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What are the four main types of family tasks? - correct answer ✔✔managing emotional climate, identity
tasks, boundary tasks, and maintenance tasks
Define managing emotional climate. - correct answer ✔✔strategies for nurturing and supporting
individuals within the family
Define identity tasks. - correct answer ✔✔provides info about who we are and how we should act
What are the two types of boundaries? - correct answer ✔✔Internal and external
What are external boundaries? - correct answer ✔✔A family's established strategies and rules for
interacting with outsiders
What's the difference between an open or closed boundary? - correct answer ✔✔In an open system
people are free to come and go, in a closed system there is a focus on privacy
What are internal boundaries? - correct answer ✔✔how systems between individuals and subsystems
are regulated within the family
Define maintenance tasks. - correct answer ✔✔the idea that families establish priorities for how they
want to maintain the family
What is a family theme? - correct answer ✔✔elements of family experiences that organize family
principles (attitudes, beliefs, values)
Why are family themes important? - correct answer ✔✔behaviors align with themes, relates to how a
family is perceived by outsiders, creates an emotional climate, contributes to changing
identities/skills/emotional well-being
, How do images help family members define themselves? - correct answer ✔✔based on a mix of our
perceptions of how others see us and how we see ourselves within the family
What strategies might a family use to manage their emotional climate? - correct answer ✔✔building
family cohesion, managing conflict and tension, positive strategies, negative strategies
What is a positive strategy in regards to managing emotional climate? - correct answer ✔✔keeping the
family healthy and supporting well-being
What is an absence of strategies in regards to managing emotional climate? - correct answer ✔✔health
complaints and symptoms (a negative outcome rather than a negative strategy)
What is family cohesion? - correct answer ✔✔strategies that help family members feel accepted,
involved, and acknowledged
What happens when a family has no cohesion? - correct answer ✔✔benefits some members but not
others, can lead to feelings of rejection or ignorance (can happen when there's a middle child)
How does power affect a family? - correct answer ✔✔there is a need for a hierarchy (parent>child) for
decision making but can create issues with family cohesion and intimacy
Conflict management strategies should... - correct answer ✔✔successfully manage or resolve conflict;
promote health and well-being of family members
What is a normative stressor? - correct answer ✔✔expected stressors that occur regularly over time
What is a non-normative stressor? - correct answer ✔✔unanticipated stressors or events
What is coping? - correct answer ✔✔enactment of strategies to minimize stress and keep the family
functioning in an efficient and effective manner
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