Family Therapy: An Overview
Quizzes QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+
,In the view of family therapists with a functional outlook the
appearance of symptoms in a family member serves as a:
a. sign of illness in the family.
b. family stabilizing device.
c. manifestation of genetic predispositions.
d. None of the answers are correct. - CORRECT ANSWER-b.
family stabilizing device.
According to the text, the major credit for applying
cybernetic principles to human communication belongs to:
a. Wiener.
b. Haley.
c. Bateson.
d. Sluzki. - CORRECT ANSWER-c. Bateson.
The risk of not growing up in an intact family:
a. is a new phenomenon first appearing in the second half of
the 20th century.
b. is largely the result of teenage pregnancies.
c. has been part of American life for a long period of time.
,d. is largely the result of widespread adoptions by single
women. - CORRECT ANSWER-c. has been part of American
life for a long period of time.
, Epistemology refers to:
a. the practice of family therapy rather than individual
therapy.
b. none of the answers are correct.
c. the anthropological investigation of tribal family customs.
d. rules for gaining knowledge and drawing conclusions
about the world. - CORRECT ANSWER-d. rules for gaining
knowledge and drawing conclusions about the world.
The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a
dialogue rather than observing from outside is probably an
advocate of:
a. first-order cybernetics
b. neither first-order nor second-order cybernetics.
c. second-order cybernetics
d. both first-order and second-order cybernetics. -
CORRECT ANSWER-c. second-order cybernetics
A family's influence over its members is likely to cease upon:
a. physical separation by large distances.
b. death of the patriarch.
c. none of the answers are correct.
Quizzes QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+
,In the view of family therapists with a functional outlook the
appearance of symptoms in a family member serves as a:
a. sign of illness in the family.
b. family stabilizing device.
c. manifestation of genetic predispositions.
d. None of the answers are correct. - CORRECT ANSWER-b.
family stabilizing device.
According to the text, the major credit for applying
cybernetic principles to human communication belongs to:
a. Wiener.
b. Haley.
c. Bateson.
d. Sluzki. - CORRECT ANSWER-c. Bateson.
The risk of not growing up in an intact family:
a. is a new phenomenon first appearing in the second half of
the 20th century.
b. is largely the result of teenage pregnancies.
c. has been part of American life for a long period of time.
,d. is largely the result of widespread adoptions by single
women. - CORRECT ANSWER-c. has been part of American
life for a long period of time.
, Epistemology refers to:
a. the practice of family therapy rather than individual
therapy.
b. none of the answers are correct.
c. the anthropological investigation of tribal family customs.
d. rules for gaining knowledge and drawing conclusions
about the world. - CORRECT ANSWER-d. rules for gaining
knowledge and drawing conclusions about the world.
The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a
dialogue rather than observing from outside is probably an
advocate of:
a. first-order cybernetics
b. neither first-order nor second-order cybernetics.
c. second-order cybernetics
d. both first-order and second-order cybernetics. -
CORRECT ANSWER-c. second-order cybernetics
A family's influence over its members is likely to cease upon:
a. physical separation by large distances.
b. death of the patriarch.
c. none of the answers are correct.
