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Basic Issues in Family Therapy
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05/13/2013

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Adlerian family counseling
Definition

Alderian therapy or Adleiran brief therapy applied to families in either an open forum or in private and focusing on the teleology of interactions and family processing.

 

This model employes encouragement and supports democratic childrearing, especially the use of natural and logical consequences and other effective parenting processes described in STEP: systematic Training for Effective Parenting and active Parenting.

 

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Alfred Adler
Definition
Founder and developer of individual psychology (now called Adlerian psychology and therapy.
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Ansbacher
Definition
Often called the Dean of Adlerian Psychology, he is the co-author with his wife Rowena of three volumes and numerous articles on Adlerian pyschology.
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Bowen
Definition
The founder and developer of multigenerational family therapy.
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Dinkmeyer
Definition

An Adlerian therapist who co-authored with his father, Don C. Dinkmeyer, and Gary McKay, the parent training program called STEP.

 

He coined the term differentiated self.

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Dreikur
Definition

A child psychologist and family counselor who developed a systematic approach to Adlerian therapy.

 

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Family Systems
Definition
The family as an organized whole, including the way the various parts of the family function together
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Gestalt Therapy
Definition

Holistic psychology.

 

Focuses on the hear-and-now and the development of awareness and contact through experiments.

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Haley
Definition

Founder and co-developer of the Washington School of Strategic Family Therapy
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Human Validation process model
Definition

Satir's final description of her therapeutic model
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Individual psychology
Definition
Adler's term for his psychology and therapy.  Adler used the term individual to focus on the person as an indivisible whole functioning within a specific social context.
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Polster
Definition

Master Gestalt therapists

 

wrote Gestalt Therapy Integrated

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Psychology of use
Definition
Adler used this term to mean that we know people by how they act or use their traits and capcities:  It is the opposite of a psychology of possession (or descriptions of what they have within themselves).
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Ray Lowe
Definition
An Adlerian family therapist who studied with Rudolf Dreikurs; for years, he ran a family education center on Saturday mornings at the University of Oregon.
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Satir
Definition
The founder and developer of conjoint family therapy and the human validation process model.
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awareness
Definition
conscious knowing or that to which attention is given.  Part of the basic interests of Gestalt and experiential therapies.
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birth order
Definition
The order in which children are born in families.
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brief family therapy
Definition

Strategic approach is based on ideas that the problem the family brings to therapy really is the problem and that everything the family has done so far has only served to maintain the problem.

 

A model of strategic family therapy

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chronosystem
Definition

The pattern of environmental events and transitions that occur over the life of the individual and the family. 

 

In family therapy, we note the development of the chronosystem across the family life cycle.

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circular (or relational) questioning
Definition

A method of relational questioning that brings out the differences among family members.

 

Strategic therapist in Milan

 

Example:  What do you expect your mother will do when you and your father get into a fight?

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coaching
Definition

A therapeutic stance in helping family members to differentiate. 

 

Assumed by Bowen and Whitaker used in relation to the family team.

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congruence
Definition
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively what one thinks and feels in a manner that is appropriate to the context in which the communication is offered.  Congruence is similar to emotional honesty.
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contact
Definition

The way in which people interact with self, each other, and the environment.

 

Central to Gestalt and experiential therapies

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counter transference
Definition
Personal or distorted feelings that arise in the counselor or therapist for the client.  In family therapy, counter-transference occurs when emotional reactions are triggered due to the practitioner re-experiencing family of origin issues.
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counter-paradox
Definition

A directive that intends an interruption of the paradoxical family processes that keep and maintain a given problem.

 

Milan strategic therapists.

 

Example:  if the family process is seen as designed to maintain a depressed individual, a counter-paradox would be for the family to note change.

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differentiation of self
Definition
Bowen's term for a functional human being who is able to use reason to overcome emotional reactivity and is able to remain calm and observant in an emotionally charged family atmosphere.
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dyads
Definition
any two people or entities in a relationship
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emotional tracking
Definition

Following and uncovering of emotional content is often hidden from but present in individual family members.

 

Used by object relations family therapists

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enactment
Definition

Directive to engage in a set of behaviors or interactions that will allow the therapist either to assess family process or work on restructuring or re-aligning the family.

 

Used by structural family therapy

 

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enactments
Definition
A structural family therapy directive to engage in a set of behaviors or interactions that will allow the therapist either to assess family process or work on restructuring or re-aligning the family.
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exosystem
Definition

impact on the child's development that results from environmental systems that do not directly involve the child or person. 

ex:  mom gets a promotion and not home as much and the father quits job to stay home.

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experience
Definition

What individuals or families do or what happens to them.

 

Central to Satir and Gestalt

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experiential therapy
Definition

Individuals and families emphasize experience and change rather than teaching or reorganization.

 

Applied to Satir's human validation process, Whitaker's symbolic experiential model and Gestalt.

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experiment
Definition

Trying something out: one for of experience,

 

central to Gestalt Therapy

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externalization
Definition

An intervention designed to name problems and locate them as outside agents working on individuals or families.

 

Narrative therapy

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family atmosphere
Definition
An Adlerian description of the mood, feeling, or human climate maintained in the family.
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family constellation
Definition

Adler's term for family system.

 

Toman's name for birth order descriptions: It is Toman's model that ws incorporated by Bowen in multigenerational family therapy.

 

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family life-cycle
Definition

Developmental stages in a family's life as proposed by Carter, McGoldrick, and Bowen family therapy. 

 

The original family life cycle began when an individual separated from her family then entered into marriage, had children, got older, retired, and then death.

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family of origin
Definition
The original nuclear family of adults including parents and siblings.
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gender
Definition
A consideration of different perspectives brought to life experience by each sex; one of the meta frameworks.
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joining
Definition
A structural family therapy process by which the therapist accepts and accommodates the family or family members to win their confidence and sidestep resistance.
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lens
Definition
Another word for perspective or meta frameworks in family practice.
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macrosystem
Definition
The larger system of the individual. (society, religion, culture) that the individual lives and functions in and how these impact the development of the individual.
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mesosystem
Definition

Refers to the impact that occurs when microsystems interact.

 

bronfenbrenner

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metacommunication/metamessages
Definition

The idea that every message or communication has both content and a comment that indicates how the content should be received.  Satir looked at tone of voice and body language as a means of understanding metacommunication.  

 

Strategic family therapists look at the directives implied in communications as the metacommunication.

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metaframeworks
Definition

The development of multiple lenses or perspectives across models in family therapy.

 

internal family systems, tracking sequences, organization, development, gender, and multiculturalism and the lenses of a teleology and process.

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microsystem
Definition

All environmental, social, and political groups that directly impact the individual, especially a child during early development.

The family(nuclear, extended), the school, the neighborhood, friends, peers, religious affiliations and person's internal biology.

 

bronfenbrenner

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modernist
Definition
A belief in essences, independent reality, and the application of the scientific method and linear causality to understanding life experiences.
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monads
Definition
Any single individual or entity.
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not knowing position
Definition
A means of privileging client-as-expert in the therapy process.  A not-knowing position is greatly facilitated when a family practitioners follow their clients' stories very closely and continue to ask the next most interesting question.
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organization
Definition

The leadership and hierarchy of the family;

 

One of the metaframeworks.

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organization
Definition
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paradox
Definition
A self-contradictory statement or position based on equally acceptable premises.
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patriachy
Definition
The misuse of power and control by masculine authority, either individually or systemically, patriarchy discriminates against and oppresses both genders and often is
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postmodern perspective
Definition
A belief in multiple realities, and a valuing of multiple perspectives, voices, and narratives.  A rejection of positivism that views knowledge as relative and co-constructed within given contexts.  Postmodernism is the philosophical epistemology for social constructionism.
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preferred solutions
Definition

Given an opportunity and support, clients actually can develop a life that they choose and prefer over what they have been living.

 

Social constructionist

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purpose
Definition

Central to Adlerian therapy.

 

It is what is intended or that which motivates, as in the goals of misbehavior in children or a discovery of the purpose of a feeling, such as anxiety.

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recursive
Definition
One part, stage, or event influencing and being influenced by every other part, stage, or event in the system.
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reflecting team
Definition

Having a group of observers share their reactions with the family after a session.  This team serves to provide clients with multiple perspectives and creates dialogues and dialogues about dialogues.

 

social constructionism. Tom Andersens

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reframing
Definition

Relabeling individual or family behaviors, symptoms, problems ore processes to highlight the good intentions behind them or to make them more amenable to change or therapeutic intervention.

Adlerians - highlight good intentions or motives.

Satir - generate new awareness or possibilities or possibilities in communication

Structural/strategic family T use it to describe symptoms or problems in a more-human, everyday language.

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sculpting
Definition

Placing family members in physical positions that depict emotional closeness and distance as well as common communications, interactions, roles, or alliances among members of the family system.

 

Satir and Duhl

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sequence of interactions
Definition
Interactions that follow one from another.  One of the lenses developed as a meta framework that unifies the tracking process of various systems therapies and considers sequences that are face-to-face, developmental, and cross generational.
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social constructionist
Definition

Believes social realities and experiences are co-constructed, as is the meaning that is attached to social interactions. 

This is a postmodern perspective.

 

Linguistic therapy, narrative therapy, reflecting teams, solution-focused and solution oriented therapies.

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social embeddedness
Definition
An Adlerian term for contexts, social and cultural, in which a person is raised.
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subsystems
Definition
A smaller systemic groups within a larger system.
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transference
Definition
Personal or distorted feelings that arise in the client for the counselor or therapist.  In family therapy, transference occurs when emotional reactions to the family practitioner or other family members are triggered due to re-experiencing family of origin issues.
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triads
Definition
any three people or entities in relations to each other.
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triangulation
Definition

Bowen conceptualization of negative triadic process. In multigenerational family therapy, triangles always result in two-against-one experience. 

 

Triangulation is the invitation of a third member into a dyadic relationship for the purpose of diffusing or distorting the intensity of the pair's transactions.

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unconscious
Definition
Freud's term for the place in the psyche where repressed memories, experiences, and feelings are stored.  Other models use the term to mean outside of individual awareness.
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