Chapter 10: Families

Question 1

Differentiation of self:

Differentiation between thinking and feeling.

Answer 1

Family members must learn to own and recognize their own feelings.

It is assumed that many family problems are based on family members’ emotional reactivity to each other.

Question 2

Genogram

Answer 2

Graphic picture of family history

Question 3

Non-normative stressors

Answer 3

Potentially catastrophic events (not planned)

ie: natural disasters

Question 4

Cultural variant approach

Answer 4

Different does not mean deviant or deficient.

We are inevitably guided by what we consider healthy.

Question 5

Family systems perspective

Answer 5

This approach requires a focus on relationships within the family rather than on individual family members.

Question 6

Family life cycle perspective

Answer 6

Expands family system to look at families over time.

Question 7

Triangulation

Answer 7

Two family members inappropriately involve another family member to reduce the anxiety in the didactic relationship.

Question 8

Multilevel family practice model

Answer 8

Widens framework to include the larger systems in which the family system is embedded.

(ie: neighborhood, nation)

Question 9

Normative stressors

Answer 9

Typical family life-cycle transitions.

ie birth of a child

Question 10

Family of origin

Answer 10

The family into which we were born and raised.

Question 11

ABCX model:

Maladaptation

Answer 11

Permanent deterioration in the family’s functioning.

Question 12

ABCX model:

Bonadaptation

Answer 12

Improvement in the family’s functioning over and above previous levels.

Question 13

Stress pile up

Answer 13

Over time a series of crisis may deplete the family resources and expose the family to increasing risk of negative outcomes.

Question 14

Differentiation of self:

Differentiation between the self and other members of the family

Answer 14

Individuals should follow their own beliefs rather than make decisions based on reacting to the cues of others or approval.

Question 15

Family time line

Answer 15

Chronology depicting key dates and events in the family’s life, which can be used to locate both stressors and strengths.

Question 16

Developmental social construction view

Answer 16

Current social institutions along with their policies and programs have evolved over time and can therefore be changed.

Question 17

Strengths perspective

Answer 17

Help family members identify how they have coped creatively with adversity in the past may help them find hope for making changes to present.

Question 18

Ecomap

Answer 18

Using circles and mines and arrows to show family relationships.

Help social works identify external sources of stress, conflict, social support.

Question 19

ABCX model:

Recovery

Answer 19

Get back to family’s previous level of functioning.

Question 20

ABCX model of family stress and coping

Answer 20

To understand whether an event in family system becomes a crisis we also need to understand both family resources and family’s definition of the event.