Deck 15: Career Counseling With Couples and Families

Question 1

The poverty rate among single female heads of household was 46 percent in 2016.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

General systems theory was originally a mathematical theory developed by Norton Weissman (1948) and extended to biology and medicine by von Ber- talanffy (1968).

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A family system works to maintain homeostasis, which is rejuvenation and interpersonal status.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Using the "traditional family" idea as a guidepost needs to be abandoned because it does not describe the majority of households.

Question 5

According to the chapter, counselor misdiagnosis is the greatest challenge in counseling gay and lesbian couples.

Question 6

Circular causality is:

A) When a change in one part of a family system results in changes to all theparts of the system
B) The circular reasoning and fighting that causes undue stress
C) The circular reasoning and fighting that causes undue stress.
D) What happens when a family member chooses a career that differs fromthe family's expectation of him or her

Question 7

Gysbers, Heppner, and Johnston (1998) suggest that it is helpful to develop a vocabulary of family and work problems to clarify any potentially fuzzy issues. They suggest categorizing problems into the following except:

A) Life roles
B) Life events
C) Life space
D) Life setting

Question 8

Which one of the following is not something that dual-career families in which both parents are engaged in a managerial or professional position require?

A) High levels of effort and energy for success.
B) A high commitment to excel.
C) An educational degree
D) Advancement in responsibility and pay status

Question 9

According to the chapter, in dual-earner families, which of the following is nottrue?

A) Women work to supplement the family's income
B) Women make less than married women with no children
C) Women do more work in meal preparation and yard work
D) Women are more likely to downgrade career or work concerns to take care of the family

Question 10

In the study conducted by O'Ryan and McFarland (2010) on dual-career lesbian and gay couples, which one of the following is not a stage that couples go through to successfully negotiate career-relationship boundaries?

A) Determing whose career has priority
B) Planfulness
C) Creating positive networks
D) Shifting from marginalization to consolidation and integration

Question 11

Match the following to what is most correct:

-Explains why an individual doesn't allow work to spill over into family life

A) Spillover theory
B) Compensation theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Instrumental theory
E) Segmentation theory

Question 12

Match the following to what is most correct:

-Explains why an individual increases certain commitments to createbalance of personal needs

A) Spillover theory
B) Compensation theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Instrumental theory
E) Segmentation theory

Question 13

Match the following to what is most correct:

-Suggests that boundaries between work and family can get blurred

A) Spillover theory
B) Compensation theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Instrumental theory
E) Segmentation theory

Question 14

Match the following to what is most correct:

-Suggests that an individual may be pushed and pulled over roles

A) Spillover theory
B) Compensation theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Instrumental theory
E) Segmentation theory

Question 15

Match the following to what is most correct:

-Individuals work not only to provide their families with what they need but also to provide luxuries for them

A) Spillover theory
B) Compensation theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Instrumental theory
E) Segmentation theory

Question 16

The counseling profession has evolved from conceptualizing clients as isolated individuals to viewing clients in the context of their environment.

Question 17

Problematic behavior may be viewed as an attempt to regain homeostasis in the family.

Question 18

Feminists have criticized systems theory because it assumes that everyone in the family has equal power and can affect the system equally.

Question 19

Individuals in the United States spend, on average, approximately half of their days at work.

Question 20

Compensation theory purports that individuals compensate for what is missing in their families by decreasing their commitment to work or vice versa.

Question 21

Segmentation theory states that individuals keep family life and work life com- pletely separate.

Question 22

Instrumental theory purports that individuals work to provide their families with only what they need.

Question 23

Conflict theory describes how conflict can arise from the roles that individuals play at work and at home.

Question 24

The family life cycle illustrates the development of the traditional nuclear family by describing six stages of development and the emotional processes that the family experiences during these stages.

Question 25

Carter and McGoldrick's family life cycle is similar for most families.

Question 26

It is not important that counselors understand clients' perspectives of their cultural and familial expectations.

Question 27

Since the Recession of 2007, the unemployment rate has increased dramati- cally-from 4.4% in 2010 to 9.6% in 2017.

Question 28

Difficulties encountered by single parents have more to do with the number of parents the child has at home than socioeconomic status.

Question 29

The most common concerns of single-parent households are adequate compen- sation, job title, vacation pay, and reputation.

Question 30

Male-headed single families are prone to be more vulnerable to financial strain than their female counterparts.

Question 31

Divorce is one key reason for the rise in single-parent households.

Question 32

Some work-related issues that gay and lesbian couples must contend with are work discrimination and fear of being "outed" and/or fired.

Question 33

What occurs in counseling will depend on each partner's career stage and the couple's family stage.

Question 34

The Integrative Life Planning model is based on two career development tasks that reflect social justice and diversity.

Question 35

The National Center on Family Homelessness (2016) reported that families represent approximately 35 percent of all homeless people, and 60 percent of those families have children under 18.