Ch. 2 The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

considered to be those persons who are biologically and or psychologically related.

Question 2

System

Answer 2

defined as interacting set of units, parts, or persons that make up a whole arrangement or organization. Each unit, part or person in the system is affected by whatever happens to others in the arrangement.

Question 3

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Answer 3

biologist in the 1940s who attempted to explain how organisms thrive or die in accordance with their openness or closeness to their environments.

Question 4

Set of princepals that all living systems operate on

Answer 4

1. The whole is great than the sum of its parts.
2. A system is a compilation of subsystems arranged in a hierarchical structure.
3. Systems adapt self-stabilizing mechanisms to maintain homeostasis and equilibrium.
4. Systems have the capacity to adapt and change in response to environmental conditions.

Question 5

cybernetics

Answer 5

coined by Norbert Weiner (1948) to describe systems that regulate themselves through means of feedback loops.

Question 6

Homeostasis

Answer 6

the family stabilizes or changes and maintains its system. such as a furnace, or an organ system, such as a family.