Marriage and Family Counseling
1. Developmental tasks:
a. always involve children
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle
c. rarely involve family conflict
d. always impede family functioning -
✅occur at all stages of the life cycle
A family stage marker refers to: A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event
b. a stage of life
c. the final decade of life
d. all of the above -
✅a particular life event
Family stage markers are events in a family's life that:
a. demand a new adaptation
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next
c. mark the close of the childbearing years
d. none of the above -
✅demand a new adaptation
Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family's intergenerational issues
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert
c. are less interested in a family's "stuck" places than are the social constructionists
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists -
✅attend to a family's intergenerational issues
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,From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member represent:
a) intrapsychic distress
b) interpersonal distress
c)a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
d) a learned response to anxiety -
✅a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
Early developmental schemes typically described:
a. immigrant families
b .intact middle-class American families
c. all families covered in the 1940 census
d. only childless families -
✅intact middle-class American families
Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
a) structuralists
b) social constructionists
c) behaviorists
d) cognitive-behaviorists -
✅structuralists
A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
A) it is explanatory rather than descriptive
B) it offers normative data on extended families only
C)it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events
D) it does not deal with transition periods between stages -
✅it does not deal with transition periods between stages
Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b.launching children
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, c. initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. consolidating gender
PG 41 -
✅either A or C
A young adult's primary developmental task is:
a) separating from one's parents without cutting off from them
b) finding a suitable mate
c) realigning relationships with extended families
d) becoming a parent -
✅separating from one's parents without cutting off from them
According to the authors, the most significant milestone in a family's life cycle is usually:
a) deciding to marry
b) the arrival of children
c) choosing a career
d) deciding on a life style -
✅the arrival of children
The term "suprasystem" refers to:
a. husband, wife, and first child
b. husband, wife, and all children
c. husband, wife, children, and extended family members
d. husband, wife, and in-laws -
✅husband, wife, children, and extended family members
Families with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
a) rule changing
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1. Developmental tasks:
a. always involve children
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle
c. rarely involve family conflict
d. always impede family functioning -
✅occur at all stages of the life cycle
A family stage marker refers to: A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event
b. a stage of life
c. the final decade of life
d. all of the above -
✅a particular life event
Family stage markers are events in a family's life that:
a. demand a new adaptation
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next
c. mark the close of the childbearing years
d. none of the above -
✅demand a new adaptation
Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family's intergenerational issues
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert
c. are less interested in a family's "stuck" places than are the social constructionists
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists -
✅attend to a family's intergenerational issues
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,From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member represent:
a) intrapsychic distress
b) interpersonal distress
c)a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
d) a learned response to anxiety -
✅a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
Early developmental schemes typically described:
a. immigrant families
b .intact middle-class American families
c. all families covered in the 1940 census
d. only childless families -
✅intact middle-class American families
Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
a) structuralists
b) social constructionists
c) behaviorists
d) cognitive-behaviorists -
✅structuralists
A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
A) it is explanatory rather than descriptive
B) it offers normative data on extended families only
C)it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events
D) it does not deal with transition periods between stages -
✅it does not deal with transition periods between stages
Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b.launching children
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, c. initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. consolidating gender
PG 41 -
✅either A or C
A young adult's primary developmental task is:
a) separating from one's parents without cutting off from them
b) finding a suitable mate
c) realigning relationships with extended families
d) becoming a parent -
✅separating from one's parents without cutting off from them
According to the authors, the most significant milestone in a family's life cycle is usually:
a) deciding to marry
b) the arrival of children
c) choosing a career
d) deciding on a life style -
✅the arrival of children
The term "suprasystem" refers to:
a. husband, wife, and first child
b. husband, wife, and all children
c. husband, wife, children, and extended family members
d. husband, wife, and in-laws -
✅husband, wife, children, and extended family members
Families with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
a) rule changing
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