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| elements of a system automatically adapt in order to coordinate functioning; takes effort |
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| a strong relationship between two people that is not at the expense of a third. |
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| physical or emotional barriers that are to protect and enhance integrity and individuality, or the family |
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| actions are related through a series of loops or repeated cycles |
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| Cross-generational coalition |
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| when an inappropriate relationship in the family is built between generations (parent to child) at the expense of another family member |
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| Complementary Relationships |
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| based on differences that fit together where one person lacks, the other gives |
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| the reciprocity that is the defining feature of every relationship |
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| a relationship between two people that is at the expense of a third |
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| a healthy trait, when one is able to psychologically separate himself of emotions and intellect from others; opposite of fusion |
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| psychological isolation due to rigid boundaries |
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| contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction are being received and leads to conflict |
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| knee-jerk reactions that result when one responds irrationally |
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| an interaction stimulated in family therapy that are designed to observe and then change transactions of the family structure |
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| the loss of autonomy due to the blurring of boundaries |
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| the same goal can be met in a variety of ways (i.e. it does not matter who changes first). |
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| one who functions as the social and emotional leader; typically the wife |
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| the personifying of experiences as if external to the person |
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| when the family is resistant to any change in order to maintain their steady state |
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| the standards/governors for redundant behavioral patterns |
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| the functional organization of families that determines how family members interact |
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| the family conceived as a collective whole entity made up of individual parts plus the way they function together |
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| the return of a portion of the output of a system, especially when used to maintain the output within predetermined limits, or to signal a need to modify the system. |
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| the introduction of artificial changes within a system that does not alter the system |
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| the idea that symptoms are often ways to distract and otherwise protect family members from threatening conflicts |
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| interactions among group members that emerge as a result of properties of the group rather than merely their individual personalities |
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| family functioning based on clear generational boundaries of control and authority |
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| one who functions as the task and decision-maker; typically the husband |
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| changing maladaptive transactions by using strong affect, repeated intervention, and prolonged pressure |
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| when parents are instructed to mysteriously run away together |
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| when the therapist gains the trust of their client/family |
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| the idea that 1 even is the cause and the other is the effect. A-->B |
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| when one partner dominates the other |
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| every message has two levels: report and command |
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| the 'process' by which a system changes its structure to adapt to new contexts |
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| when parents distort their child's reality by relabeling or ignoring |
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| output that signals a system to correct or deviate |
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| balanced acceptance of family members |
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| the idea that one's past determines a person's mode in current relationships |
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| a set of interrelated elements that exchange information, energy, and material with the surrounding environment |
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| a functionally related group of elements regarded as forming a collective entity that does no interact with the surrounding environment |
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| a type of paradoxical intervention when a client is charged to do something more difficult that their symptoms |
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| a self-contradictory statement based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises |
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| a technique used in strategic therapy whereby the therapist directs family members to continue their symptomatic bx. |
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| ascribing positive motives to family bx in order to promote family cohesion and avoid resistance to therapy |
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| intervention where family members are asked to pretend to engage in symptomatic bx. |
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| how one communicates/relates |
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| superficial bickering that masks pathological alignments in schizophrenic families |
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| facade of family harmony that characterizes many schizophrenic families |
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| relabeling a family's description of bx to make it more amenable to therapeutic change (lazy vs. depressed) |
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| a strategic technique for overcoming resistance by suggesting that family not change |
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| a set of prescribed actions by the therapist to change the family rules |
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| rigid boundaries that only allow minimal contact with the surrounding communities |
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| basic change in the structure and functioning of a system |
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| reinforcing change in small steps |
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| knowledge and meaning are shaped by culturally shared assumptions |
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| smaller units in families |
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| in relationships, equal or parallel form |
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| distorted emotional reactions to present relationships based on unresolved early family relations |
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| a three-person system; the smallest stable unit of human relations |
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| detouring conflict between two people by involving a third person, stabilizing the relationship between the original pair |
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| Undifferentiated family ego mass |
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| term of emotional "stuck together-ness" or fusion in the family |
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FIRST to value the entire family in order to understand the children’s roles.
(had a keen sense for the family in that it may look as a unit, but underneath is all, the family is split into competing parts) |
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| Schizophrenic studier; double bind; metacommunication |
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| Family should be studied as a unit… emphasized theory and to this day, is the most fertile system of ideas family therapy has produced (concept: differentiation of self) |
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| co-therapy; stress is a means for change |
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| troubled youth…ENMESHED, DISENGAGED…talked about JOINING |
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| MOST influential in the development of family therapy; Described problematic patterns of communication in ways that are still useful today. (concept: family homeostasis) |
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| Family of orgin frames: six frames: coping, modeling, role, defining, reversal, and loyalty frames |
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| moving away from cybernetic-biological analogy for family systems. She is sensitive to gender, and wants a second order view |
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| ATTACHMENT and the emotional unit: how the entire family functions. Moves away from focusing on the dyad of mother and child relationship and works to see the whole |
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| Genograms are effective in bringing up awareness and sensitivity of a families background and culture |
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