Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Engels (1884/1972) defined the family as a social institution that is changing and certainly not eternal or fixed in time.
2. Members of ethnocultural groups from more agricultural and lower­SES countries are more likely to conceive of the family as nuclear than as extended.
3. With industrialization, nearly all of the tasks and functions once provided by the family are now offered by other social institutions.
4. People in all cultures hold exclusive, unique, and distinctive values, customs, traditions, languages, beliefs, and consequent behaviors.
5. Counselors’ responsibility as clinicians entails learning more about their own cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as those of their clients.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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