Book Review

Question 1

Differentiation

Answer 1

Their ability to separate their intellectual and emotional function

Question 2

Emotional triangle

Answer 2

According to Bowen, when a two person system such as a spousal diet or a parent child, diet experiences, instability or stress, a third person may be recruited into the system to increase stability and reduce tension

Question 4

Family projection process

Answer 4

The family projection process is the process by which parental conflicts and emotional immaturity are transmitted to the children, which caused the child to have lower levels, a different differentiation than the parents

Question 5

Murry Bowen extended family system therapy has three interacting concept

Answer 5

Differentiation of self emotional triangle and family projection process

Question 6

Murry Bowen’s therapy technique

Answer 6

Mary Bowen‘s therapy techniques includes two family members usually the spouses so that the therapist can become a third member and a therapeutic triangle and remains objective and neutral and does not become emotionally triangle related Their presence helps the family to reduce fusion between them and increased differentiation

Question 7

Murry Bowen’s process

Answer 7

Assessment to identify the history of families, presenting problems, such as a genogram

Bowen assumes a role of an active expert or coach who helps each partner achieve greater differentiation

Sessions are educated, cognitive and controlled

Question 8

During Mary Murry Bowen, what are partners encourage

Answer 8

Partners are encouraged to talk to the therapist rather than to each other and speak in a factual calm manner

Question 9

What is a key technique in Murry

Answer 9

A key technique is questioning. The therapist frequently asked questions designed to diffuse emotion and help a partner think clearly about the problems.

Question 10

What does Bowien’s send clients home?

Answer 10

They want them to visit their family of origin why to help each triangulate family members and increase the level different differentiation

Question 11

Who developed structural family therapy

Answer 11

Salvador Minuchin

Question 12

What type of approach does structural family therapy

Answer 12

The type of approach it uses is here and now directive concrete approach

Question 14

What are some elements of structural family therapy by Salvador

Answer 14

He says that families have an implicit structure that determines how family members relate to one another and one element is power hierarchy to determine how members combine forces during time of conflict and another element is family subsystem, such as spouse or relationships parent child relationship relationships, and is defined by boundaries, which are barriers or rules that determine the amount of contact that’s allowed between family members

Question 16

What are the three chronic boundary problems that Minucci distinguishes between

Answer 16

The three chronic boundary problems include rigid triad, such as detouring when the parent focuses on either by overprotecting or blaming or escape, coating the child for family problems. Then there is a stable coalition triangulation.

Question 18

What is triangulation structural family therapy?

Answer 18

Instructional family therapy triangulation also known as unstable coalition occurs when each family or parent that the child sides with them against the other parent in this situation just constantly pulled into directions

Question 19

What is dysfunction and structural

Answer 19

Structural family therapy, maladaptive behavior or dysfunction is viewed as a result of inflexible family structure that prohibits the family from adapting maturational and situational stressors in a healthy way such as cycle, somatic families, those with diabetes or anorexic often exhibit a high degree of measurement that limits individual autonomy along with low tolerance for conflict and overprotectiveness these families the child symptoms helps diffuse family members conflict by diverting the attention away from it

Question 21

What is the primary goal of structural family

Answer 21

The primary goal is restructuring, the family, so that addresses symptom relief and other short-term goals, using technique drawn from other forms of therapy, such as behavioral techniques that are often used to get for example the anorexia child to eat

Question 22

What premise is structural family therapy based on

Answer 22

Structural family therapy is based on the premise that action proceeds understanding and emphasizes changing behavior rather than fostering insight. The process of structural family therapy involves three overlapping step steps.

Question 23

What are the overlapping steps that structural family therapy?

Answer 23

Joining evaluating the family structure and restructuring the family

Question 24

Joining structural family

Answer 24

Joining the therapist first task to develop therapeutic system of joining the family imposition of leadership. It involves blending with the family, such as tracking identifying the family values and members adopting the families effective communication Style.

Question 25

What is evaluating the family structure and structural family

Answer 25

Once the therapist is joined the family, they are in a position to evaluate the family structure. Include the transactional patterns, power hierarchy boundaries evaluation able to therapist to make structural diagnosis from the specific goals of therapy that can be derived from strengthening boundaries and a mesh families that might includeconstruction of a family structural map to help clarify family interaction patterns

Question 26

What is restructuring the family and structural family?

Answer 26

Restructuring, the family includes a variety of techniques which are designed to deliberately unbalanced trust to homeostasis in order to facilitate transformation of the family structure for example techniques include an act in which family members are asked to role-play their relationship pattern so they can identify an altar and reframing which includes labeling behavior so that they can be viewed more positive way

Question 27

Strategic family therapy by Jay Hayley and Milton Erickson how do they view maladaptive behavior? And what techniques do they include

Answer 27

They view maladaptive behavior and strategic family therapy as emphasizing the role communication and how to exert control in relationships for example. A symptom is an interpersonal phenomena that represents a strategy adaptive to a current social situation for controlling a relationship when all other strategies have failed.

Question 28

Is strategic family therapy struggles for Control are considered inherit in any relationship when do they become pathological?

Answer 28

They become pathological when one are both parties deny the iintent to control the other person, and when this produces symptomatic behavior

Question 29

What is the therapy goals in strategic family therapy?

Answer 29

The focus and strategic family therapy is on alleviating current symptoms by altering a family transactions and organizations such as hierarchies and generational boundaries

Question 30

Strategic family therapy what is an underlining assumption?

Answer 30

An underlining assumption is that behavior, change results and changes and perceptions and emotions

Question 32

What are the therapy techniques and strategic family

Answer 32

Therapy techniques include the first session is considered important determinant of course of therapy It is highly structured and involves four stages

Question 33

What are the four stages of therapy techniques and strategic family therapy?

Answer 33

The first stage is social stage when the therapist or in family interactions and encourages involvement in family members. Then the problem stage therapist gathers information on the reasons why family came to therapy and then the interaction stage family members discuss the identified problem and the therapist observed their interactions finally the goal setting stage which the therapist and family members agree on a contract that defines the goal of treatment.

Question 35

What do strategic family therapist assume

Answer 35

They assume an active take charge role and utilizes a variety of techniques that tailored to the family and problems

Question 36

During the course of therapy and strategic family therapy, the therapy, the therapist issues what

Answer 36

The therapist issues directives, which are often assignments to be performed outside therapy

Question 38

What is the directive and strategic family

Answer 38

A directive can involve a straightforward instruction for example of father, who always intrudes when his husband and daughter are arguing might be told to stop fearing and directive may take the form of paradoxical intervention

Question 39

What is an example or what are paradoxical interventions?

Answer 39

Paradoxical interventions alters behavior of family members by helping them see a symptom and a new alternative way to recognize. They have control of their behavior by using their resistance in a constructive way, resisting the directive a family member ends up, abandoning their dysfunctional behavior.

Question 41

List paradoxical interventions and strategic family therapy

Answer 41

Ordeals unpleasant task that the client must perform whenever the symptom occurs Restraining encouraging the family not to change Positioning exaggerating, the severity of a symptom Reframing re-labeling a symptom to give it more positive meaning Prescribing the symptom instructing a family member to deliberately engage in the symptom

Question 42

What is a background of Milan systemic family therapy?

Answer 42

Milan systemic family therapy was developed by Mara Salvini Palazio, who was trained as a child cycle analysis, but altered her therapy techniques when she found a family systems approach to be more effective for treating children with anorexia

Question 44

What premise is Milan systemic family therapy based on?

Answer 44

It is based on the premise that family systems are circular patterns of action reaction, and that maladaptive behavior results when a family pattern becomes so fixed that family members are no longer able to act creatively or make new choices about their lives

Question 45

What is the therapy goal of Milan systemic family therapy?

Answer 45

The primary goal of therapy is to help family members see their choices and to assist them in exercising their God for choosing a prerogative for choosing

Question 46

What is the distinguishing characteristic of systemic family therapy?

Answer 46

A distinguishing characteristic of systemic family therapy as a use of a therapeutic team one or more members of the team meet with the family during the sessions while remaining team members observe sessions behind a one-way mirror Strategy conference is common to share their observations or make suggestions

Question 48

What are the techniques the therapy techniques in Milan systemic family therapy

Answer 48

Techniques include hypothesis, neutrality, paradox, circular questions

Question 49

Describe the techniques of Milan systemic family therapy

Answer 49

Hypothesis, systemic family. Therapist used initial contact with the family as an opportunity to collect information that the team uses to derive tentative hypothesis about the functioning of the family system. They are then subsequently tested by team in conjunction with family and revise as necessary. Neutrality through throughout therapy, the therapist remains in all of the entire family, rather becoming recruited into the family, coalition or alliance Paradox, systemic family therapist make use of paradoxical strategies such as counter paradox the therapy double bind and positive connotations reframing

Question 50

In contrast to strategic therapist, systemic therapist do what

Answer 50

They do not use these techniques to elicit resistance, but instead to provide family members with information that will help them derive solutions to their problems

Question 51

Describe circular questions in Milan systemic family therapy

Answer 51

Circular questions in Milan, systemic family therapy are asked of each family member to help them recognize differences and similarities and their perceptions as an example to identify differences in perceptions and recent conflict. Each member might ask who’s more upset mom or dad.

Question 53

Behavioral family therapy is based on what

Answer 53

Based on principles of opera conditioning, social learning theory, social exchange theory, and includes marital therapy behavior, behavioral parent, training, and con joint sex therapy

Question 54

How do behavioral family therapy view maladaptive behavior?

Answer 54

The view maladaptive behavior as learned and maintained by its anesthetic and consequences

Question 55

What are the therapy goals of behavior, family therapy?

Answer 55

The major goal of behavior family therapy is to alter the environment factors into sentences and consequences that maintain the problematic behavior

Question 57

What are the therapy techniques and behavioral family therapy?

Answer 57

There are several techniques, one focus on observable behavior to ongoing assessment of behavior so identify the appropriate targets of family evaluate its facts three emphasize on increasing or decreasing target behaviors through the use of contingent reinforcement for focus on improving communication and problem-solving skills

Question 58

What is the current status of behavioral family therapy

Answer 58

In recent years, there has been a trend integrating elements of cognitive therapy into behavioral approaches, a family therapy, behavioral cognitive approaches such as family interactions as being influenced by external events that proceed and follow a family member, but also focus on contribution of maladaptive cognitions for example, dysfunctional scheme is negative automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions to problematic interactions

Question 59

Object, relation, family therapy view, maladaptive behavior

Answer 59

The view maladaptive behavior as a result of both interest, psychic and interpersonal factors

Question 60

What is a primary source of dysfunction object relations therapy

Answer 60

A primary source of dysfunction is projective identification, which occurs when a family member projects old interjects into another family member and then react to that person as though they actually have the projected characteristics or provoke. The person acting away, consistent with those characteristics.

Question 61

What are the goals and techniques of relations, family therapy?

Answer 61

The goals and techniques of object relations, family therapy is to resolve each family members attachment family introjects This entails, interpreting transferences resistance and other factors in order to foster insight

Question 62

What is considered essential to change an object relations, family therapy?

Answer 62

Essential to change an object relations, family therapy is fostering insight

Question 63

What do object relation family therapist recognize an address in therapy

Answer 63

Multiple transferences