Book Flashcards
Analogue comm
Non-verbal
Digital comm
Actual comm
Carl Rogers
I accept you how you are-be empathic;
Client-centered trans-theoretical approach- believes all therapy starts with listening, acting, structuring the interview
Skinner
Behaviorism-it’s possible to shape the behavior of the client by reinforcing behaviors during an interview
Selective inattention
Harry Stack Sullivan-1940’s - like Freud-imp to pay attention to what you don’t pay attention to
Bateson-oip
Observer imposed punctuation
1950’s-one says it starts with the other and vice versa
Abc leads to cba
Pygmalion effect-
Self fulfilling prophecy
Metacommunicate
Bateson referred to it as “comm about comm”-secondary comm- including indirect cues;
Equifinality-berttalanffy-1968
A concept in which states that many different origins can lead to the same results
128 core competencies in mft
Organized around 6 primary domains and 5 sub domains
Primary domains:
Admission to treatment, clinical assessment and diagnosis, treatment planning and case management, therapeutic intervention, legal issues, ethics, and standards, & research. And program eval.
Sub domains:
Conceptual,perceptual, executive,evaluative, and professional
If it works don’t fix it
Creates pos out of neg (berg & Miller)
Procedure of session:
Diffuse the crisis, reframe the symptoms, take a break
Epistemology
How you know what you know
Modernism
Positivism
Modernism
Descartes and Locke-root causes
Self-disclosure
How much time will u self-disclose?
Sharing personal info about yourself; opens up trust between u and client; dual relationship- “joined”
Timing n pacing
Hypothesize
Furnishing new info while limiting disorder (entropy-chaotic)
Circularity
Capacity of the therapist to conduct his investigation on the basis from the family in response to the info.
Examples:
Ranking- how a person would react if not there(actual or hypothetical), time related-raise the dead, future oriented ?, miracle ?, a person who does not answer the ?(if a person is in the room too), scaling?-in a scale of 1-10 assess how you are feeling in relation to the problem so:
Questions which involve other people in bringing about comm and the possibility of change
Equifinality
Input
Intake call
Therapist should be in control, invite the whole family, set up the battle for structure- lay the groundwork
3 stages of psychotherapy:
Remoralization-enhancing the clients sense of hopefulness
Remediation- resolution of symptoms, life problems
Rehabilitation-the unlearning of troublesome, long standing patterns, and new ways of dealing with various aspects of self and life
Genogram
Assess family history and get acquainted with the client
Attentive listening:
9 things: Focus in on initial stages of therapy, establish relationship, be confident, establish the contract, fees, informed consent, no secret rule, when to terminate, hw
Cognitive triad
Self, world/experience, and future
Schemata
Constant state of change, reinforced by family members actions &ambitions, beliefs, challenging a Schema may be so challenging for families that they leave therapy
1st and 2nd order change
Process over content
Participants observation
2nd order cybernetics; join and immerse yourself in a culture
Schematic
World view; constant state of change
1st order
Awareness-acquisition of knowledge;
Changing behavior
2nd order
Attributing levels of meaning to mans environment;
Changing beliefs at core level
Interventions:
Decatastrophizing-asking what if ?, fantasizing consequences, exploring advantages n disadvantages of maintaining a particular belief or behavior, what then type ?, use of exaggeration “ push down the premise”- th can help move family to more central position, scaling ?- helps reduce “all or nothing” thinking, self instruction- self talk narratives that help stop or create behaviors
What is a punctuation of a sequence of events?
AxB=BxA or AxOxB = BxOxA. Depending on the person’s point of view, they may disagree on whom a problem started with.
Pushing the premise/positioning
Over exaggerating the prob so much so that the family will disagree with me but now the family will bond
Restraining
Warning the family about change-slow down-one family member wants to but the ambivalence is that they will side with that person that does want to
Symptom prescription
Family is asked to perform or expand upon the symptom/prob.-going thru the problem they won’t want to divorce
Paradoxical intervention
Opposition to the goal of treatment
Milan model
Pre session-initial hypothesis,First
Session-validate or modify, break- team meets to form an intervention or plan of action, session 2- apply the intervention, post-session- analyze and plan for the next session
Positive connotation- put a positive spin on a label of a behavior in a family(not negative)
Reframing- can only be positive or negative
Reattribution
Redistribute responsibility to all related parties
Minuchin
When you kick someone out of the group you are creating a boundary of subsystems
Cybernetics
Same as systems theory- ca be used intermixed
