Deck 4: Intergenerational Models

Question 1

a family system property, differentiation refers to all of the following EXCEPT

A) how the family regulates its internal boundaries
B) the hierarchical alignment of family subsystems
C) how the emotional climate of the family is managed
D) how identity tasks are executed

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Bowen, refers to the extent to which one has successfully resolved emotional attachments to one's family of origin.

A) differentiation of self
B) boundary differentiation
C) triangulation
D) emotional diffusion

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The family projection process

A) involves the triangulation of a child
B) is generally seen as a product of the anxiety and fusion present in the parents' relationship with one another
C) is one way parents lessen the anxiety that they feel about themselves.
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Within the Bowen model, refers to a three-person interaction in which the tension and conflict experienced between two persons is displaced onto a third party.

A) individuation
B) adaptation
C) triangulation
D) sublimation

Question 5

Within the Bowen model, individuals who have unresolved issues with their family of origin are viewed as carrying a heightened degree of into their relationships with others.

A) esteem
B) anxiety
C) self-knowledge
D) all of the above

Question 6

Within the Bowen model, individuals with a poorly differentiated sense of self are

A) capable of separating their emotional from their intellectual functioning
B) likely to fuse within others in personal relationships
C) likely to feel in control of their lives
D) capable of objectivity and clear reasoning

Question 7

With regards to mate selection, Bowen predicts that

A) highly differentiated males will be likely to marry poorly differentiated females
B) individuals who are poorly differentiated will tend to marry others who are well differentiated
C) individuals tend to marry others at the same level of differentiation as themselves
D) family of origin issues have no impact on mate selection, but do have consequence for later marital adjustment

Question 8

Within the Bowen model, individuals with a clear sense of self are conceived of as being capable of

A) separating their emotional from their intellectual functioning
B) objectivity
C) clear reasoning
D) all of the above

Question 9

Within the Bowen model, the term is used to refer to an effort by an individual to emotionally, psychologically or physically detach him or herself oneself from the family of origin in an attempt to avoid fusion and to maintain control over one's sense of self.

A) individuation
B) emotional differentiation
C) emotional cutoff
D) boundary disengagement

Question 10

Within Bowen's theory, is a term used to refer to the ability of family members to express their own individuality and to act autonomously while remaining emotionally connected to others. At the family level, this same term refers to the degree to which difference is tolerated within the family system.

A) individuation
B) differentiation
C) fusion
D) hierarchy

Question 11

According to Bowen, poorly self-differentiated individuals organize their relationships with others outside of their family by

A) by creating conflict
B) by establishing rigid and complementary patterns of interaction
C) by projecting part of their unresolved conflicts onto one or more of their children
D) all of the above

Question 12

poorly differentiated family systems the forces of are so strong as to negate family member's individuality, viewing it as disloyal and threatening to the family's stability.

A) cohesion
B) adaptability
C) domination
D) fusion

Question 13

The concept of "family ledger" is generally associated with which family theorist?

A) Bowen
B) Minuchin
C) Boszormenyi-Nagy
D) McMaster

Question 14

Refers to Bowen's concept of submerging oneself in relationships with others such that distinctions between emotional and intellectual functioning, self and others are lost.

A) enmeshment
B) centrifugal style
C) fusion
D) pseudomutuality

Question 15

The term is used to refer to the set of expectations and responsibilities family members develop toward one another based on the patterns and dynamics that have operated in their extended family system over time, and on the particular position they held in their own family of origin.

A) family loyalty
B) family legacy
C) family projection process
D) multigenerational transmission

Question 16

The transmission of unresolved emotional attachments over the generations is referred to by Bowen as

A) the multigenerational transmission process
B) the family projection process
C) family system fusion
D) family system undifferentiation

Question 17

Which of the following process models of family functioning takes the perspective that symptoms and problems result primarily from unconscious attempts by individuals to reenact, externalize, or master intrapsychic conflicts originating in their families of origin?

A) structural models
B) intergenerational models
C) developmental models
D) Stress/Coping models

Question 18

The is a diagram depicting the biological and interpersonal relationships of the generations found within the system.

A) family map
B) genogram
C) differentiation of self scale
D) family structure

Question 19

of the following characterize a well-differentiated family system EXCEPT

A) a high degree of fusion
B) a high degree of empathy
C) a respect for individuality
D) a high degree of support

Question 20

The term refers to a multigenerational "accounting system" of who, psychologically speaking, owes what to whom.

A) family ledger
B) family loyalty
C) family legacy
D) family differentiation

Question 21

The Wilson family has three children: Andrew 4), Mary 2), and Katie 6). What is the correct order for them to appear on a genogram?

A) Katie, Mary, Andrew
B) Mary, Katie, Andrew
C) Katie, Andrew, Mary
D) Andrew, Katie, Mary

Question 22

In the genogram, differences between one generation and another are symbolized by

A) an "X"
B) a square
C) a horizontal line
D) a vertical line

Question 23

In the genogram, a husband would be symbolized by

A) a triangle
B) a circle
C) a square
D) the letter "H"