Family & Systems Therapies

5 Questions | By Ljstubbs | Updated: May 25, 2022 | Attempts: 877

Family and Systems Therapy

Questions and Answers

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