Review Quiz: Family Systems Theory and Calgary Family Assessment

Two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and/or financial support

• General Systems Theory

• Family

• Triangles

• Calgary Family Assessment Theory

How many interconnected concepts are part of the Family Systems Theory?

• Five

• Nine

• Three

• Eight

This concept explains the transmission of problems from parent to child

• Family Projection Process

• Multigenerational Transmission Process

• Emotional Cutoff

• Societal Emotional Process and Regression

Awareness of individual birth order in both past and present generations

• Nuclear Family Emotional Process

• Differentiation of Self

• Sibling Position

• Societal Emotional Process

The immature separation of people from each other due to unresolved emotional issues with parents, siblings, and other family members

• Nuclear Family Emotional Process

• Emotional Cutoff

• Triangles

• Family Systems Theory

(T/F): The Family Systems Theory focuses more on the individual and less on the individual's relationships.

• True

• False

(T/F): The Family Systems Theory was developed by psychiatrist Murray Bowen.

• True

• False

Two siblings are having a disagreement and their parent steps in to dispute the argument. What is this an example of?

• Nuclear Family Emotional Process

• Emotional Cutoff

• Triangulation

• Sibling Position

Which concept is referred to as the building block of the Family Systems Theory?

• Multigenerational Transmission Process

• Family Projection Process

• Societal Emotional Process

• Differentiation of Self

(Select all that apply): What makes up a family system according to the Family Systems Theory?

• Social system consisting of three generations

• Interrelated/Interdependent system

• Group of isolated individuals

• Group that shares common goals