
can balance his or her needs for closeness and autonomy
According to Bowen theory, more highly differentiated individuals will likely: -
have parents who are high differentiated
By training family members in 3 areas-teaching differentiation, avoiding triangulation, and ____,
Bowen therapists can enable a single individual to transform the whole network of his or her family
system. -
reopening cut-off family relationships
In Bowen theory, the flight from a conflictual emotional attachment to one's parents is known as: -
emotional cutoff
This Bowenian concept describes the level of emotional "stuck-togetherness" or fusion in the family. -
lack of differentiation of self
