Why does family stability decline more in immigrant families that move to a neighborhood in the new country where they are required to assimilate faster?
a. The stress of the move alone upsets the psychological welfare of all family members.
b. Often the children assimilate faster and as the parents need to rely upon them for everyday living, the power structure of the family changes.
c. Learning a new language prohibits the family from acquiring the basic needs and stress increases.
d. There are typically fewer educational and financial resources in these neighborhoods.
e. Research has actually shown that families who are required to assimilate faster form stronger bonds and remain more stable.
Q. 2When a counselor help clients prepare for predictable change by asking how they imagine they will deal with it and helping them rehearse in advance, the counselor is engaging in a ________________________ process.
a. systemic
b. debriefing
c. psychoanalytic
d. dramatic relief
e. stress inoculation
Q. 3How do family systems practitioners view knowledge of the family life cycle?
a. Each of the events in the family life cycle affects all family members. Understanding these predictable shifts in family dynamics provides useful insights to practitioners.
b. Practitioners endeavor to understand each unique family system, ignoring generalizations such as family life cycles.
c. Systems practitioners focus more on individual psychosocial development than on the family life cycle.
d. Most crises that affect families are not related to life cycle development. As a result, systems practitioners study impacts of crime, violence, chronic illness, and so forth on family members.
Q. 4How do family systems practitioners view historical information?
a. They all collect extensive information on the history of the family dynamics and the presenting problem.
b. Systems practitioners focus on the present, ignoring historical data.
c. There is no agreement among systems practitioners regarding family history.
d. They agree that history is a driving force in the present. However, they do not agree on whether understanding it is necessary for positive change.
e. Systems practitioners gather historical information on the identified patient but not on the rest of the family.
Q. 5What is Bowens multigenerational transmission process?
a. A treatment approach that is used where more than one generation is involved in the therapy process.
b. The way generations communicate with one another.
c. The process by which patterns of relating within the family are passed down, as are many other assumptions about family and world.
d. The fact that children display characteristics of biological family members even if they are raised in families other than their families of origin.
e. The way that the family interacts with the rest of the world.
Q. 6Who is credited with conceptualizing the term multigenerational transmission process?
a. Chloe Madanes
b. Murray Bowen
c. Rudolf Dreikurs
d. Virigina Satir
e. Jay Haley
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