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Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWERS "the unique characteristics of a social grouping sharing
national
origin and linguistic and cultural traditions, with which members may or may not
identify"
Bateson (early 50s) - CORRECT ANSWERS became interested in the communication
patterns of schizophrenics, especially possible contradictions between levels of messages
Bateson and Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWERS By attending to family
communication sequences, he began to redefine
schizophrenia as an interpersonal phenomenon, challenging the psychodynamic
view of schizophrenia as an intrapsychic disorder that then damaged interpersonal
relationships.
--idea of the double bind
--conflicting communication messages
Bowen and Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWERS Bowen thought schizophrenia was a
process that spanned three generations. Asked mothers to move into cottages on grounds of
the hospital where their schizophrenic children resided (mid1950' s)
Bowen Three Generation Concept: - CORRECT ANSWERS ○ Generation 1: One or both
parents are troubled/immature and experienced
problems with their own parents
○ Generation 2: Child of Gen 1 parents marries similarly deficient partner
○ Generation 3: Deficits from Gen 1 are passed onto grandchild in Gen 3 and
schizophrenia develops
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Minuchin (1960s) - CORRECT ANSWERS developed Structural Family Therapy
Monica McGoldrick, - CORRECT ANSWERS influential multigenerational work on family
life cycles. She paid close attention to the powerful influences of culture, class, gender, and
sexual orientation on family patterns.
Schizophrenogenic mother - CORRECT ANSWERS Frieda FrommReichmann
(1948) postulated maternal rejection caused development of male schizophrenia
■ term to denote a domineering, cold, rejecting, possessive, guiltproducing
person who, in combination with a passive, detached and ineffectual
father, causes her male offspring to feel confused and inadequate and
ultimately become schizophrenic
Bowen Family Systems Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS The cornerstone of Family
Systems Theory is the notion that there are forces within the family that lead to individuality
and the opposing forces that make for togetherness
Bowen 8 interlocking theoretical concepts that shape the family - CORRECT ANSWERS
1) Differentiation of self;
2) Emotional triangles;
3) Nuclear family emotional process;
4) Family projection process;
5) Emotional cutoff;
6)Multigenerational transmission process;
7) Sibling position;
8) Societal emotional process
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Fusion - CORRECT ANSWERS ○ Individuals with the greatest fusion between their
thoughts and feelings (for example schizophrenics dealing with their families) function most
poorly; they are likely to be at the mercy of automatic or involuntary emotional reactions and
tend to become dysfunctional even under low levels of anxiety.
Overadequate-Underadequate
Reciprocity - CORRECT ANSWERS one person takes on most or
even all family responsibilities (earning a living, caring for children, cooking,
shopping, arranging social life, etc.) while the other plays the counterpart role of being under
responsible
(can't drive without becoming anxious, can't choose clothes, can't have friends to the house.)
the family projection process - CORRECT ANSWERS This child receives the parents own
low levels of differentiation and
becomes that way him/herself
Sibling Position - CORRECT ANSWERS Toman believed that children developed certain
fixed personality characteristics
Goals of Bowens Family Systems Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Management of
anxiety and relief from symptoms
2. An increase in each participant's level of differentiation in order to improve adaptiveness
(first
goal must be accomplished first before latter can be undertaken, generally)
Structural Family Therapy -Minuchin - CORRECT ANSWERS **Ultimate Goalrestructure
the family's transactional rules by developing more appropriate
boundaries between subsytems and strengthening the famili's hierarchical order
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Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWERS "the unique characteristics of a social grouping sharing
national
origin and linguistic and cultural traditions, with which members may or may not
identify"
Bateson (early 50s) - CORRECT ANSWERS became interested in the communication
patterns of schizophrenics, especially possible contradictions between levels of messages
Bateson and Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWERS By attending to family
communication sequences, he began to redefine
schizophrenia as an interpersonal phenomenon, challenging the psychodynamic
view of schizophrenia as an intrapsychic disorder that then damaged interpersonal
relationships.
--idea of the double bind
--conflicting communication messages
Bowen and Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWERS Bowen thought schizophrenia was a
process that spanned three generations. Asked mothers to move into cottages on grounds of
the hospital where their schizophrenic children resided (mid1950' s)
Bowen Three Generation Concept: - CORRECT ANSWERS ○ Generation 1: One or both
parents are troubled/immature and experienced
problems with their own parents
○ Generation 2: Child of Gen 1 parents marries similarly deficient partner
○ Generation 3: Deficits from Gen 1 are passed onto grandchild in Gen 3 and
schizophrenia develops
,FAMILY THERAPY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATED
2025/2026 A COMPLETE EXAM SOLUTION ALL ANSWERS 100%
ACCURATE BEST GRADED A+ FOR SUCCESS
Minuchin (1960s) - CORRECT ANSWERS developed Structural Family Therapy
Monica McGoldrick, - CORRECT ANSWERS influential multigenerational work on family
life cycles. She paid close attention to the powerful influences of culture, class, gender, and
sexual orientation on family patterns.
Schizophrenogenic mother - CORRECT ANSWERS Frieda FrommReichmann
(1948) postulated maternal rejection caused development of male schizophrenia
■ term to denote a domineering, cold, rejecting, possessive, guiltproducing
person who, in combination with a passive, detached and ineffectual
father, causes her male offspring to feel confused and inadequate and
ultimately become schizophrenic
Bowen Family Systems Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS The cornerstone of Family
Systems Theory is the notion that there are forces within the family that lead to individuality
and the opposing forces that make for togetherness
Bowen 8 interlocking theoretical concepts that shape the family - CORRECT ANSWERS
1) Differentiation of self;
2) Emotional triangles;
3) Nuclear family emotional process;
4) Family projection process;
5) Emotional cutoff;
6)Multigenerational transmission process;
7) Sibling position;
8) Societal emotional process
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Fusion - CORRECT ANSWERS ○ Individuals with the greatest fusion between their
thoughts and feelings (for example schizophrenics dealing with their families) function most
poorly; they are likely to be at the mercy of automatic or involuntary emotional reactions and
tend to become dysfunctional even under low levels of anxiety.
Overadequate-Underadequate
Reciprocity - CORRECT ANSWERS one person takes on most or
even all family responsibilities (earning a living, caring for children, cooking,
shopping, arranging social life, etc.) while the other plays the counterpart role of being under
responsible
(can't drive without becoming anxious, can't choose clothes, can't have friends to the house.)
the family projection process - CORRECT ANSWERS This child receives the parents own
low levels of differentiation and
becomes that way him/herself
Sibling Position - CORRECT ANSWERS Toman believed that children developed certain
fixed personality characteristics
Goals of Bowens Family Systems Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Management of
anxiety and relief from symptoms
2. An increase in each participant's level of differentiation in order to improve adaptiveness
(first
goal must be accomplished first before latter can be undertaken, generally)
Structural Family Therapy -Minuchin - CORRECT ANSWERS **Ultimate Goalrestructure
the family's transactional rules by developing more appropriate
boundaries between subsytems and strengthening the famili's hierarchical order
