In which approach to family counseling do family counselors describe family members' communication in terms of nonproductive roles such as placater or distractor?
a. psychodynamic family counseling
b. experiential family counseling
c. behavioral family counseling
d. structural family counseling
Q. 2Which of the following describes morphogenesis?
a. The family is greater than the sum of its parts.
b. The same origin may lead to different outcomes, and the same outcomes may result from different origins.
c. Family functioning is based on both explicit and implicit rules
d. The ability of a family system to modify its functioning to meet the changing demands of external factors
Q. 3Which of the following describes nonsummativity?
a. The family is greater than the sum of its parts.
b. The same origin may lead to different outcomes, and the same outcomes may result from different origins.
c. Family functioning is based on both explicit and implicit rules
d. The ability of a family system to modify its functioning to meet the changing demands of external factors
Q. 4Which of the following therapies fosters the development of more secure attachment styles in couples by focusing on emotions?
a. Rational-emotive behavior therapy
b. Strategic-structural therapy
c. Emotionally focused therapy
d. None of the above
Q. 5Which of the following is an objective of the Bowen family systems approach?
a. an attempt to create an individuated person with a healthy self-concept who can couple and not experience undue anxiety every time the relationship becomes stressful.
b. to get couples to try new behaviors because their old behaviors are not working.
c. to help couples challenge and change their belief systems about activating events.
d. none of the above.
Q. 6In Bowen family systems theory, _______________ is undifferentiated emotional togetherness.
a. cutoff
b. triangulation
c. fusion
d. sensorimotor fixation
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