Advantages of seeing an entire family together include the following:
a. It provides greater insights in terms of understanding the familys dynamics
b. Workers are more likely to side with one person or the other
c. It allows the worker to become the spokesperson for the family member he or she feels is being picked on
d. All of the above
Identify the four major categories in which family conflicts and problems tend to be clustered
What will be an ideal response?
Describe the six major phases of the traditional family life cycle.
What will be an ideal response?
Why are boundaries important in a family system?
What will be an ideal response?
Identify and explain the five avenues of communication described in the text concerning the assessment of family
communication
What will be an ideal response?
What is your definition of family? Does this differ from your parents or grandparents definition? How?
What will be an ideal response?
One of the principles when working with families from diverse cultures is to recognize that primary sources of support
for minority populations are natural helping systems.
a. True
b. False
True
a. True
b. False
When power is an issue in a blended family, the worker needs to help the family clarify as far as possible who has
what power and what that power involves.
When power is an issue in a blended family, the worker needs to help the family clarify as far as possible who has
what power and what that power involves.
If clients are encouraged to change the direction of their values without being aware of what they are doing, they are
being deprived of self-determination.
a. True
b. False
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