Marriage and Family Therapy
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Marriage and Family Therapy is an in-depth course that explores the theoretical foundations, principles, and practices involved in working with couples and families in a therapeutic setting. Students will examine various models of family therapy, such as structural, strategic, and systemic approaches, while gaining an understanding of family dynamics, communication patterns, and the impact of cultural and societal influences on relationships. The course emphasizes the development of practical skills for assessment, intervention, and ethical decision-making, preparing students to effectively navigate complex relational issues and promote healthy, functional family systems.
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The Family Dynamic A Canadian Perspective 6th Edition by Margaret Ward
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Chapter 1: What Is a Family
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Q1) Pietro lives with his mother,father,and two sisters.On Sundays they go to visit his grandparents,and often some of his aunts,uncles,and cousins are there as well.Which term best describes these people for Pietro?
A)extended family
B)census family
C)family of procreation
D)family of orientation
Answer: A
Q2) A research method in which the researcher watches and records behaviour is called
Answer: direct observation
Q3) What is a criticism of the structural functionalist theory?
A)it does not provide good explanations of why society maintains values
B)it does not explain why families and society change
C)it does not focus on stability in the family
D)it does not consider how the family is connected to social institutions
Answer: B
Q4) A(n)____________ refers to people who occupy the same dwelling. Answer: household
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Chapter 2: History, Culture, and Canadian Families
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Q1) No one knows how many multiracial children are in Canada.What is the reason for this?
A)Parents sometimes refuse to call their children multiracial.
B)Multiracial children are not counted as a specific category.
C)The definition of multiracial is not clear.
D)Some multiracial children prefer to be recognized as just one race.
Answer: B
Q2) In the Iroquoian confederacy,conflicts were settled by which of the following?
A)potlatch
B)buffalo exchange
C)consensus
D)territorial boundaries
Answer: C
Q3) Who were the first people to inhabit the territory we now call Canada?
A)English
B)Aboriginals
C)French
D)Vikings
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Getting Together
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Q1) ____________________ is the custom where single men and women go out alone together without any particular intention of marrying each other.
Answer: Dating
Q2) According to the text,in which way is dating violence different from marital violence?
A)Males are more likely to be the perpetrators in marital violence.
B)Marital rape is reported more often than date rape.
C)Date rape is reported more often than marital rape.
D)Males are more likely to be the perpetrators in dating violence.
Answer: C
Q3) Which mate selection theory is best described by the expression "opposites attract"?
A)romantic love hypothesis
B)compatibility theory
C)complementary needs hypothesis
D)social exchange theory
Answer: C
Q4) The tendency to marry someone similar to oneself is called ____________________.
Answer: homogamy
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Chapter 4: Wedding Bells or Not
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Q1) What did a study on how same-sex couples divide housework find?
A)They assign tasks based on the traditional husband and wife roles.
B)They were likely to have a more equitable division of household tasks.
C)Partners became more specialized in certain tasks.
D)Partners shared all tasks equally.
Q2) What does effective communication involve?
A)planning your response while your partner is speaking
B)making sure you show anger each time you argue
C)ensuring important issues are raised even if your partner is exhausted
D)considering how your words will affect your partner's feelings
Q3) Earlier studies of cohabitation suggested that living together before marriage affects the quality of the marital relationship for the worse.According to the text,what is one reason for questioning this conclusion?
A)These studies lumped together homosexual and heterosexual cohabitors.
B)Cohabiting couples develop problem-solving skills prior to marriage.
C)These studies looked only at young couples early in their relationships.
D)Couples who separated before marriage weren't included in studies.
Q4) A(n)__________ individual is high in characteristics of both masculinity and femininity.
Q5) Identify the different types of marriage.
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Chapter 5: Children-yes or No
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Q1) Give four reasons some couples choose to remain childless.
Q2) Which group is most likely to have an abortion?
A)women in their early teens
B)women in their late teens and 20s
C)women in their late 20s
D)women in their mid-30s
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding the process of making designer babies?
A)it depends on the quality of donor egg and sperm
B)it relies on frequent use of ultrasound
C)it is highly predictable
D)it does not produce guaranteed results
Q4) A form of adoption where the adoptive parents and the birth parents know each other and exchange information is called ____________________ adoption.
Q5) In which procedure is some of the fluid surrounding the fetus drawn off and examined under a microscope?
A)amniocentesis
B)germ-line therapy
C)marker event
D)in utero examination
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Chapter 6: Bringing up Baby
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Q1) In Canada,how is childcare regulated?
A)by the federal government
B)by provincial and territorial governments
C)by the childcare centres themselves
D)childcare is not regulated in Canada
Q2) According to the text,what might adoptive and other non-biological parents have difficulties with because they are not perceived as genuine parents by many in society?
A)loving the adopted child
B)disciplining the child
C)providing adequate physical care
D)genealogical bewilderment
Q3) What does affection between brothers and sisters usually depend on?
A)access to each other
B)plotting against parents
C)payoffs for not tattling
D)the difference in their ages
Q4) Identify and describe the various age cohorts described in the chapter.
Q5) Describe how parents influence gender socialization.
Q6) What is the impact of large family size on children's development?
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Chapter 7: The Middle Years of the Family and the Not So Empty Nest
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Q1) Which of the following has been seen as the most important form of generativity?
A)having children
B)producing works of art
C)career and public life
D)financial success
Q2) James Marcia suggests that identity develops on which of the following two dimensions?
A)expansion and moratorium
B)trust and mistrust
C)exploration and commitment
D)foreclosure and role confusion
Q3) Which of the following is unlikely to be a reason for greater interest in sex at midlife?
A)After menopause,there is no need to fear pregnancy.
B)Now that children are gone,there are fewer interruptions.
C)Sex has become a habit that is hard to give up.
D)Men's slowed response time allows a more relaxed approach.
Q4) Describe the current midlife generation.
Q5) Compare men's and women's transitions at midlife.
Q6) Name three problems that may result from the revolving door.
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Chapter 8: Grey Power and the Sunset Years
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Q1) What happens when grandparents are involved with grandchildren?
A)The grandchildren have fewer emotional problems.
B)The grandchildren are less likely to report conflict at school.
C)The grandchildren have higher self-esteem.
D)The grandchildren report less prosocial behaviour.
Q2) Every Canadian over 65 years old may receive _______________________.
Q3) ___________________ refers to the number of years a person has lived.
Q4) Researchers now suggest that Erikson's final stage can be divided into two phases.What happens in the first of the final phases?
A)Individuals have a renewed interest in preserving their health.
B)There is a desire to give back to society.
C)Individuals strive to celebrate their lives.
D)Relationships with family become more important
Q5) What is the main purpose of the CPP/QPP?
A)to provide all Canadians with a pension after they turn 65 years old
B)to provide workers with a pension that would allow them to retire in style
C)to keep older people from living in extreme poverty
D)to provide workers and their families with a modest pension upon retirement
Q6) Briefly describe the three pillars of the Canadian retirement income system.
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Q7) In 2011,the province of ______________ had the lowest proportion of seniors.
Chapter 9: The Lone-Parent Familythe Future Majority
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Q1) Which of the following best describes people with poor support systems?
A)They tend also to lack financial resources.
B)They are less likely to become clients of social service agencies.
C)They have too many interfering relatives.
D)They may not have the resources to cope with long-term stress.
Q2) The level of income below which an individual family is considered to be poor is called the ____________________.
Q3) Which term does Statistics Canada use to refer to a family in which all children in the household are the biological and/or adopted children of both members of the couple?
A)normal
B)standard
C)intact
D)unbroken
Q4) In 1961,how did the majority of lone-parent families begin?
A)with unwed mothers
B)following the death of a spouse
C)following divorce
D)with single fathers
Q5) Discuss factors affecting the economic well-being of lone parents.Give examples.
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Chapter 10: Coming Apartthe Divorce Experience
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Q1) Identify the fundamental issues that can lead to divorce.
Q2) During the 1960s,the churches were strongly involved in the debate over changing the divorce law.Which of the following statements is true regarding this debate?
A)The Roman Catholic Church supported a bill to make divorces more difficult to obtain.
B)The United Church and the Baptist Church stated that grounds for divorce should not be widened.
C)The Anglican Church argued that cruelty,but not marriage breakdown,should become grounds for divorce.
D)The Catholic Women's League stated that Roman Catholics should not make other Canadians live by their beliefs.
Q3) A lack of balance in the family system is called ____________________.
Q4) What options are available to a custodial parent when the other parent abducts a child and leaves Canada?
Q5) What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the child custody arrangements? Under what conditions is each arrangement most likely to succeed?
Q6) Lower socioeconomic status is linked with ________________ divorce rates.
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Chapter 11: The Second Time Around
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Q1) Which of the following is a stage in establishing a second marriage?
A)deciding if it is true love
B)prolonged courtship
C)overcoming the previous relationship
D)forming the remarriage family
Q2) Why might remarriage families have boundary problems?
A)Children may belong to two families.
B)Such families keep their boundaries permeable.
C)Remarriage families try to establish their own stable lifestyle.
D)Children reject the nonresidential parent.
Q3) A child who accepts an unusually high degree of the parent's responsibilities of care and nurturing is called a(n)____________________ child.
Q4) Briefly explain the three stages of remarriage-family formation.
Q5) Before people can enter a new marriage emotionally,what do they need to do?
A)focus their anger on their ex-spouse
B)mimic a first-marriage family
C)draw tight boundaries around the new relationship
D)achieve an emotional divorce from their earlier union
Q6) Describe James Bray's three stepfamily types.
Q7) State why the relationship between stepparent and stepchild is important.
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Chapter 12: The Family and the World of Work
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Q1) Which of the following resulted in less strain in juggling work and family roles,according to some studies of workers?
A)the workplace ran by predictable rules
B)the workplace was family-friendly
C)the workplace was managed by a woman
D)the workplace was close to home
Q2) What is the term for a job with long workdays and three or four days off in succession?
A)flexible workplace
B)burnout fodder
C)compressed workweek
D)flextime
Q3) The most time-crunched families are _________________,especially those with young children.
Q4) According to the text,which of the following often happens when individuals are under extreme stress?
A)family relationships may become more harmonious by contrast
B)disagreements may escalate into serious marital conflict
C)their partners also become very stressed
D)their young children will probably provide long-term emotional support
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Chapter 13: The Family Beleagueredwhen Problems Come
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Q1) Which of the following best describes attitudes toward alcohol and other substance abuse?
A)The problem is defined by gatekeepers rather than by society.
B)The drug of choice is the same across cultures.
C)Alcohol and other substance abuse is not considered discreditable by society.
D)The acceptance varies among cultures.
Q2) Explain what is meant by "normative changes" and state how these changes can be especially stressful for families with a chronically ill or disabled member.
Q3) Which of the following tends to be true of groups with vested interests?
A)they have the greatest influence in defining problems
B)they are relatively unsuccessful compared with others
C)they are a continuing financial burden on society
D)they are the same as gatekeepers
Q4) A(n)____________________ is a person whose behaviour allows another to act in a certain way;often used in reference to nonalcoholic members of alcoholic families.
Q5) A decreased ability of a family to solve its problems is referred to as a(n)_______________ adaptation.
Q6) What is the difference between functional and dysfunctional adaptation?
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Chapter 14: Home Dangerous Homeviolence in the Family
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Q1) In child abuse cases,child welfare authorities experience contradictory pressures.What do these pressures include?
A)the demand that they prosecute offenders and the belief that they provide counselling
B)the expectation that they teach proper parenting and the demand that they counsel victims
C)the expectation they will prevent abuse and the criticism that they snatch children
D)the demand that they remove children from their homes and the criticism that they provide treatment
Q2) Which of the following best describes women who kill their husbands?
A)They do so after prolonged periods of violence against the husband.
B)They are more likely to kill their children along with their spouse.
C)They are more likely to hunt down and kill partners who left them.
D)They often do so following years of being physically and sexually abused.
Q3) What happened in Canada in 2011 in terms of intimate partner violence?
A)more husbands were killed by wives than vice versa
B)the rates for men and women were nearly equal
C)slightly more women than men were killed by a spouse
D)four times as many women as men were victims of intimate partner violence
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Chapter 15: Poverty and the Family
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Q1) The main cause of poverty in Canada is _______________.
Q2) One common definition for poverty is the Statistics Canada ____________________.
Q3) ____________ are the largest single group of poor people in Canada.
Q4) A method of screening applicants to ensure that only those who need financial assistance receive it is the _________________.
Q5) Which of the following is least likely to be given as a reason for the increase in homelessness?
A)changes in eligibility for welfare
B)drug and alcohol abuse
C)sharp increases in costs of food and other essentials
D)shortages in affordable housing
Q6) Which of the following best describes those who move out of poverty?
A)They are likely to go from a two-adult household to a one-adult household.
B)They are likely to be women who have upgraded their skills.
C)They are likely to go from a one-adult to a two-adult,two-earner household.
D)They are likely to be women who are in a workfare program.
Q7) The ___________________ is the cost of a basket of goods that includes food,shelter,clothing,and other basic needs.
Q8) What are the nine priorities of Canada's Action Plan for Food Security?
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Chapter 16: The Crystal Ball-predicting the Future of the Family
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Q1) What will the effect of communications technology depend primarily on?
A)how people make use of it
B)how well parents supervise their children
C)income levels to permit purchase of equipment
D)amount of time spent surfing the Internet
Q2) ___________________ refers to counting descent through one's mother.
Q3) Briefly explain why it is difficult to predict the future of the family.
Q4) What is a dependency ratio?
A)a way of comparing dependants to providers in the workforce
B)the ratio of children to adults in a Canadian household
C)a ratio of debt to income
D)the ratio between private pensions and government-funded pensions
Q5) What has happened as a result of changes in marriage and child-bearing patterns in recent years?
A)More children live in two-parent families than before.
B)Married couples are younger when they have children.
C)There is a decrease in the use of contraceptives and an increase in abortions.
D)More children live in stepfamilies than before.
Q6) Explain what is meant by the terms "matrilineal" and "patrilineal."
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