PSY 639 - Marriage and Family Therapy Exam | Verified with 100% Correct Answers
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PSY 639
PSY 639 - Marriage and Family Therapy Exam | Verified with 100% Correct Answers Developmental tasks: a. always involve children b. occur at all stages of the life cycle c. rarely involve family conflict d. always impede family functioning A family stage marker refers to: A family stage marker ref...
a. always involve children
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle
c. rarely involve family conflict
d. always impede family functioning
A family stage marker refers to: A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event
b. a stage of life
c. the final decade of life
d. all of the above
Family stage markers are events in a family's life that:
a. demand a new adaptation
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next
c. mark the close of the childbearing years
d. none of the above
Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family's intergenerational issues
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert
c. are less interested in a family's "stuck" places than are the social constructionists
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists
From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member
represent:
a) intrapsychic distress
b) interpersonal distress
c)a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the
cycle
d) a learned response to anxiety
Early developmental schemes typically described:
,a. immigrant families
b .intact middle-class American families
c. all families covered in the 1940 census
d. only childless families
Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
a) structuralists
b) social constructionists
c) behaviorists
d) cognitive-behaviorists
A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
A) it is explanatory rather than descriptive
B) it offers normative data on extended families only
C) it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events
D) it does not deal with transition periods between stages
Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b. launching children
c. initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. consolidating gender
A young adult's primary developmental task is:
a) separating from one's parents without cutting off from them
b) finding a suitable mate
c) realigning relationships with extended families
d) becoming a parent
According to the authors, the most significant milestone in a family's life cycle is usually:
a) deciding to marry
b) the arrival of children
c) choosing a career
d) deciding on a life style
The term "suprasystem" refers to:
a. husband, wife, and first child
b. husband, wife, and all children
c. husband, wife, children, and extended family members
d. husband, wife, and in-laws
, Families with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
a) rule changing
b) role renegotiation
c) limit setting
d) all of the above
As children grow up and leave home, the family's developmental task involves:
a) focusing attention on career development
b) considering retirement shortly
c) dealing with disabilities and death of grandparents
d) creating adult-to-adult relationships between parents and children
Most heads of one-parent households:
a) eventually remarry
b) are sufficiently financially secure so that they do not seek remarriage
c) avoid remarriage until their children are grown
d) can be considered to be non-custodial parents
Stepfamilies typically:
a) cause a disruption in the family life cycle
b) add an additional phase to the life cycle
c) require a restructuring of parent-child relationships
d) all of the above
Developmentally speaking, gay and lesbian adolescents:
a) face entirely different demands to become independent as heterosexual adolescents
b) may experience greater anxiety, secrecy, and shame than heterosexual adolescents
c) have a relatively easy time "coming out" to their parents
d.) experience the same anxiety over their erotic feelings as heterosexual adolescents
True or False: Lesbian parents have children who are just as gender stereotyped as
heterosexual parents.
False
True or False: gay adults are less fit parents than straight adults
false
Name 3 Gender issues
patriarchal behavior
sex-based role assignments
sexist attitudes
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