Family Systems Flashcards
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A family genogram is used in CAASP practice primarily to:
Answer: Visually map multigenerational family patterns and relationships
A genogram is a pictorial representation of family relationships across generations, helping clinicians identify recurring patterns, coalitions, and cutoffs.
Salvador Minuchin's structural family therapy focuses on which primary target for intervention?
Answer: Family subsystem boundaries and hierarchies
Structural family therapy targets the organization of the family — its subsystems, boundaries, and hierarchical structure — as the primary vehicle for change.
A wraparound plan for a youth with serious emotional disturbance should be driven by which principle above all others?
Answer: Family and youth voice, choice, and ownership
The wraparound fidelity principle of 'voice and choice' mandates that the family and youth direct the planning process, not the professionals.
Which of the following best describes 'homeostasis' within a family systems framework?
Answer: The family's resistance to change in order to maintain a familiar balance
Homeostasis is the family system's tendency to resist change and return to its established equilibrium, even when that equilibrium is dysfunctional.
In the CAASP system-of-care framework, 'individualized services' means:
Answer: Services are tailored to the unique strengths, needs, and culture of each child and family
Individualization is a core system-of-care principle requiring that services be specifically designed around each child's and family's unique profile rather than fitting families into preset programs.
A practitioner uses reframing to describe a teenager's defiant behavior as 'protecting the family from having to face bigger problems.' This technique is drawn from which therapeutic approach?
Answer: Strategic family therapy
Strategic family therapy, particularly Haley and Madanes's work, uses reframing to change the meaning attributed to behavior, shifting how the family responds to it.
Which family systems concept explains why two children raised by the same parents in the same household can develop very different personalities and attachment styles?
Answer: Sibling position and birth order effects
Birth order and sibling position, a key concept from Bowen and Toman, explain how different family roles and parental expectations shaped by ordinal position lead to different developmental outcomes.