Stages of the Family Lifecycle
Psychosocial Developmental Stages
Integrative Family Therapy Approaches
Adolescence or Mental Health?
100

Accepting emotional and financial responsibility is a key principle of ________ family life cycle stage.

leaving home; single young adults

100

Who is the lead pioneer of psychosocial stages of development?

Erikson

100

An intervention for adolescent substance use and behavioral problems.

Brief Strategic Family Therapy

100

This biological process often mimics symptoms of mental health conditions during adolescence.

Puberty

200

Families with young children partake in this key principle during their emotional process of transition.

Accepting new members into the system

200

In what stage does the psychosocial crisis intimacy vs. isolation take place?

Young Adulthood

200

What is the acronym for Pattersons parent management training

PTMO

200

True or False: All mood swings in adolescents are signs of a diagnosable disorder.

False

300

Launching children and moving on requires...

a. renegotiation of marital system as a dyad

b. development of adult to adult relationships

c. realignment of relationships to include in-laws and grand children

d. dealing with disabilities and death of parents

e. all of the above

f. none of the above

300

Generativity vs. stagnation takes place in this psychosocial stage

Middle Age

300

1) pragmatic (using whatever means necessary to encourage change), 

(2) problem-focused (targeting only interactions associated with the identified problem), and 

(3) planful


Are tenants of what family therapy intervention

Brief Strategic Family Therapy

300

This term describes a period of major psychological and social development between childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence

400

a. Differentiation of self in relation to family origin

b. development of intimate peer relationships

c. establishing self in respect to work and financial independence

are all second order changes of which family life cycle stage?

Leaving home; single young adults

400

_______ is the psychosocial strength of the "old age" stage.

Wisdom

400

Structural Family Therapy considers these three components.

  • The wholeness of the family system
  • The influence of the family hierarchical organization
  • The interdependent functioning of its subsystems
400

Name one common behavioral concern that may appear during adolescence and could be either developmental or clinical.

depression, conduct disorder, or substance use

500

The joining of families through marriage goes through what two second order changes?

a. formulation of marital system

b. realignment of relationships with extended families and friends 

500

______ is the environmental influence of people over the age of 65.

All humans

500

_______ and ________ are two integrative family therapy approaches for adolescents.

Multisystemic Model 

Multidimensional Family Therapy

500

This is the key question therapists must ask when evaluating adolescent behavior: Is it ___ or is it pathology?

Development