Deck 7: Growing up in an Alcoholic Family System: Adult Children of Alcoholics ACA

Question 1

Which of the following is a behavioral characteristic of adult children of alcoholics (ACA)?

A) Drama & conflict
B) All of none, black or white thinking
C) Difficulty relaxing
D) All of these are correct

Answer 1

All of these are correct

Question 2

Tim Cermak (1984) compared growing up in an alcoholic family as analogous to _______.

A) Motion sickness
B) Dysthymia
C) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
D) Asperger's syndrome

Answer 2

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Question 3

Identify the factor described by John Gottman in his description of "the horsemen of the apocalypse of marriages."

A) Criticism
B) Contempt (nonverbal)
C) Defensiveness
D) All of these are correct

Answer 3

All of these are correct

Question 4

As per Colman and Cogan's work on intimacy dysfunction, which of the following behaviors is associated with overattachment?

A) Controlling others
B) Being compulsively independent
C) Being self-sacrificing
D) Acting to guard feelings

Question 5

Which of the following metaphors did Tim Cermak use to describe codependency?

A) Lacking independent action, thinking, and achievement
B) Being a lifeguard on a crowded beach, knowing that you cannot swim, and not telling anyone for fear of a panic
C) An investment of self-esteem in the ability to control the self and others
D) Being small

Question 6

Codependent partners are often engaged in a "dance" with their alcoholic/addict partners. Which of the following is one of the common features of the codependent dances performed by these couples?

A) Shame-based styles of communicating and interacting
B) Abandoning unresolved conflicts or issues
C) Being continuously unable to feel proud of a partner
D) Having difficulty communicating with family members

Question 7

Which of the following is a diagnostic category recently associated with ACA?

A) Hepatitis C
B) Autism
C) Atypical depression
D) Parkinson's disease

Question 8

Children growing up in alcoholic families typically do not have the opportunity to do grief work. Which of the following analogies does Fields us in describing this process?

A) The writing of a letter to express feelings and thoughts to one's parents
B) The improper healing of a cut
C) The tangled up string of wires of a mobile network
D) None of these are correct

Question 9

Which of the following curative factors as described by Irvin D. Yalom makes group psychotherapy an effective process?

A) Instilling hope, sharing universality, and imparting information
B) Recapitulating the primary family group
C) Sharing catharsis
D) All of these are correct