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I truly and honestly believe in the power of family systems

• Yes

• No

• Undecided

• Want to...

My main worries as a family therapist are:

This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in his family was as significant for his approach to family therapy as Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis

• Salvador Minuchin

• Jay Hailey

• Murray Bowen

• Carl Whitaker

The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general categories, joining and

• disengaging maneuvers

• taking an "I" position

• paradoxical interventions

• restructuring techniques

The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state is known as

• homeostasis

• the black box concept

• paradox

• complementarity

One problem with treating families as though they were groups like any other group is that:

• it fails to consider the intrapsychic components of family problems

• it fails to appreciate the need for hierarchy and structure

• family members are released from their inhibitions

• there is no problem with treating families like any other group

A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship, and cannot leave or comment is known as a:

• reframe

• complementarity

• quid pro quo

• double bind

A relationship in which husband and wife both pursue careers and share housekeeping and childrearing responsibilities is_____

• complementary

• unrealistic

• competitive

• symmetrical

Communications family therapists hypothesized that normal families can maintain integrity in the face of environmental vagaries through ______________.

• positive feedback

• negative feedback

• metacommunication

• therapeutic double-binds

Explain "homeostasis"