A family comes to a counselor with the following problem. Both parents come home from work tired. Dinner is rushed because homework time for the 3rd grade twins takes hours.
Bath and bedtime have become daily battles. The parents threaten the children, but the children typically get their parents to give in. This is best described as an example of
a. coercive family patterns.
b. familial aggressive patterns.
c. instrumental reinforcement patterns.
d. negative punishment cycles.
Question 2
For counselors who work with families that include children of different ages, which of the following statements is true?
a. Parents should consistently enforce a limited number of rules regardless of the age of the child.
b. Parents need to treat all children in the family the same way (e.g., granting privileges, etc.) or they risk sending the message that they favor one child over another.
c. Parents need to be flexible as children get older and adjust their rules and expectations to developmentally changing competencies and needs.
d. Parents can relax their control of older children because these children have passed the critical period of the preschool years when learning rules is most important.
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