Deck 14: Crisis and Violence in Families

Question 1

In family systems theory, stressors

A) Are events with the potential of causing a major change in a family system.
B) Automatically lead to a crisis.
C) Are resources used to prevent a crisis.
D) Occur only when coping mechanisms are adequate.
E) Are individual, not system, phenomena.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In Hill's ABC-X model, the C is

A) A crisis.
B) Family resources.
C) A stressor event.
D) The interpretation of the stressor.
E) Pileup of stressors.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

A normative-developmental stressor is one that

A) Ordinary coping mechanisms have no trouble dealing with.
B) Exhausts family resources.
C) Is an expected part of the family developmental process.
D) Happens quickly and then is over with.
E) Changes the norms whereby families define their relationships.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Symbolic interactionist theory is most relevant to understanding which component of Hill's ABC-X model?

A) A crisis.
B) Family resources.
C) A stressor event.
D) The interpretation of the stressor.
E) Coping behavior.

Question 5

McCubbin's model of family crisis differs from Hill's in that

A) McCubbin simplified Hill's model
B) McCubbin's model omits the concept of perception of the stressor.
C) McCubbin's model adds the concept of "pileup".
D) McCubbin's model omits the impact that going through one crisis might have on the outcome of another potential crisis.
E) Hill's model is more recent.

Question 6

"A person who puts forth a particular view of reality in support of, or in response to, a social movement"

A) Is the definition of a moral entrepreneur.
B) Is the definition of a claims maker.
C) Operates only during the coalescence stage of a social movement.
D) Both (a) and (c).
E) Both (b) and (c).

Question 7

Mauss's terms incipiency, coalescence, fragmentation, and demise are used to expand the idea that

A) Over time, a society will eventually arrive at the truth of the matter.
B) Social movements have a natural history, career, or developmental cycle.
C) Social change is difficult, but always for the better.
D) Individual change must precede social change.
E) Social change tends to be cyclic in nature.

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a way to have a successful social movement?

A) Convince people that there is a widespread social evil.
B) Convince people that there are deserving victims.
C) Convince people that something can be done.
D) Be very care always to tell the objective truth.
E) ALL the above were mentioned.

Question 9

If we look at the history of child abuse using today's definitions of child abuse,

A) We might conclude that "parents in the past had the right to abuse their children."
B) We are engaging in presentism.
C) We would find that there was very little child abuse.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 10

The Puritan's "rebellious sons" law

A) Imposed the death penalty on sons who cursed or hit a parent.
B) Was taken from the Bible.
C) Resulted in several deaths before it was finally repealed.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 11

The Mary Ellen case

A) Was the most severe case of child abuse ever known up to that time.
B) Involved a child being raised by foster parents.
C) Had to be tried in court as a cruelty to animals case.
D) Resulted in the demise of the child cruelty movement.
E) All of the above.

Question 12

In comparing child abuse and child neglect, it is true that

A) Abuse is action taken that should not have been taken.
B) Neglect is a failure to take action that should be taken.
C) Abuse is always more serious than neglect.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 13

The importance of discussing the charavari in western Europe is that

A) It shows how much power men had over women.
B) It is evidence that spouse abuse was not acceptable to community norms.
C) It provides the legal basis for today's child abuse laws.
D) It shows the power of religious authority in regulation of family behavior.
E) It had no influence on American values and attitudes.

Question 14

The phrase "wife beating"

A) Was used in ancient Greece and Rome.
B) Was found in the same section of English Common Law as the phrase Rule of Thumb.
C) Was first used in England in 1856 in a campaign for divorce reform.
D) Originated at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
E) Was first used by feminist groups in the 1970s.

Question 15

Lenore Walker's "cycle of violence"

A) Was strongly opposed to the "women as pure victim" image of spouse abuse.
B) Said that the explosion, or battering incident, was unpredictable because there was no preceding stage of tension building.
C) Said that the explosion is followed by a "loving and contrite" stage.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (c) above.

Question 16

Polling data beginning in 1968 has asked people whether they could imagine a situation in which they would approve of a husband slapping a wife or a wife slapping a husband. The results have shown

A) The percent that could imagine approving a husband slapping a wife has been significantly reduced.
B) The percent that could imagine approving a wife slapping a husband has been significantly reduced.
C) The percent approving has remained constant for both situations.
D) The percent approving has gone up for both situation.
E) Wife slapping approval is up but husband slapping approval has remained constant.

Question 17

As measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale, Strauss and Gelles found that

A) The incidence of mutual violence is greater than the incidence of either wife only or husband only violence.
B) Husbands and wives are about equally violent toward their partners.
C) Husbands are considerably more violent toward their wives than are wives toward their husbands.
D) Both (a) and (b) above.
E) Both (a) and (c) above.

Question 18

The women's shelter/feminist view of domestic violence and the view from such research as the Conflict Tactics Scale are different in many ways. Michael Johnson's research to resolve this difference concluded that

A) The women's shelter/feminist view is correct.
B) The Conflict Tactics Scale view is correct.
C) Neither view accurately describes any type of domestic violence.
D) There are several types of domestic violence, and the two camps are looking at different types.
E) The Conflict Tactics Scale view is correct about domestic violence in the past, but the women's shelter/feminist view is correct about domestic violence today.

Question 19

According to data on victimization of violent crimes of all types, it is true that

A) Married people have considerably lower victimization rates than do never-married or divorced people.
B) Men are more likely to be victims of violent crimes than are women.
C) For both men and women, the categories least likely to be victims are widow/widower.
D) All the above.
E) Only (a) and (c) above.

Question 20

Regarding race and class correlates of family violence,

A) Family violence occurs in all income and racial groups.
B) Rates are higher among blue-collar than among white-collar workers.
C) Whites have lower rates than do Blacks and Hispanics.
D) All the above.
E) Only (a) and (c) above

Question 21

Research on the "intergenerational transmission of violence" has found that

A) Exposure to any type of violence in one's family of orientation is associated with any type of violence in one's family of procreation.
B) There are intergenerational associations for spouse abuse but not for child abuse.
C) There are intergenerational associations for child abuse but not for spouse abuse.
D) No such association exists.
E) The percentage of child abusers who were themselves abused is lower than the percentage of abused children who will abuse their own children.

Question 22

Which of the following findings supports the resource theory of family violence?

A) The intergenerational transmission of family violence.
B) Women with more education and independent income are more likely to leave an abusive relationship than are women without education and income.
C) Most abusers have impulse control problems.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 23

When dealing with an alcoholic who returns to his family, a family systems theorist would warn that

A) The genetic potential for alcoholism is powerful, and might be triggered by being around family members who have the same gene.
B) Systems tend toward equilibrium, and there might be subtle system pressure for the alcoholic to begin drinking again.
C) The alcoholic might not yet have worked through his or her childhood traumas.
D) The alcoholic might not yet have learned to handle success.
E) Maybe it was only the alcohol that helped the individual cope with an otherwise dysfunctional family.

Question 24

A criticism family counselors have made about individual therapy is that in individual therapy

A) The problem is not seen in the context of a family system.
B) There is less check on the perceived reality maintained by the client.
C) The voice of less powerful people in the family is less likely to be heard.
D) All of the above.
E) Only (a) and (b) above.

Question 25

The same event might cause a crisis in one family but not in another. Explain why this is true, using Hill's ABC-X model.

Question 26

What does McCubbin' model add to Hill's?

Question 27

How does social movements theory explain the phenomenon of child abuse?

Question 28

What does the charavari tell us about the roles of men and women in marriage?

Question 29

What role did the work of Lenore Walker play in the shelter movement/feminist view of spouse abuse?

Question 30

Compare the views of spouse abuse held by the shelter movement/feminist camp with those who measured abuse using the Conflict Tactics Scale. How can these two views be reconciled?

Question 31

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of individual counseling and family counseling.