Exam 10: Assessing Family Functioning in Diverse Family and Cultural Contexts

In the context of family adaptive capacity, describe family strengths and resilience.

A set of broad social sectors that catalog the various ways that all families engage with the outside world is referred to as the:​

An individual in a family holds power because of a chronic condition. This is an example of:

Which of the following create an environment in which primary attachments can flourish, but which, for some families, interfere with successful family functioning and serve to exacerbate presenting problems?

When a mother tells her older child not to interfere when she tries to discipline her younger child, the mother is defining the role of the:

In the context of family rules, which of the following statements is true of implicit rules?

_____ refers to the extent to which a family can achieve its functioning goals, given the demands of family and social life.

Which of the following is a formal role that is socially sanctioned?

Explain family rules and how they can be explored across two dimensions.

In the context of the family systems framework, which of the following statements is true of rigid, inflexible boundaries?​

Which of the following has the right and obligation to provide overall direction to a family, to allocate resources, to manage boundaries, to protect the integrity of the family system in its external relations, and to assign roles to individual members?

Homeostasis is a systems concept that describes the tendency of a system to maintain or preserve:

Describe the steps that should be taken by a social worker when there are worldview differences between the social worker and the family he or she is working with.

The family function of providing secure attachment bonds can be achieved by:

In the context of family stressors, which of the following statements is true of acute stressors?​

In the context of boundaries in a family system, describe internal boundaries.

Discuss family roles and the conflicts associated with them.

In the context of the family systems framework, a family assessment describes families according to their:

People are speaking at a meta-communication level when they:

The Whites family is referred to a social worker for counselling. The referral source summary described the family as a multi-problem family system. In the initial interview, the social worker asks the family members to talk about the activities that they enjoyed doing together before they started having issues with each other. The social worker's question is intended to assess the family: