Deck 2: Family Development: Continuity and Change

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of a discontinuous life change?

A)Death of a grandparent
B)Death of a young child
C)Becoming parents
D)None of the answers are correct.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Most of today's immigrants to the United States come from:

A)Eastern Europe
B)Western Europe.
C)Asia and Latin America
D)Europe and Asia.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to the authors,the most significant milestone in a family's life cycle is usually:

A)deciding to marry.
B)choosing a career
C)the arrival of children.
D)deciding on a life style.

Question 5

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 answers are correct.

Question 6

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.

Question 7

The developmental framework for studying families was first proposed by family:

A)therapists.
B)counselors.
C)sociologists.
D)social workers.

Question 8

Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?

A)A heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
B)Launching children
C)Initial experiences of sexual exploration
D)Consolidating gender

Question 9

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.

Question 10

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 answers are correct.

Question 11

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.

Question 12

Breunlin contends that family development usually:

A)occurs in discrete shifts from stage to stage
B)occurs in discontinuous shifts from stage to stage.
C)involves centripetal and centrifugal periods.
D)occurs as gradual oscillations.

Question 13

The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:

A)introducing them to school.
B)introducing them to social groups
C)experimenting with late teen independence.
D)parents letting go and facing each other.

Question 14

Which of the following constitutes a horizontal stressor?

A)Family expectations
B)Birth of a handicapped child
C)Ethnic loyalties
D)Family secrets

Question 15

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.

Question 16

An example of a vertical stressor is:

A)a family coping with changes over time
B)dealing with family transitions.
C)precocious physical development in a child.
D)attitudes passing down over generations.

Question 17

Combrinck-Graham suggests that family development frequently alternates between:

A)centripetal and centrifugal periods.
B)horizontal and vertical stresses.
C)stage oscillations.
D)linear and circular causality.

Question 18

The leading advocates today of a multidimensional,multicultural view of the life cycle concept are:

A)Duvall and Hill.
B)Duvall and Miller.
C)Carter and Strauss.
D)Carter and McGoldrick.

Question 19

The developmental approach to family life focuses upon the family's:

A)organization and structure.
B)pathology patterns.
C)life cycle.
D)operations as a social system

Question 20

Which of the following is not an example of a discontinuous life style change event in a family's history?

A)Birth of a handicapped child
B)Father's retirement
C)Birth of a child to midlife parents
D)Birth of a child to a teenage girl

Question 21

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.

Question 22

_____________________ The series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a family's life,offering an organizing schema for viewing the family as a system proceeding through time.​

Question 23

About how many divorces occur annually in the US today?

A)2 million
B)1 million
C)Over 5 million
D)Between 1/2 and 3/4 of a million

Question 24

Which of the following is not true?

A)Gay adults are less fit parents than straight adults
B)Lesbian women do not differ from heterosexual women in their child rearing practices
C)There are 12 to 15 million children living with gay or lesbian parents in the US
D)Gay and lesbian families are as diverse as heterosexual families

Question 25

Critique the stage model by identifying some of the strengths and potential weaknesses of looking at a family with this particular framework.

Question 26

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 answers are correct

Question 27

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

Question 28

Which statement below is not characteristic of lesbian parents:

A)They have similar life cycle stresses to heterosexual parents.
B)They may rely on donor insemination to have children​
C)They may adopt children.
D)They have children who are just as gender stereotyped as heterosexual parents

Question 29

What is the approximate percentage of gay or lesbian parents?

A)1%
B)5%
C)10%
D)None of the answers are correct

Question 30

_____________________ A post divorced family structure in which the former spouses reside in separate households and function as two separate units;although living separately,their nuclear family is thus restructured but remains intact.

Question 31

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.

Question 32

_____________________ Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at various stages of the life cycle,enabling movement to the next developmental stage.

Question 33

These are activities or experiences that need to be mastered at various stages in the family life cycle to enable the family to move to the next developmental stage.

A)Life cycles
B)Family framework
C)Developmental tasks
D)Multidimentsional stage

Question 34

Any generalizations in the family life cycle model should be seen within the context of what?

A)Class,culture,and historical period
B)Marital status​
C)Developmental stage
D)Sexual orientation

Question 35

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.

Question 36

Families with an adolescent frequently must deal with:

A)rule changing.
B)limit setting.
C)role renegotiation
D)All of the answers are correct

Question 37

_____________________ A higher-level system in which other systems represent component parts and play subsystem roles.

Question 38

In a joint legal custody arrangement,both parents:.none of the answers are correct

A)remain living together but in separate quarters of the home
B)have physical custody of the children for several days each week
C)share decision-making regarding child raising issues
D)none of the answers are correct

Question 39

Custodial and non-custodial single parents share the following problems:

A)arranging day-to-day child care.
B)conflicting loyalties.
C)rebuilding social networks.
D)returning to their family of origin homes.

Question 40

What Carter and McGoldrick refer to as "launching children and moving on" is called what by Gerson?

A)Expansion
B)Contraction
C)Life cycling​
D)None of the answers are correct.

Question 41

Define the role of culture in the family life cycle. How does it strengthen or weaken a family's resources through transition periods.

Question 42

Discuss how gay and lesbian families are the same and potentially different than heterosexual families.How might a family therapist approach do therapy with such a family? Give an example

Question 43

Do you agree that all families go through a family life cycle? Should family scientists try to understand the observable and definable transition periods that all families go through? Why or why not?

Question 44

As a helping professional what do you anticipate are the most difficult family life cycle stages? Why? How do you anticipate drawing attention to life cycle issues in the therapy room?