Matching Pairs Family TherapyOnline version Please complete for mastery... by Sherwood Randolph 1 Epistemology 2 Task-specific power 3 Disengagement 4 Family Life Cycle 5 Homeostasis 6 Enmeshment 7 Entropy 8 Perceived Role 9 Developmental Tasks 10 Genogram 11 Double Bind 12 Feedback Loops 13 Covert Power 14 Prescribed Role 15 System 16 Subsystems 17 Paradigm 18 Enacted Role 19 Gender Sensitive Family Therapy 20 Executive Power 21 Feminist Family Therapy 22 Nuclear Family Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at various stages of the life cycle, enabling movement to the next developmental stage The view that an individual who receives important contradictory injunctions at different levels of abstraction- about which he or she is unable to comment or escape- is in a no win, conflict-producing situation The series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a family’s life, offering an organizing schema for viewing the family as a system proceeding through time Engagement in the behavior relative to a specific status or position A set of assumptions delimiting an area to be investigated scientifically and specifying the methods to be used to collect and interpret the forthcoming data A therapeutic perspective, regardless of theoretical persuasion, that examines the impact of gender socialization on the outlooks, attitudes, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships of men and women A family composed of a husband, wife and their offspring, living together as a family unit An organized, coexisting component within an overall system having its own autonomous functions as well as a specified role in the operation of the larger system; within families, a member can belong to a number of such units A set of interacting units or component parts that together make up a whole arrangement or organization Diffused boundaries Evident when member of the family make decisions about which other members conform or follow Inappropriately rigid boundaries Expectation of self, relative to one’s social position A form of collaborative, egalitarian, nonsexist intervention, applicable to both men and women, addressing family gender roles, patriarchal attitudes, and social and economic inequalities in male-female relationships Cycles of interactions, that are used to exert influence over families and family members The concentration of formal decision-making authority into the position of a broadly recognized leader or set of leaders The tendency of a system to go into disorder, and, if unimpeded, to reach a disorganized and undifferentiated state A dynamic state of balance or equilibrium in a system or a tendency toward achieving and maintaining such a state in an effort to ensure a stable environment A schematic diagram of a family’s relationship system in the form of a genetic tree and usually including at least three generations The study of the origin, nature, and methods, as well as the limits, of knowledge; thus, a framework for describing and conceptualizing what is being observed and experienced Held by family members who, for example, enter into coalitions to challenge or circumvent executive or task-specific power Influenced by the expectations that others hold with regard to a social position