Structure and Responsibility of Family Members

1. According to Harvey Wallace, how do parents who neglect their children differ from those who take good care of their children?
   (a) detailed knowledge
   (b) good judgment
   (c) inability to plan
   (d) vigorous motivation

2. This is more obvious than neglect because the injury is visible.
   (a) fetal alcohol syndrome
   (b) abandonment
   (c) physical child abuse
   (d) divorce

3. The ______ creates order and cooperation within the family unit and allows children to grow up trusting their parents and to later enter into intimate relationships with a member of a different family.
   (a) incest taboo
   (b) social taboo
   (c) sex taboo
   (d) consanguine taboo

4. What does good parenting require?
   (a) providing a positive role model
   (b) encouraging productive behavior
   (c) engaging in adequate supervision
   (d) all of the above

5. Which is a family structure?
   (a) two-earner
   (b) blended
   (c) couples without children
   (d) all of the above

6. The type of family that we consider to be traditional is really a modern adaptation to the ______ age.
   (a) industrial
   (b) medieval
   (c) postmodern
   (d) feudal

7. The family is significant to the study of delinquency because it is ______.
   (a) a buffer against antisocial influences on behavior
   (b) a source of antisocial behavior
   (c) both a and b
   (d) neither a nor b

8. In a family, young people can be ______.
   (a) protected
   (b) victimized
   (c) both a and b
   (d) neither a nor b

9. Which can negatively affect children?
   (a) racism
   (b) language barriers
   (c) poverty
   (d) all of the above

10. ______ describes an infant or child who has a measurable lag in height, head size, and/or development due to environmental factors and not an illness or disorder.
    (a) Emotional neglect
    (b) Physical child abuse
    (c) Non-organic failure-to-thrive
    (d) Presentism

11. ______ is believing that people of an earlier time should be accountable to the standards of present time.
    (a) Presentism
    (b) Modernism
    (c) Post-modernism
    (d) Sociological imagination

12. Who are the most physically abused children?
    (a) older children
    (b) infants
    (c) teenagers
    (d) toddlers

13. Which is a common form of child neglect?
    (a) failure-to-thrive syndrome
    (b) emotional neglect
    (c) unsafe home environment
    (d) all of the above

14. ______ are the most frequent physical abusers of children.
    (a) Babysitters
    (b) Non-parental relatives
    (c) Parents
    (d) Teachers

15. A family's environment can change over time depending on its ______.
    (a) structure
    (b) size
    (c) economic conditions
    (d) all of the above

16. The helping relationship in the delivery of welfare services to families requires all of the following EXCEPT:
    (a) Execution of fiduciary responsibilities
    (b) The establishment of a working relationship; rapport
    (c) Selection of a theory "task (structure-functional), empowerment and/or post modern principles to guide the relationship
    (d) The formation of a therapeutic alliance; relationship intensity

17. As a societal institution, the family is responsible for meeting the instrumental and expressive needs of its members. This consists of all of the following EXCEPT:
    (a) Procreation
    (b) Protection
    (c) Socialization
    (d) All of the above

18. Family welfare practice is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
    (a) It is consistent with assumptions that define family therapy
    (b) It is consistent with social conservatism and social control
    (c) It is consistent with the worker’s fiduciary obligation to meet the needs of the family for basic goods; food shelter,
    (d) It is consistent with the fiduciary obligation to ensure the safety of family members from abuse or neglect

19. All of the following are TRUE about Bowen’s approach to family therapy EXCEPT:
    (a) The therapeutic focus is on the transmission of emotional patterns of relating from one generation to the next.
    (b) All members of the family are seen in the therapeutic session
    (c) It holds that relationship patterns in one’s family of origin are predictive of relationship patterns in one’s family of formation
    (d) Differentiation is a key concept in this model

20. Which of the following is characteristic of families?
    (a) Implicit and explicit norms govern family interactions
    (b) Emotional transmission occurs from one generation to another
    (c) Vertical and horizontal stressors affect the family over its life cycle
    (d) Use of directives

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