Social Work and Family Dynamics Final
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Course Introduction
This course explores the intricate relationships and dynamics within families from a social work perspective, examining how factors such as culture, socioeconomic status, gender, and life transitions impact family structures and interactions. Students will learn to assess family strengths and challenges, understand diverse family forms, and apply theories and intervention strategies to support families in various contexts. Emphasis is placed on culturally competent practice, ethical considerations, and the use of evidence-based approaches to promote resilience, healthy functioning, and well-being in families across the lifespan.
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Marriages Families and Relationships Making Choices in a Diverse Society 11th Edition by Mary Ann
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Chapter 1: Marriage, Relationships, and Family
Commitments: Making Choices in a Changing Society
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Q1) Cohabitation has emerged as a lifestyle
A) that is stigmatized as unhealthy and immoral.
B) that is much more common than marriage. C) that continues to be illegal.
D) that can be intermediate between marriage and singlehood or an alternative to marriage.
Answer: D
Q2) Today, only __________ percent of American households fit the 1950s nuclear family ideal of a married couple with children, where only the husband is employed.
A) 7
B) 10
C) 25
D) 3
Answer: A
Q3) Family togetherness, stability, and loyalty are all __________.
Answer: (communal values)
Q4) The __________ family exhibits a multiplicity of forms, and new or altered family forms continue to emerge and develop.
Answer: (postmodern)
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Chapter 2: Exploring Relationships and Families
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Q1) A potential bias of case studies is that people who present themselves for counseling may differ in important ways from those who do not.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The family development perspective emphasizes the individual family as the unit of analysis and examines the orderly stages through which families are seen to move.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The conflict and feminist perspectives call attention to __________ within groups-including families-and within the larger society.
A) the cause of varying individual attitudes
B) agreement and consensus about values
C) unequal power
D) equilibrium
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: American Families in Social Context
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Q1) Central American, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants all have lower infant mortality rates than native-born whites.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Only__________ percent of black children are living with married parents, compared to 75 percent of white and 64 percent of Hispanic children.
A) 50
B) 35
C) 25
D) 10
Answer: B
Q3) Our current history entails adapting to war overseas and the __________ of the economy.
A) industrialization
B) post-industrialization
C) globalization
D) cybernation
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Our Gendered Identities
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Q1) In 2007, Democratic congresswoman Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, the highest position in the __________ and second after the Vice President in the line of succession.
A) Congress
B) Supreme Court
C) House of Representatives
D) Pentagon
Q2) The pivotal expectation in __________ for a woman requires her to offer emotional support.
A) occupational roles
B) femininities
C) sexism
D) instrumentalism
Q3) WWhich term is used by the text to describe societal attitudes and behaviors expected of and associated with the two sexes?
A) biological sex
B) gender role
C) sexism
D) gender identity
Q4) Give an example of male dominance in the family, religion, and politics.
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Chapter 5: Our Sexual Selves
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Q1) Therapists suggest certain requirements of the offending partner of an extramarital affair, which include all BUT which of the following?
A) apologize sincerely and without defending her or his behavior
B) ask the spouse if they have had similar thoughts or feelings of infidelity
C) allow and hear the verbally vented anger and rage of the offended partner
D) allow for trust to rebuild gradually and to realize that this may take a long time
Q2) There is no variation between racial and gender groups when it comes to sexual activities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The text lists several reasons that teens choose to be abstinent. Which is NOT one of these?
A) conservative values
B) fear of pregnancy or disease
C) not interested in sex
D) fear of parents
Q4) Compare and contrast the basic assumptions of patriarchal sexuality and expressive sexuality.
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Chapter 6: Love and Choosing a Life Partner
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Q1) What is "date rape?" Give an example of one of the rape myths. (p. 155)
Q2) Since the 1970s the proportion of marriages preceded by cohabitation has grown steadily so that, by 1995, this was true of a majority of marriages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The __________ hypothesis involves the argument that an individual might trade his or her socially defined superior racial/ethnic status for the economically or educationally superior status of a partner in a less-privileged racial/ethnic group.
Q4) Of the components of consummate love, which is the quickest to develop and the quickest to fade?
A) passion
B) commitment
C) intimacy
D) devotion
Q5) Everyone who enters the marriage market is equally available to everyone else. A)True
B)False
Q6) Propinquity refers to __________ availability.
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Chapter 7: Marriage: From Social Institution to Private Relationship
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Q1) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the last 50 years, the divorce rate
A) is higher today than in 1960
B) declined until the mid-70s, then rose C) has declined steadily since the 1950s
D) has risen significantly since the mid-70s
Q2) Today, almost__________ percent of U.S. adults are currently married-a proportion that has been slowly declining over the past several decades.
A) twenty
B) forty C) sixty
D) eighty
Q3) __________ marriage is a fairly new type of legal marriage in which the bride and groom agree to be bound by a stronger-than-ordinary contract that will not let them get divorced as easily as is presently allowed.
Q4) Why does the marriage gap exist?
Q5) What is the "marriage premise?"
Q6) Discuss several of the pros and cons of initiating a covenant marriage relationship.
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Chapter 8: Living Alone, Cohabiting, Same-Sex Unions, and
Other Intimate Relationships
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Q1) According to the text, unmarried parents to one partner's child should consider three documents. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A) a Co-parenting Agreement
B) a Nomination of Guardianship
C) a Living Trust
D) a Consent to Medical treatment
Q2) The number of one-person households has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain how cohabitation could create legal problems for couples when it comes to residence, money, property, inheritance, health care decision making, and children. Identify which legal issues are likely to be especially problematic for gay and lesbian couples.
Q4) Describe several factors that are related to happiness, satisfaction, and lack of loneliness in singlehood. Identify differences as they are reported to exist between males and females and between younger and older singles.
Q5) What is a supportive social network? Give at least one example.
Q6) What is the sex ratio? Why is this concept important in terms of marriage?
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Chapter 9: To Parent or Not to Parent
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Q1) The text offers several explanations for the drop in overall fertility levels. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A) waiting longer to have their first babies
B) childbearing having increasingly shifted to later ages
C) an increase in sexual abstinence
D) a higher incidence of childlessness
Q2) The text lists several advantages to earlier parenthood. Which is NOT among them?
A) better physical health
B) grandparents are younger, and could help with the children
C) more time to pursue a career before having children
D) less of a "generation gap" between themselves and their children
Q3) According to the text, for as long as most people can remember, the words "teenage pregnancy" have been associated with which word?
A) tragedy
B) problem
C) crisis
D) challenge
Q4) What are the emotional and psychological consequences of abortion?
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Chapter 10: Raising Children in a Diverse Society
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Q1) __________ parenting combines warm emotional support for children with a demand for significant respect for parents and other authority figures.
Q2) Children make up __________ of the homeless population.
A) one-tenth
B) one-quarter
C) one-third
D) one-half
Q3) Briefly summarize the challenges of parenthood for low-income and poverty-level parents.
Q4) More highly educated parents have fewer children on average and are likely to emphasize ____________ of their child's talents and overall development.
Q5) Given work and other demands, more than ____ percent of mothers tell pollsters that they wish they had more time with their children.
A) 20
B) 30
C) 40
D) 50
Q6) What does it mean for a mother to be the primary "psychological parent?"
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Chapter 11: Work and Family
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Q1) In 2009, almost ____________ of mothers of children under fifteen in married-couple families were stay-at-home mothers, wives of steadily employed men, who were temporarily out of the labor force for the entire year to "take care of home and family."
A) one-tenth
B) one-quarter
C) one-third
D) half
Q2) The text reports that "the housewife," a woman who views her adult role as one devoted to the home, while she remains economically dependent on the earnings of her husband, the breadwinner, has __________.
A) remained a vital presence in our society
B) re-emerged in strength
C) vanished
D) flourished in some ethnic groups
Q3) Mothers of young children were the first women to move into employment outside the home.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Social scientists have called marriages in which spouses live apart _________.
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Chapter 12: Communication in Relationships, Marriages, and Families
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Q1) The text concludes that when both partners develop constructive habits, all of their problems will be solved.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A review of research on couple communication in the 1990s strongly suggests that men and women respond almost identically to negative affect in close relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Deborah Tannen argues that men typically engage in conversation aimed mainly at conveying information, which she refers to as
A) report talk.
B) rapport talk.
C) self-disclosure.
D) ventilation.
Q4) __________ is a behavior that is provocative and that challenges the spouse's power and authority.
Q5) Describe and discuss Gottman's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. What are their implications for relationships?
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Chapter 13: Power and Violence in Families
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Q1) The text mentions several ways to stop relationship violence. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A) telephone hotlines
B) the shelter movement
C) counseling and group therapy directed toward abusive male partners (or the couple)
D) the criminal justice system
Q2) Under traditional common law, marital rape was not considered rape at all because
A) women are expected to have sex with their husbands.
B) wives were considered their husbands' property.
C) of the rules of patriarchy.
D) women could not vote.
Q3) Of the various forms of sexual abuse, which is the most emotionally charged?
A) fondling
B) incest
C) rape
D) exposure
Q4) __________ violence refers to mutual violence between partners that often occurs in conjunction with a specific argument.
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Chapter 14: Family Stress, Crisis, and Resilience
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Q1) Resilient families rely on one another for support.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Trying to counsel and help a family who was living in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 and who still struggle with the resulting trauma illustrates which theoretical perspective?
A) family ecology
B) family systems
C) family development
D) conflict
Q3) From the family systems perspective, ambiguous loss is uniquely difficult to deal with because it creates __________ in a family.
Q4) __________ "is simply pressure put on the family."
A) Family stress
B) Stressor overload
C) Boundary ambiguity
D) Family crisis
Q5) What are crisis-meeting resources? Give at least two examples.
Q6) Trace the course of a family crisis.
Q7) What are the major ingredients in meeting crises creatively?
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Chapter 15: Divorce: Before and After
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Q1) What is the relationship between divorce and income? Be brief, specific, and complete in your answer.
Q2) Judith Fisher has studied noncustodial mothers and urges certain behaviors and attitudes. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A) the negation of the unflattering stereotypes of noncustody mothers
B) sensitivity to the demands society places on mothers
C) limitations on the woman's choice, even when it appears to have been well thought out
D) prohibitions against blaming the mother when others decide that the children should live apart from her
Q3) New York was the first state to introduce no-fault divorce.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sociologist Constance Ahrons argues that there is no such thing as a "good divorce."
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is joint physical custody and how well or poorly does it work out, according to research?
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Chapter 16: Remarriages and Stepfamilies
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Q1) Are principles of homogamy generally observed in remarriages? Explain how homogamy or the lack of homogamy can affect the likelihood of redivorce.
Q2) Stepfamilies often struggle with__________, since there are no clear guidelines regarding what responsibilities, behaviors, and emotions stepfamily members are expected to exhibit.
Q3) Considerable research shows that remarrieds experience more tension and conflict than do first marrieds, usually on issues related to__________.
A) stepchildren-discipline or distribution of resources to stepchildren.
B) previous marriages, and unresolved in-law ties
C) new gender roles and sharing household tasks
D) the possibility of divorce and whether the marriage is "working"
Q4) Cultural norms clearly indicate how stepparents should play their role. A)True B)False
Q5) How are kin networks in remarried families complex and uncharted?
Q6) Our society offers members of remarried families no __________, or set of socially prescribed and understood guidelines, for relating to each other or for defining responsibilities and obligations.
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Chapter 17: Aging Families
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Q1) According to the text, elder abuse in families often, although not always, results from
A) a lack of intimacy
B) caregiver stress
C) physical limitations
D) emotional limitations
Q2) Summarize the text's discussion of adult children as eldercare providers. Will there be any changes in this role in the future? If so, what might these changes be?
Q3) Before Social Security and Medicare were initiated, the elderly were disproportionately poor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The text points out that among many immigrant ethnic groups, norms of filial obligation are affected by ___________.
A) acculturation
B) ethnocentrism
C) kin conversion
D) kin upgrading
Q5) Describe the racial/ethnic differences in older Americans' living arrangements.
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Chapter 18: Topic 1: Gender Roles
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Q1) What event led to David Reimer being raised as a girl?
A) a birth defect
B) homosexuality
C) a parental choice
D) a surgical mistake
Q2) Why did David's doctors feel it was the best decision to make?
A) it was the cheapest alternative
B) the prevailing theory was that babies were born a blank slate and taught their sex
C) it was the safest alternative
D) none of these choices
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Chapter 18: Topic 2: Love and Intimacy
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Q1) How has the effect of holding hands been proven?
A) through dating experiments
B) through MRI experiments
C) through questionnaires
D) through field research
Q2) Will holing hands research likely change the men's behavior?
A) yes
B) no
Q3) Holding your spouses hand can have what benefits?
A) such affection rewires the brain
B) it helps one to better handle anxiety
C) it boosts the immune system
D) all of these choices
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