1. The lack of involvement among family members that results from rigid boundaries is disengagement.
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False
2. Spouses in troubled marital relationships will not look to their children for support.
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False
3. Systems built on faulty structures are less adaptable in response to the ordinary and extraordinary demands of family life.
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False
4. The presence of a cross-generational coalition is viewed as particularly productive to the functioning family.
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False
5. A family formed within a larger system that shares common functions or other features such as gender, generation or interest is a subsystem.
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False
6. The concept of differentiation is central to Bowen's intergenerational theory.
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False
7. Poorly differentiated systems are characterized by a low tolerance for collectivism.
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False
8. Emotional cutoff occurs when family members are unwilling to risk closeness with others and there is limited self-differentiation.
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False
9. Transference is the transmission of unresolved emotional attachments over the generations.
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False
10. A genogram can be a useful tool in gaining insight into intergenerational patterns of differentiation.
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False
11. A coalition refers to one member of the family siding with a second member against a third.
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False
12. Clear boundaries between the marital and parental subsystems allow parents to attend to their own adult needs for intimacy while still fulfilling their parental responsibilities to meet the needs of the children.
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False
13. Parentification can undermine the ability of the family to address the needs of the children responsibly and, therefore, decreases the likelihood that the family will become dysfunctional.
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False
14. The family's unique composition also affects its structural organization.
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False
15. Sociologists typically use the term race to refer to a group that shares a common identity based upon non-biological traits such as shared ancestry, culture, history, language or beliefs.
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False
16. The culture specific perspective places emphasis on examining the specific cultural attitudes, beliefs, feelings and behaviors that characterize members of a particular ethnic or racial group.
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False
17. Family strategies are not affected by social class and socioeconomic status
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False
18. Minimum Basic Need is defined as the least amount of income needed for a family to purchase basic goods such as food, shelter and clothing throughout the year.
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False
19. It is difficult to generalize about ethnic and racial families because it is impossible to determine the degree to which acculturation has affected the family.
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False
20. Culture and race are the only factors that influence family strategies as they execute the tasks of family life.
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False
21. A genogram should never be created for a family as it is considered to be an invasion of privacy.
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False
22. Within well-differentiated systems, there exists a high tolerance for difference.
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False
23. Conflict is a strategy used by poorly self-differentiated individuals to maintain distance from others.
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False
24. According to Bowen, differentiation of self refers to the extent to which one has successfully resolved emotional attachments to one's family of origin.
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False
25. The effectiveness of a family's organizational structure is determined by the interplay of the family's subsystems, hierarchies, and boundaries.
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False