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Interrelated concepts for Bowen
Definition
differentiation of self
triangles
nuclear family emotional process
family projection process
multigenerational transmission process
sibling position
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Bowenian primary goal
Definition
differentiation of self for individual family members
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Therapist role - Bowen
Definition
therapist must be sufficiently differentitated from own family so reactivity is minimal
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Bowen therapy - model type
Definition
not problem-solving or solution-focused but growth model
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Contextual Family Therapy - model
Definition
emphasis on fairness and applying accounting tenets to human psychology
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Entitlements
Definition
inherently and fairly due and what each accrues based on behavior toward each other
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Contextual family therapy goal
Definition
action leading to a balanced of self-validation and fair accountability
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Dimensions of Contextual Family Therapy
Definition
Facts
Psycholodyg (thoughts)
transactions
relational ethics
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Contextual term - loyalty
Definition
derives combination of internalized expectations and obligations to family of origin
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Contextual family therapy goal
Definition
clients to free themselves from invisible loyalties, take responsibility for behaviors toward others
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Contextual therapeutic stance
Definition
multidirectional partiality - advocate for each person
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Contextual 4 therapeutic stance components
Definition
encourage open negotiations of ledge issues
exploration of loyalty
deparentification
actions address inequities
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Contextual therapy
Definition
goal is not insight but accept imbalances
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Psychonalytic tools
Definition
listening, respond to unconscious material, interpreting, working with transference and countertransference material
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Object Relations - goal of therapy
Definition
insight
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Object Relations goal
Definition
not symptom relief
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Object Relations concepts
Definition
repressed systems within ego
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Object Relations intervention
Definition
interpretation - therapist hypothesis make unconscious material available
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Strategic therapy model concepts
Definition
focus on current family communication patterns that serve to maintain problem
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Strategic Family goal
Definition
goals that derive from the problem/symptom presented
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use of resistance by applying specific strategies
Definition
Strategic Family therapy
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MRI focus
Definition
faulty cycles of interaction
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negative feedback loops
Definition
ways that families correct a deviation in family functioning so as to return it to a previous state of homeostasis
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positive feedback loops
Definition
a rise as a family attempts to add new information into the system
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MRI assessment
Definition
determine feedback loops that govern faulty behavior patterns by observing repetitive patterns of family interactions
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1st order change
Definition
family patterns of interaction or sequences at behavioral level only
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2nd order of change
Definition
family rules or beliefs that govern family behaviors or reactions are altered
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MRI assessment
Definition
estimation of behaviors maintaining problem - certain behaviors are assumed to be maintaining problem
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MRI interventions
Definition
reframing, paradoxical interventions,
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Paradoxical interventions
Definition
symptom prescription - continue to perform problem
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MRI intervention - restraining technique
Definition
warned of dangers of change - go slowly
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Intervention - MRI - positioning
Definition
therapist amplifies family's explanation of problem to a point that the family will disagree
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MRI - termination
Definition
therapy ends when behavioral change objectives are met
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Hayley & Madanes - Strategic, concept
Definition
symptoms stem from faulty organization within the family and serve a function in maintaining its structure and homeostasis
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Hierarchical structure
Definition
critical - an individual is more disturbed in direct proportion to the number of malfunctioning hierarchies in which he is embedded
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incongruous hierarchies
Definition
created when children use symptoms to try to change their parents
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Strategic Model goal
Definition
to alter the sequences of interactions but also change the structure of family
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All members living in home present in therapy
Definition
Strategic model
Term
Strategic assessment
Definition
1st task - decide who is being protected by child's behavior
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strategic paradoxial interventions
Definition
dramatizations pretending and make believe play
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Madannes dilemma between love and violence
Definition
work closer to Satir
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dominate and control
Definition
delinquency & drugs
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to be loved
Definition
depression, eating disorders
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love & protect
Definition
suicide and neglect
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repent and forgive
Definition
incest, murder, abuse
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Dramatizations
Definition
Strategic intervention - a parent is directed to request her child intentionally perfrom problem behavior
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Pretending
Definition
Madanes directs parents to ask child to pretend to have the symptom and the parents to pretend to help the child
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Make-Believe Play
Definition
when a child protects her parents through symptomatic behavior she is helping them covertly
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Structural approach to Anorexia - goal
Definition
to provoke a runaway positive feedback loop which throws the famiy outof equilibrium and increases stress
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Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, Guilian Prata
Definition
Milan Systemic Family Therapy
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Milan theory
Definition
grew out of Bateson's work on cybernetics problems as being maintained by interactional sequences
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Milan theortectical stance
Definition
neutral stance towards therapy outcome
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Positive connnotations
Definition
avoide linear causality - assigns positive motive or value to each behavior
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rituals
Definition
enhance positive connotation or require family to either exaggerate or violate family rules
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hypothesing, circularity, neutrality
Definition
focused on processes that occurred during therapy session - interventions from Milan
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hypothesizing
Definition
assessment tool which the therapist begins exploration into family system and invites them to investigate
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ciculartiy
Definition
attributes of member to member interactions and to form of ineractions between therapist and family
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logical connotation
Definition
no need to say problem is useful, only that people have gooten used to it
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early years of Milan
Definition
assumed adversarial style - therapist v families (resistance)
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Salvador Minuchin
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
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Structural model conception
Definition
families as operating according to consistent, learned structures problems ocur when usual way of responding has become stuck for lack of alternatives
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Structual intersts
Definition
behavior sequences, rules that govern interactions and context that influences rules
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Structural therapist role
Definition
direction, attends to process than content, observes reactions
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Change for Structural
Definition
basic organization of family must change
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Goals of Structural model
Definition
correct dysfunction hierarchies by putting parents in chargeof children and differentiate between subsystems
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Structural model - theory of normal development
Definition
family structure develops through repitition and external context
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boundaries
Definition
hypothetical line of demarcation that serves to protect the autonomy of a family and its subsystems by managing proximity and hierarchy
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disengagement
Definition
rigid boundaries that are restructive and permit little contact with outside subsystems
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enmeshment
Definition
diffuse boundaries are permeable and permit easy contact with other subsystems
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disengaged systems
Definition
independent isolated - not warm
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enmeshed
Definition
affection- lack of autonomy
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Structural assessment - accommodation
Definition
adjustments a therapist may make to a family in order to achieve therapeutic alliance
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Structural assessment - joining
Definition
establish rapport and temporarily becomes part of the family
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Structural term - mimesis
Definition
matching mood with family members
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Structural assessemnt - enactment
Definition
observing specific interactions in session - Process
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Structural assessment - mapping the system
Definition
simplification device so therapist can organize material - helpf to formulate hypotheses
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Structural technique - intensity
Definition
degree of impact regulated
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Structural technique - shaping competence
Definition
changes direction of interactions - avoid telling families what they are doing wrong
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Structural technique - unbalancing
Definition
supports one family interfers with homestasis jolt structure
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Structural technique - challenging assumptions
Definition
alternative views of reality
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Greenber, Johnson, Kempler, Whitaker, Satir
Definition
Experiential Therapy
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Experiential goals
Definition
unblock honest emotional expression in families and to open individuals to their inner experience
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Experiental model - philosophy
Definition
outgrowth of phenomenological techniques of Gestalt theory, emotional experience emphasized of intellectural reasoning
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Experiential - therapist role
Definition
authentic, self-diclose, emphasize here & now
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Whitaker stressed existential themes
Definition
freedom, choice, self-responsibility, anxiety and awareness of death
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Symbolic-experiential - Whitaker - functional families
Definition
flexible, integrated whole - interactions across three or four integrated generations maintain its sense of history
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Satir stressed
Definition
nurtue and open communication
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Symobolic-experiential - assessment
Definition
unstructured - focus is on suppressed emotions and impulses that block growth and fulfillment of family members
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symbolic-experiential therapist role
Definition
therapist is model by being able to experience here-and-now - notice and identify suppressed emotional reactions and push for breath through of affect
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symbolic-experiential directives
Definition
aimed at increasing ability to experience emotions and encourage genuine interactions
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symbolic-experiential techniques - family sculpture
Definition
family members are asked to arrange others in tableaus in order to symbolically portray processes and events
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Symbolic-experiential therapist advocated co-therapist
Definition
Whitaker
Term
Whitaker - role of therapist
Definition
expert coach not teammate
Term
symbolic-experiential - early therapy characterized
Definition
battle for structure - family capitulate to the therapist's way of operating
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Whitaker - important aspect of assessment - therapist
Definition
therapist's own responses including level of anxiety physical sensations and reactions
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Satir - technique
Definition
parts party
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parts party
Definition
help client experience the different parts of personalities and enable to see operate as intergrated whole
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Satir - technique temperature reading
Definition
between sessions family express hopes and wishes - show appreciation to each other
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Satir - styles of communication
Definition
placating, avoiding, blaming, computing, leveling
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EFT -
Definition
humanistic - less behavioral model of therapy
Term
Emotions as agent of change
Definition
EFT
Term
EFT - normal devlopment
Definition
attachment theory is framework, attachment needs for contact, comfort, security and closeness
Term
EFT assessement/treatment steps
Definition
9 treatment steps
Term
EFt - step 1
Definition
assessment - create alliance
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EFT step 2
Definition
indentify problem interactional cycle
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EFT step 3
Definition
access unacknowledged emotions
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EFT step 4
Definition
reframe problems in terms of cycle changing interactional positions
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EFT Step 5
Definition
promoting identification with disowned needs
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EFT step 6
Definition
promoting acceptance of partners new construction of experience
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EFT step 7
Definition
facilitate expression of specific needs
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EFT step 8
Definition
facilitate new solutions to old problematic relationship
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EF step 9
Definition
consolidating new positions
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Kant, Maturana, Varela, Foucault, Derrida, Lynn Hoffman
Definition
Influencers to Constructivist
Term
Social constructionais family therapists focus
Definition
attention to language and meaning
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Models of Social Construction
Definition
Solution-focused, Narrative, Collaborate Language Systems, Inventive Questioning, Reflecting Team
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Steve de Shazer, Insoo Berg
Definition
Solution-focused
Term
SFT - influenced by
Definition
brief treatment model at MRI
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SFT - therapist role
Definition
work colloboratively with client to negotiate achievable goals
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SFT - theory of normal development
Definition
do not adhere to a normative model of development, difficulties of living occur when clients engage in problem focused thinking
Term
SFT - assessment -
Definition
identifies exceptions, complement strengths
Term
SFT - techniques - formula 1st session
Definition
to begin to identify strengths-clients are asked to observe lives between 1st & 2nd session to notice what they would like to continue happen
Term
SFT - miracle question
Definition
to clarify goals
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SFT - exception question
Definition
to reverse focus
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SFT - client types
Definition
visitor, complainant, customer
Term
Michael White
Definition
Narrative Therapy
Term
Narrative model - theory of normal development/dysfunction
Definition
does not adhere to specific notions about normal development, not dysfunctional but rather influenced by problem-saturated story
Term
Narrative goal
Definition
deconstruct problem-saturated story and dominant cultural discourse
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Externalize problem
Definition
separate the problem from the person
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Narrative technique - opening space
Definition
uncover unique outcomes
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narrative - sparkling events
Definition
to gather information about tiems in lives that the the family or person was able to resist effects of problem
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narrative - reconstructing and reinforcing a new narrative
Definition
reframes not really a part of narrative therapy because if reframe do not fit into persons self image desired change is unlikely
Term
narrative - therapeutic certificates
Definition
client announces victory over the problem
Term
Narrative - therapeutic letters
Definition
concrete reminder of client's personal successes - created by Epston
Term
narrative - leagues
Definition
Epston - groups of people who are working on similar problems to provide support for construction and maintenance new stories
Term
Harlene Anderson, Harry Goolishian, Lynne Hoffman, Tom Anderson, Ken Gergen, Sheila McNamee
Definition
Collaborative Language Systems
Term
Multimpa Impact Therapy Projects
Definition
Goolishian
Term
Central components to Colloborative Language Systems
Definition
language and conversation
Term
Colloborative language - assumptions
Definition
drawn from hermeneutics and social construction, assumes persons realtiy is socially constructed and maintained through dialogue which emerges as a narrative reality
Term
Collaborative language - therapist stance
Definition
"not-knowing"
Term
Collaborative - theory of normal development/dysfunction
Definition
problems and solutions are socially constructed - created through language
Term
Collaborative - assessment
Definition
downplays techniques - does not use diagnoses, give directives or make hypotheses
Term
Colloborative - goal
Definition
is dissolution of the problem system as a result of the evolution of new meaning through the narratives and stories created
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Colloborative - problems
Definition
not solved - they are dissolved
Term
Karl Tomm
Definition
Inventive Questioning
Term
Proponent of Milan Model - drawn to hypthesizing, circularity, and neutrality
Definition
Karl Tomm
Term
Inventive Questions-
Definition
questions can help families find new meaning and new ways of behaving
Term
reflexive questions
Definition
to inspire families to reflect on the meaning of their current perspectives and consider new options
Term
future oriented questions
Definition
stimulate new options
Term
observer-perspective
Definition
stimulate self-observation
Term
unexpected counterchange
Definition
alter context in which the problem behavior is viewed to open up choices not yet considered
Term
emdded suggestion
Definition
allow therapist to point to new possibilities
Term
normative comparison
Definition
normalize circumstance by comparing other people in similar cases
Term
distinction-clarifying
Definition
separate components of a problem
Term
questions introducing hypotheses
Definition
offer tentative hypotheses about meaning of problem behavior
Term
process interrupting
Definition
create sudden shift in the therapeutic session
Term
Tom andersen
Definition
Reflecting Team
Term
Reflecting Team - conceptualization
Definition
family as a stuck system
Term
Team role
Definition
does not take expert role, observes family and interviewing therapist, team converses with family and therapist
Term
George Kelly
Definition
Personal Construct Theory
Term
Personal construct theory - philosophy
Definition
follows Kant - symptomatic behavior is a means to an end
Term
Personal construct theory - role of therapist
Definition
provides connections that might help people reformulate their questions
Term
personal construct theory - reframing
Definition
used to change meaning of language or shift context
Term
personal construct theory - behavior
Definition
not target for change - target is a change in meaning
Term
Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, Joseph Wolpe, BF Skinner, Richard Stuart
Definition
Behavioral Therapy
Term
John Watson
Definition
applied classical conditioning principles to human behavior
Term
Joseph Wolpe
Definition
systemic desensitization - phobias classically conditioned
Term
BF Skinner
Definition
delineated the principles by which the frequency of a voluntary response could be increased or decreased by changing the consequence of the response
Term
Richard Stuart
Definition
developed behavioral marital therapy
Term
Behavioral model - normal development/dysfunction
Definition
do not attend to development or resistance or historical data
Term
Behavioral model - focus
Definition
on current behavior
Term
behavioral model - dysfunction
Definition
dysfunctional behaviors are learned
Term
behavioral model - functional relationship
Definition
good communication skills and problem-solving skills are most important characteristics
Term
behavioral model - goal
Definition
to diminish problem behaviors and increase positive behaviors
Term
behavioral model - interventions
Definition
based on operant conditioning principles
Term
behavioral model - treatment
Definition
time-limited and symptom focused - problem must be concrete and measurable
Term
baseline -
Definition
record of behavior's frequency and duration prior to intervetnion
Term
behavioral - therapist role
Definition
teacher, coach, reinforcer
Term
Gerald Patterson
Definition
Parent Skills Training
Term
Robert Liberman & Richard Stuart
Definition
Behavioral couples therapy
Term
Stuart - Behavioral couples - categories
Definition
teach couples to speak in behavioral terms and not complaining, teach positive behavorial exhange process, improve communication, methods to distribute power, teach problem-solving skills
Term
Communication skills training
Definition
define problems in non-blame way, listen empathetically, formulate "I" statements, generate solutions, decide on solution, implement solution
Term
James Alexander
Definition
Functional Family Therapy
Term
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Definition
integrates systems theory, behaviorism, and cognitive therapy
Term
FFT - treatment goal
Definition
provide new behavior patterns to meet individual functions - indentifying interactional patterns & cognitions
Term
Albert Ellis
Definition
Rational Emotive Family therapy
Term
Rational Emotive goal -
Definition
identify and modify irrational beliefs
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Rational Emotive - technique
Definition
thought stopping
Term
Psychoeducation programs
Definition
mental illness, medical illness, family enrichment
Term
Donald Bloch
Definition
Started journal - Family Systems Medicine (Families, Systems, and Health)
Term
Rolland
Definition
created framework for determining the interaction between qualities of an illness and characteristics of a family
Term
components to consider for medical illness family therapy - illness varies
Definition
onset (sudden or gradual), course (stable, progressive or unpredictable, degree of incapacitalion, outcome
Term
Family enrichment - role of therapist
Definition
educator
Term
Bernard Guerney
Definition
Relationship Enhancement (RE)
Term
Relationship Enhancement - therapist and goals
Definition
therapist works to create context in which positive changes can occur - the emphasis is on empathy
Term
Relationship Enhancement - areas couples receive training
Definition
express mode, epathetic mode, mode switching, facilitative mode, problem solving and conflict resolution & maintenance
Term
Floyd, Markman, Kelly, Blumber, Stanley
Definition
Preventive Intervention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREPARE)
Term
PREPARE - skills set
Definition
participants learn communication and conflict resolution skills and discuss expectations for marriage
Term
PREPARE - format
Definition
group of 4 to 10 couples or marathon session for 20 to 60 couples over one weekend
Term
Father Gabriel Calvo
Definition
Marriage Encounter
Term
Emily Visher & John Visher
Definition
Step Family Prep Programs
Term
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Definition
applies systems concepts and technique to intrapsychic processes
Term
IFS - role of therapist
Definition
therapists and clients collaborate and co-create changes in life storie but retains features of structural, strategic
Term
Richard Schwartz
Definition
Internal Family Systems
Term
Richard Schwartz - belief
Definition
each person has a core self
Term
IFS goal
Definition
individual - help client differentiate core self and heal such parts
family - elicit selves of each member and bring together to deal with the extreme parts of each that are involved on problem
Term
IFS - therapist goals
Definition
reestablish self-leader and help family notice when parts take over - help each other develop vision of how members wants to relates, discuss impediments to development with vision, work collaborately
Term
IFS - attention to resistance
Definition
exiles, managers, firefighters
Term
Exiles (IFS)
Definition
contain pain from last hurtful time
Term
Managers (IFS)
Definition
try to keep the exiles and feelings contained out of consciousness
Term
Firefighters (IFS)
Definition
are used when managers fail - diffuse painful emotions with food, drugs etc
Term
Douglas Breunlin, Richard Schwartz, Betty MacKune Karrier
Definition
Metaframeworks Model
Term
Metaframeworks Model - core domains
Definition
6 domains of human experience - organization, sequences, development, culture, gender, internal processes
Term
Metaframeworks MOdel goal
Definition
to release constraints
Term
William Pinsof
Definition
Integrative - Problem-Centered Therapy (IPCT)
Term
IPCT - focus
Definition
use simplest intervention - first focusing on here and now
Term
Joseph Eron, Thomas Lund
Definition
Narrative Solutions Approach
Term
Narrative Solutions Approach
Definition
idea originated MRI - people's problems develop as family gets stuck after having tried solutions - problems arrive when people are not living their preferred view
Term
Neil Jacobson, Andrew Christensen
Definition
Integrative Couple Therapy
Term
Integrative Couple Therapy - approach
Definition
strategic, experiential, and ego analytic techniques to behavioral couples work
Term
Integrative couple therapy - process
Definition
treatment begins with formulation, consisting of theme that defines conflict, polarization process describing dysfunctional pattern of interaction
Term
Ross Speck, Carolyn Attneave, Uri Ruevini
Definition
Network
Term
Network - clientele
Definition
for families in crisis
Term
Network - goal
Definition
disrupt dysfunctional patterns and to use therapeutic and social network in a systemic way
Term
Phases of Network
Definition
retribalization, polarization, mobilization (tasks identified) depression, break-through, exhaustion-elation
Term
Id
Definition
oldes and original function of the personality and basis for other two - Pleasure principal - impulsive
Term
ego
Definition
mediates id and environment - executive - reality priniciple
Term
superego
Definition
conscience and ego-ideal - strives for perfection
Term
Erick Erickson - Psychosocial Stages
Definition
each stage presents a development task in crisis where potential for progress or regression, integration and retardation
Term
oral-sensory
Definition
basic trust - mistrust
Term
muscular-anal
Definition
autonomy versus shame/doubt
Term
locomotor-genital
Definition
initiative versus guilt
Term
latency
Definition
industry versus inferiority
Term
puberty & adolescence
Definition
identity versus role confusion
Term
young adulthood
Definition
intimacy versus isolation
Term
adulthood
Definition
generativity versus stagnation
Term
maturity
Definition
ego identity versus despair
Term
Psychosocial Analysis - Karen Horney
Definition
anxiety is not an inevitgable part of th ehuman condition - it is created by social forces
Term
Neutotic trends - 3 primary types
Definition
moving toward - accepting feeligns of helplessness and becoming compliant to win affection
moving against - accepting environment as hostile
moving away
Term
Harry Stack Sullivan
Definition
Interpersonal Psychiatry
Term
Interpersonal Psychiatry - security operations - sublimation
Definition
discharge of uncomfortable feelings in socially acceptable ways
Term
Interpersonal Psychiatry - security operations - selective inattention
Definition
limits a persons' ability to cope effectively
Term
Interpersonal Psychiatry - security operations - as if
Definition
acting out a false but practical role
Term
Abraham Maslow
Definition
Hierarchy of Needs
Term
Sets of needs
Definition
physiological - biological survival
security - stability, order structure
love and belonging - give and receive - belonging to group
self-esteem - competence and achievment independence freedom
self-actualization - self-directed, ethical, creative, capable of friendship
Term
BF Skinner
Definition
Behavioral Theory
Term
John Rotter, Albert Bandura
Definition
Social Learning Theory
Term
Raymond Cattell
Definition
16 Dimension theory - measure 16 PF
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