Deck 3: Mindfulness and Family Stress

Question 1

When families can have chronic stressors or experience one stress leading to another stress, a ______ is created.

A) stressor pileup
B) superstressor
C) stress overflow
D) stress overload

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The ______ was created to understand how minority families (in the United States) experience stress.

A) intersecting stressors perspective
B) mundane extreme environmental stress theory
C) environmental microaggression stressor pileup theory
D) the ABC-X model

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What does the term "mundane" refer to in the mundane extreme environmental stress theory?

A) Everyone is prejudiced to some extent, and some people assume that bigotry is a normal part of life.
B) Mundane is a way to indicate the emphasis of the theory is on stressor pileup.
C) Bigotry was so common that it was embedded in the daily lives of minority group members.
D) It indicates that even in a normal environment, stress can occur and become overwhelming.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which model, based in the mundane extreme environmental stress theory, by including an intersectional approach, allows for a broader application to many structures of families and the many processes within them?

A) mindfulness-based stress reduction theory
B) adjacent explanatory theory
C) the ABC-X model
D) sociocultural family stress model

Question 5

Bioecological theory is considered a ______ theory and not specifically a family stress theory.

A) anthropological
B) human development
C) cognitive
D) sociological

Question 6

Every day, Brooke eats breakfast with her father, is driven to her daycare by her stepbrother, stays with her teacher until it is time to go home, and is picked up by her stepbrother. She eats dinner with her family every night. In the bioecological theory, what are these daily interactions called?

A) context
B) person characteristics
C) proximal processes
D) environment

Question 7

In the bioecological theory, micro, meso, exo, or macro are examples of ______.

A) beliefs
B) idiosyncrasies
C) societies
D) contexts

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of chronic stress?

A) Jennifer is an alcoholic.
B) Rika gets into a car accident.
C) Alex is kicked off the track team.
D) Morgan is expelled senior year.

Question 9

When referenced within Buddhism, mindfulness refers to ______.

A) awareness of the body and its processes
B) finding joy in suffering
C) attentiveness to the present
D) awareness of others

Question 10

When discussed as part of mindfulness-based stress reduction, ______ refers to "paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally."

A) awareness
B) meditation
C) clarity
D) mindfulness

Question 11

Which of the following is a criticism of the empirical evidence for mindfulness?

A) poor methodology
B) falsified data
C) lack of contemporary studies
D) flawed concepts

Question 12

What kind of program is dialectical behavior therapy?

A) intensive practice-based program
B) intensive skill-based program
C) cognitive skill-based program
D) meditative application-based program

Question 13

Which mindfulness program has received the most empirical support?

A) the perspective taking approach
B) Aabbcc-Xx model
C) dialectical behavior therapy
D) mindfulness-based stress reduction

Question 14

Within mindfulness-based stress reduction, sitting meditation, walking, body scan, and gentle mindful movement are all considered ______ practices.

A) formal
B) informal
C) emotional
D) cognitive

Question 15

What do mindfulness-based stress reduction and dialectical behavior therapy have in common?

A) They were both developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
B) They were both designed to address physical pain and emotional suffering.
C) They are both associated with the Chicago school of mindfulness.
D) They were both originally developed in the 1950s.

Question 16

Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents utilizes a ______ model.

A) family stress
B) ecological
C) biosocial
D) classical conditioning

Question 17

Participating in mindfulness meditation exercises may impact one's experience of ______.

A) time
B) reality
C) dreams
D) spatial relationships

Question 18

What does "dialectic" refer to in dialectical behavior therapy?

A) the intersecting layers of oppression
B) the joining of opposites: acceptance and change
C) the multiple facets of the approach
D) the rejection of a disease-based model

Question 19

What is the core value of dialectical behavior therapy?

A) normalizing stress-related behavior
B) changing the situational context of poor behavior
C) accepting the person just as they are
D) identifying behaviors and thoughts that must change

Question 20

What is central in the study, understanding, and explanation of the scholarship on family stress?

A) how social context influences stress
B) how to reconcile acceptance and change
C) how families can minimize stress
D) how families respond to stress and stressors

Question 21

What does the "A" stand for in the ABC-X model of family stress?

A) the resources that families have to respond
B) the stressful event
C) the resultant crises that the family experiences
D) the perspective of the event that the family has

Question 22

Joan's therapist takes a twofold approach toward treating Joan's borderline personality disorder. First, she emphasizes accepting Joan, just as she is. Second, she encourages Joan to identify specific behaviors to work on changing. Which approach is this an example of?

A) the perspective taking approach
B) Aabbcc-Xx model
C) dialectical behavior therapy
D) mindfulness-based stress reduction

Question 23

Bobby is already in therapy when his parents divorce due to his father's infidelity. He has a close relationship with the kids next door, whose parents are also divorced. The divorce becomes very acrimonious, leading Bobby to double his therapy sessions. When applying the ABC-X model of family stress, what part of the example is aligned with "B?"

A) the divorce becoming acrimonious
B) Bobby's therapy sessions
C) Bobby's parent divorcing
D) the divorced parents of his friends next door

Question 24

One of the assumptions of the ABC-X model is that when families experience a stressful event, ______.

A) they address it or adapt to it
B) they have resources to address it
C) some family members will not be affected
D) all family members experience it together

Question 25

One issue with integrating mindfulness into the family stress literature is that ______.

A) it is not possible to teach people to be mindful
B) mindfulness is a religious idea
C) mindfulness is a difficult concept to define
D) mindfulness is a personality characteristic

Question 26

Mindfulness-based relationship enhancement is designed to be utilized by couples already in crisis.

Question 27

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was originally developed to treat elders with suicidal ideation.

Question 28

Family stress is a neutral event, neither inherently positive or negative.

Question 29

The A in the ABC-X model represents the resources that families have to respond to a stressor event.

Question 30

Mindfulness became popular during the European renaissance and was practiced only by women.

Question 31

Whether stress is chronic or acute has implications for the extent to which it influences family dynamics.

Question 32

The origin of the term mindfulness derives from the Pali word Sati meaning "to remember."

Question 33

According to the Pew Research Center, the highest percentage of persons who meditate daily in the United States are Jehovah's Witnesses.

Question 34

Mindfulness as a construct is based on the practices of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Question 35

The contemporary secular mindfulness movement harkens back to the late 1970s.

Question 36

How can mindfulness address the stresses caused by systematic/institutional oppression?

Question 37

List sources of structural support for mindfulness practice.

Question 38

Describe how mindfulness can change perspectives.

Question 39

Break down the various components of mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Question 40

Outline bioecological theory.