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- 1.A tendency for families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state is know as:
- A.
Metacommunication
- B.
Negative feedback
- C.
Homeostasis
- D.
Complementarity
- 2.The primary goal of Bowenian family therapy is to:
- A.
Increase the family's ability to solve everyday problems
- B.
Enhance each family member's ability to experience and express feelings
- C.
To improve the communication between each family member
- D.
Increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
- 3.A structural famuly therapist is most likely to view the presenting problem of a family in terms of:
- A.
Faulty communication
- B.
Overly rigid or overly permeable boundaries
- C.
A failure of complementarity
- D.
Insufficient quid pro quo
- 4.By constructing a family genogram, you learn that the client's family is intensely cloe, much more so than might be expected for the family's cultural background. This family would be called
- A.
Enmeshed
- B.
Triangulated
- C.
Estranged
- D.
Joined
- 5.Which of the following statements about research on systems theory would be FALSE:
- A.
Bowenian therapy has received adequate research
- B.
Outcomes for couples and family therapy are similar to those of individual therapies
- C.
Most of the communication and strategic therapists have not been involved in systematic assessments of their Txs
- D.
System therapy has been tested on a variety of specific disorders and problems
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