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Which of the following statements most accurately reflects humanistic assumptions?

A) All people naturally tend toward growth and strive for self-actualization, a process of becoming authentically human.
B) The therapist is an expert who assumes the primary responsibility for identifying pathology, problems, and goals, often assuming the role of teacher or mentor.
C) An individual's behavior and symptoms always make sense in the person's broader relational contexts.
D) What a person experiences as "real" and believes to be "true" is shaped primarily through language and relationships.

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__________ is the study of knowledge and the process of knowing.

A) Systems theory
B) Epistemology
C) Cybernetics
D) Complementarity

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According to postmodern therapists, the meaning a person gives to a particular behavior, haircut, job, sex act, or religious view is developed through:

__________ therapies are based on the premise that objective truth can never be fully known because it must always pass through subjective and intersubjective filters.

The Macy Conferences gave birth to which two theories that ultimately describe how biological, social, and mechanical systems operate?

__________ is founded on the assumption that there is an external and knowable "truth."

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding epistemology?

Which of the following descriptions best captures the postmodern spirit?

Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding positive feedback?

The elements of a communicated message include __________ (content) and __________ (relationship) .

Postmodern theory offers many possibilities for family therapy. However, which of the following could be considered a DISADVANTAGE of applying the postmodern perspective?

Which of the following depictions best describes Deteriorating Interpersonal Patterns (DIPs) ?

According to postmodernism, the construction of reality is a complex process that involves four levels, including which one of the following?

Family therapists pay careful attention to the family's epistemology. What does this mean?

New information or news experienced in a system is referred to as which of the following?

Which of the following is an accurate reflection of a symmetrical relationship?

According to the author of the textbook, philosophical foundations of family therapies are divided into four main categories, including each of the following EXCEPT:

In therapy, you are working with parents and their 11-year-old daughter. In the beginning, both parents want their daughter to take more responsibility for getting her homework and chores done; however, their daughter does not want to give up her childhood and assume personal responsibility. In the early stages of therapy, a shift occurs, and suddenly you notice the daughter pulling away from her parents and doing more things on her own, while her parents begin lamenting the days when their daughter needed them more. This is an example of:

Of the various postmodern schools, which of the following philosophies were family therapists the first to embrace?

How does postmodern philosophy heighten awareness of diversity issues?