Homeostasis
Homeostasis: not a fixed, static condition, however, is a dynamic equilibrium -- there is
movement and activity, but within a certain acceptable range. When activities move towards the outer
limits of that acceptable range, the SELF--REGULATING MECHANISMS are triggered to pull the system's
functioning back within tolerable limit
The inherent nature of systems is that they like to remain balanced or stable
Systems (Families) resist change and after something changes they try to revert back to
the old status quickly.
Systems only create a new balance if they are unable to return to their old balance.
someone who has traditionally been a people pleaser and they've always just kind of got along with
everything if they go to therapy and they start learning to express their wants or to speak up for
themselves people in the family are going to resist them by acting like they're being very rude or
wondering what's happened or confronting them and pushing back on their attempts to assert themselves
so the family seeks that old balance that old status quo that they were used to even if it's unhealthy in
Take Test: Chapter 2 Quiz (25 points)
23/25
QUESTION 1
The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its:
a. general systems theory.
b. structure
c. power.
d. processes.
1 points
QUESTION 2
, General systems theory is considered by the authors to:
a. arise from research at the Mental Research Institute.
b. be too narrow a concept because of its specific references to feedback
mechanisms.
c. be interchangeable with cybernetic theory
d. provide the underpinning for much of family therapy theory.
1 points
QUESTION 3
A systems perspective:
a. supports linear explanations of behavior.
b. stresses wholeness or unity.
c. views component parts as greater than the whole.
d. emphasizes S-R connections
1 points
QUESTION 4
The notion that there is an objectively knowable world to be observed and measured
represents which viewpoint?
a. None of the answers are correct
b. Postmodernism
Homeostasis: not a fixed, static condition, however, is a dynamic equilibrium -- there is
movement and activity, but within a certain acceptable range. When activities move towards the outer
limits of that acceptable range, the SELF--REGULATING MECHANISMS are triggered to pull the system's
functioning back within tolerable limit
The inherent nature of systems is that they like to remain balanced or stable
Systems (Families) resist change and after something changes they try to revert back to
the old status quickly.
Systems only create a new balance if they are unable to return to their old balance.
someone who has traditionally been a people pleaser and they've always just kind of got along with
everything if they go to therapy and they start learning to express their wants or to speak up for
themselves people in the family are going to resist them by acting like they're being very rude or
wondering what's happened or confronting them and pushing back on their attempts to assert themselves
so the family seeks that old balance that old status quo that they were used to even if it's unhealthy in
Take Test: Chapter 2 Quiz (25 points)
23/25
QUESTION 1
The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its:
a. general systems theory.
b. structure
c. power.
d. processes.
1 points
QUESTION 2
, General systems theory is considered by the authors to:
a. arise from research at the Mental Research Institute.
b. be too narrow a concept because of its specific references to feedback
mechanisms.
c. be interchangeable with cybernetic theory
d. provide the underpinning for much of family therapy theory.
1 points
QUESTION 3
A systems perspective:
a. supports linear explanations of behavior.
b. stresses wholeness or unity.
c. views component parts as greater than the whole.
d. emphasizes S-R connections
1 points
QUESTION 4
The notion that there is an objectively knowable world to be observed and measured
represents which viewpoint?
a. None of the answers are correct
b. Postmodernism
