Foundations of couple & family

Question 1

mechanisms within families maintain a current state of….? which make family members resistant to change and must be disturbed for change to occur.

Answer 1

Homeostasis

Question 2

a system that has rigid, impermeable boundaries and does not interact with its environment- is what type of system?

Answer 2

Closed system

Question 3

a system that has permeable boundaries, interacts with its environment, and is adaptable and receptive to change-type of system?

Answer 3

Open system

Question 4

this term occurs when partners are preoccupied with their own problems, they don’t accommodate to each other’s roles, and compete for their childs affection, loyalty, and support-
can occur within the schizophrenia families

Answer 4

marital schism

Question 5

this type of terms occurs when one partner is extremely controlling and the other submissive and dependent, distorts reality by pretending the family is normal
-schizophrenia study term

Answer 5

marital skew

Question 6

term that predicts that schizophrenia develops in a child when the child is repeatedly exposed to contradictory verbal and nonverbal messages from his/her parents and not allowed to comment on the contradictions
-study by bateson, Jackson, Hayley, and Weakland

Answer 6

double-bind hypothesis

Question 7

What year did the evolution of family therapy begin?

Answer 7

1950’s

Question 8

What year was the “rush to practice” ? that relied on principles and strategies
-Salvadore Minuchin was involved heavily in this year

Answer 8

1960’s

Question 9

What year were innovative techniques and self examination in?
-number of studies were conducted and investigated that began to be recognized

Answer 9

1970’s

Question 10

What year did family therapy gain professional and respectable recognition in journals and other organizations?
-second order cybernetics begin in this year

Answer 10

1980’s

Question 11

What year did the trend start as integrating and eclecticism begin?

• recognition of culture and spiritual individuals in research begin
• influence of social constructionism started

Answer 11

1990’s

Question 12

What year did “moving beyond simply examining relationships within a family to adding an ecosystemic view concerned with social systems within which family’s function in order to more fully understand the current diversity of family experiences..”
-ecological context, multisystemic interventions, and evidence based practices

Answer 12

2000-present

Question 13

When did MFT evolve?

Answer 13

when changing social dynamics and after WWII

Question 14

Key contributors to family therapy based on what 5 factors ? name who and what

Answer 14

• Goldenberg & Goldenberg
  1. extension of psychological tx including working with the whole family
  2. intro to general systems theory; emphasis on exploring relationships among the parts
  3. investigation of family and schizophrenia
  4. development of the field of child guidance and marital counseling
  5. increased interest in group therapy

Question 15

what did therapists find about the family system in the 1950’s? 2 things..

Answer 15

Found that when the patient got better, someone else in the family got worse; and when the patient’s improvement didn’t last when brought back home.

Question 16

Alfred Adler described this term as: “developing a style of life in which they had concern for their fellow humans..so that their success would depend on genuine care and concern for others rather than the need to feel superior”

Answer 16

Social interest

Question 17

first to believe that treating children might be the best way to prevent the development of mental problems..who?

Answer 17

Alfred Adler

Question 18

Who opened the first marriage counseling center in NYC?

Answer 18

Abraham and Hannah Stone

Question 19

Who introduced the term “ conjoint therapy” in 1959?

Answer 19

Don Jackson

Question 20

Kurt Lewin used what type of groups as research for observations?

Answer 20

Encounter groups and T-groups