Second-order change is:
a. when a family manages to deceive the therapist.
b. when a symptom is temporarily removed but secondarily returns because the family system has not been changed.
c. when symptom and system are repaired.
d. when a system is partially changed.
Q. 2The tendency for boys to prefer math and girls to prefer English may be caused, in part, by _______:
a. genetic aptitude
b. left brain, right brain dominance
c. natural ability
d. pressure to conform to sex-typed behaviors
Q. 3Which of the following is true of Minuchin's work?
a. He developed his therapy style while working in a child development center in an affluent neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
b. Both in therapy, he refrained from becoming a member of the family, and he viewed psychosomatic illness as a symptom brought on and maintained by the family.
c. He viewed psychosomatic illness as a symptom brought on and maintained by the family.
d. In therapy, he refrained from becoming a member of the family.
Q. 4Whereas successful professional employment is highly dependent upon intellectual ability, vocational employment typically requires working with _______.
a. concepts
b. one's hands
c. technology
d. details
Q. 5Which of the following is central to Bowen's theory?
a. Paradoxical interventions
b. Understanding family emotional systems
c. Scripts in the family
d. Child development process
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