Deck 9: Understanding Families Family Assessment

Question 1

Which of the following statements is the most accurate?

A)Generalist social work practitioners are also, by definition, family therapists
B)A family is a primary group whose members assume certain obligations for each other and generally share common residences
C)When working with families, family therapists must address a broader variety of problems than generalist practitioners
D)Family norms are individually prescribed patterns of behavior reinforced by the expectations of the family

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The format for examining how readily a particular family can obtain necessary, available resources that was described in the text is entitled:

A)Financial acquisitions budget record
B)Family access to basic resources
C)Financial activities basic record
D)Fiscal accurate budget of resources

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The following is (are) true about family norms:

A)Family norms are socially expected behavior patterns usually determined by an individual's status
B)Many times the most powerful norms are those that are not clearly and verbally stated
C)In families with problems, family norms usually do not allow the family or the individual members to function effectively and productively
D)b and c only

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Secondary or subordinate groups within families are called:

A)Family norms
B)Family structures
C)Subsystems
D)Family roles

Question 5

Which of the following is (are) true about family interactions and communication?

A)What one family member might say in words to another member may not be what that sender really means
B)Critical nonverbal communication may involve any number of seemingly petty behaviors
C)Trivial behaviors often transcend nonverbal behaviors
D)a and b are true

Question 6

_____ are individually prescribed patterns of behavior reinforced by the expectations and norms of the family.

A)Family norms
B)Family structures
C)Subsystems
D)Family roles

Question 7

Approximately _____ percent of babies are born to unmarried women in the United States.

A)30
B)40
C)50
D)60

Question 8

Of the five avenues of communication, ______ refers to the extent to which the communication receiver accurately hears and understands the sender of the communication.

A)Consonance
B)Submission
C)Condemnation
D)Indifference

Question 9

Of the five avenues of communication, ______ involves feeling so downtrodden, guilt-ridden, or incapable that you succumb completely to another's will.

A)Submission
B)Condemnation
C)Intellectualization
D)Indifference

Question 10

The text lists categories of conflicts and problems in families.  All of the following are included except :

A)External environment
B)Partner difficulties
C)Parent-child relationship
D)Educational

Question 11

The social work role in which practitioners find out what services are available and how to make a connection with families in need of these services is called:

A)Brokering
B)Counseling
C)Facilitating
D)Educating

Question 12

Of the five avenues of communication, ______ is the process of staging all communication within a strictly logical, rational realm.

A)Consonance
B)Submission
C)Intellectualization
D)Indifference

Question 13

An alternative to the traditional family life cycle emphasizes:

A)A single list of stages for a typical family life cycle is sufficient and inclusive
B)Risk factors in health and disease
C)Individualized life transitions of clients and their dynamic interaction with their social systems
D)Emotional transition in terms of intimate relationships with other people and on changes of personal status

Question 14

_____ refer to the organization of relationships and patterns of interaction occurring within families.

A)Family norms
B)Family structures
C)Subsystems
D)Family roles

Question 15

The intent of the _____ program is to provide low-income women and their children at risk of insufficient nutrition with food subsidies.

A)WIC
B)Meals on Wheels
C)LWCAR
D)Farm to Table

Question 16

Of the five avenues of communication, ______ involves remaining apparently unconcerned, not caring one way or the other, and appearing detachedly aloof. 

A)Consonance
B)Submission
C)Condemnation
D)Indifference

Question 17

The _____ is a yearly cash income minimum based on family size set by the federal government to determine if an individual or household can be classified as poor.

A)Gross income
B)Resource index
C)Poverty line
D)Poor equivalent

Question 18

Which of the following is true regarding single-parent families?

A)Less than twenty percent of the U.S. families with dependent children are supported by single parents
B)Forty percent of single mothers with children under age six are employed outside of the home
C)Forty-three percent of Hispanic women live below the poverty level
D)African-American women earn about sixty-four percent of what white men earn

Question 19

_____ are invisible lines of demarcation that separate the family from the outside nonfamily environment.

A)Systems
B)Pseudosystems
C)Boundaries
D)Fences

Question 20

_____ involves the application of learning theory principles to real-life situations.

A)Choice theory
B)Behavior modification
C)Cognition theory
D)Position reinforcement

Question 21

An example of the broad range of problems often addressed by generalist practitioners includes homelessness.

Question 22

Because each person and each family is unique, there is no ideal formula for which family roles are best.

Question 23

All of the following principles for assessment of diverse families and empowerment were discussed in the text except :

A)Practice with the knowledge that some behaviors are adjustments to being different
B)Remember that minority populations are usually best served by people of the dominant society because they know how to access the system
C)When working with minority families, know that process is as important as outcome
D)Understand and recognize when values of minority families are in conflict with dominant society values

Question 24

Family structure refers to the organization of relationships and patterns of interaction occurring within the family.

Question 25

The fact that a spouse subsystem needs to maintain its special, unique status within a blended family system is an example of what type of issue commonly faced in blended families:

A)Boundary problems
B)Insiders versus outsiders
C)Discrepant life styles
D)Change and loss

Question 26

Social workers need to identify and understand family norms so that inappropriate, ineffective norms can be changed.

Question 27

Several decades ago, the family life cycle and the types of experiences family members had during specified phases of the cycle were much less predictable than today.

Question 28

Indifference can be a very powerful and manipulative means of communicating.

Question 29

In addition to more formal socially acceptable roles, family members may hold a variety of informal roles, often related to individual personalities and interactional patterns among family members.

Question 30

A family-in-environment focus suggests that an event outside the family affecting one family member will actually have an effect on all family members.

Question 31

Working with families is often considered to lie somewhere on the continuum between mezzo and macro practice.

Question 32

Blended families struggle to achieve a sense of identity in a number of areas including:

A)Unrealistic belief systems
B)Power
C)Insiders versus outsiders
D)All of the above

Question 33

A problem with the intellectualization avenue of communication occurs when the intellectualizer is unable to meet the needs of other family members.

Question 34

In systems theory, boundaries are secondary or subordinate systems that essentially form a system within a system.

Question 35

_____ is the adjustment, change, and maintenance of culture in the family.

A)Acquisition
B)Assimilation
C)Acculturation
D)Actualization

Question 36

Most families go through the traditional family life cycle of unattached young adult, marriage, acquiring and caring for children, rearing adolescent children, launching their children as adults into their own families, and aging.

Question 37

Generalist practitioners are specialists, much like family therapists, in working with families.

Question 38

When soliciting personal information from clients, it is best if the social worker refrains from using self-disclosure.

Question 39

Hyde and DeLamater propose that effective sex education programs include:

A)Promotion of chastity
B)Focus on risk-reduction
C)Strict "Just say no" philosophy
D)All of the above

Question 40

People who form patterns of condemnation in their avenues of family communication frequently do it to enhance their own self-esteem.

Question 41

Identify the four major categories in which family conflicts and problems tend to be clustered.

Question 42

Research has proven that sex education programs have been ineffective in delaying first intercourse.

Question 43

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.

Question 44

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.

Question 45

Identify and explain the five avenues of communication described in the text concerning the assessment of family communication.

Question 46

Very few teen fathers are significantly affected by their child's birth.

Question 47

School adjustment of children in diverse families is an important component in family assessment.

Question 48

Describe the six major phases of the traditional family life cycle.

Question 49

What is your definition of family? Does this differ from your parents' or grandparents' definition?  How?

Question 50

Sometimes a family will come to a practitioner for help and identify one family member as being the problem.

Question 51

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.

Question 52

Conflicts and problems within families tend to be clustered in four major categories.

Question 53

Active listening and the use of "I-messages" are two principles proposed in choice theory.

Question 54

Why are boundaries important in a family system?

Question 55

The continuum of services suggested by Weatherley and Cartoof for single teenage parents begins with help during pregnancy.