Exam 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy

A relatively recent development is couples who have adolescents and their aging parents to take care of and who feel they are squeezed psychologically and physically. This development is called:

The family life cycle is useful in studying families from a(n) _____ perspective.

In general, singles are the second happiest demographic group (married couples being the happiest).

Although at first they seem very different, the individual and family life cycle models share an emphasis on:

During the New Couple stage, a major task for the couple is:

Family subsystems include all the following except:

An inability to work through interpersonal issues, such as developing adequate or optimal communication patterns, is one of many issues that may prompt new couples to seek family therapy.

A key task of Stage 1, Leaving Home, of Carter and McGoldrick's life cycle model is:

Families may respond to change by using negative feedback loops, which are loops that:

Circular causality differs from linear causality. In linear causality, _____.

"The more a parent protects a shy child, the shyer the child becomes." This fact is an example of the concept of 'circular causality."

Families may respond to change by using positive feedback loops, which are loops that:

In Stage 5, Launching Children and Moving On, families typically seek family therapy due to:

Definitions of what a family is have remained pretty much the same over generations and across cultures.

Life cycle stages are independent of one another and do not require some level of success before proceeding to the next step.

Erik Erikson, a pioneer in the area of human growth and development, developed an eight stage model of individual development. The first five stages focus on individual skill and identity development. The last three stages focus on:

The three time dimensions referred to as the 'life course' are: