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Chapt 6- Experiential models Flashcards

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What is the goal of experiential therapy?

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to unblock honest emotional expression in families and to open individuals to their inner experience
“helping them to be more fully human”
-therapists, known for authenticity and self disclosure
-HERE AND NOW experience

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What qualities do “healthy people” have according to Whittaker?

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grow up in an atmosphere that supports their feelings, natural creativity, and individual growth

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What qualities do healthy people have according to Satir?

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nuture and open communication; talk candidly and listen to one another, give affection, and genuinely care

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What qualities do dysfunctional families have?

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avoidance of feelings; supress awareness and the expression of impulses; seek safety rather than growth; orient toward the past and the future, and not the present
-individuals- incapable of autonomy or spontaneity; low self esteem and destructive communication patterns

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How is assessment work?

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unstructured; focus is on the suppressed emotions and impulses that block the growth and fulfillment of individual family members
-focus on here and now experience

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How is the treatment belief for experiential therapy?

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belief that people are naturally creative, loving, and productive if they are free from constraint

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What is the therapist role for tx?

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serves as a model; supporting and confronting family members

-participates fully; active and directive

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Who are the practitioners of experiential models?

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Greenberg & Johnson; Kempler (Gestalt), Levant (client centered )

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What are some techniques used in exp?

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Family structure; family art therapy, symbolic drawing of life space, and role playing

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What did Whitaker advocate in therapy?

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have a co therapist- to help counterbalance and with countertransference reactions

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Some experiential therapist don’t do a family history, who did?

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Whitaker

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when the therapist decides who should attend and asssumes the position of leader in order to block the family patterns of behavior- what term?

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battle for structure

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when the therapist communicates that the responsibility for the treatment belongs to the family- what term?

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battle for initiative

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How many generations did Whitaker in Symbolic therapy require?

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2 or 3 generations in therapy

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Assimilation and accommodation, regression and reintegration are what?

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the processes of change

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“Intimacy and separateness are…” what?

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correlated

-ex: as one increases so must the other

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Craziness in dysfunctional families falls in to 3 categories- what are they?

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“driven crazy”- a member has been driven outside the family
“going crazy”-intensified version of therapeutic neurosis
“acting crazy”-member regresses in to crazy behavior when faced with intolerable anxiety

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How does assessment go for symbolic therapy?

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assessment begins with the first telephone contact

  • includes the largest system available -whole system and subsystems
  • therapists own responses are important (level of anxiety, physical sensations..”
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What is the goal of symbolic therapy?

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to establish the members a senses of belongingness and simultaneously to provide the freedom to individuality
-seek to increase creativity or “craziness”

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What are the 10 general goals according to Whitaker and Keith?

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  • increase the level of stress
  • develop a family nationalism
  • expand relationship with extended family
  • expand relationships with culture and comm.
  • develop a sense of family boundaries
  • separate the generations
  • learns to play as a family
  • develop a we-they, therapist-family split
  • explode the myth of individuality
  • allow each member to become him/herself
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therapist adopting the language, accent, rhythm, or posture of the family- what term?

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bilateral transference

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What is the single most important factors in successful treatments?

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therapists personality and psychological health

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What was the effectiveness of sympbolic approach?

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had little empirical outcome data

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What were some problems in the treatment for symbolic?

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therapists can become so much a part of the family they can’t help change it; can fail to acknowledge their own anxiety or stress; mixing culture; misuse of valid techniques

25
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What type of model did Virginia Satir use?

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Human Validation process model

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What did Satir assume about humans?

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that humans strive for growth and potential; people want to be whole, authentic, sensitive, and genuine with one another.

27
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According to Satir, symptoms were the result of…..?

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blockage

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A Satir technique, that helped clients experience the different parts of their personalities and enable them to see how they operate as an integrate whole

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parts party

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What were Satir’s 5 styles of communication?

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placating, avoiding, blaming, computing, and leveling

30
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communication that: pacifying, smoothing over differences, being nice, being protective, defending others gently, covering up

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Placating

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communication that: uses logic, lecturing, using outside authority

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computing

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communication that: is “real” responding”; integrated, flowing, and alive; appropriate to the situation

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leveling

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What type of Satir treatment was used for couples?

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Conjoint marital therapy; both marital partners are seen together by the same therapist or co-therapist;
-used specifically for married couples with no kids; which one or both have a psychiatric disorder or social disorder

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What did Satir’s goals for changes in each partner include?

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  1. Cognitive and affective change in the perception of self and other
  2. change in the way thoughts and feelings are expressed
  3. . change in reactions to others
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Treatment for conjoint marital therapy involves?

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communication analysis, model analysis, and label or role function analysis
-examines the couples ability to make room for self and others

36
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treatment that represents a growing child’s method for making sense of his/her parents differences and the way he/she selects those aspects of parental male/female role models that become a blueprint for his/her behavior and expectations

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model integration analysis

37
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term: the way one comments about thoughts and feelings in the presence of othersalong three dimensions

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manifesting self

38
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term: the match between what one says and does and how one sounds and looks

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congruency

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term: the clarity in how one sounds, looks, and what one does

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delineation

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term: wholeness and specificity of the message

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completeness

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Goal for Satir’s couples?

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help partners improve the clarity of their communication; to help partners understand that to be different is not cause for war but helps them honor the other’s uniqueness

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Therapist role in conjoint marital therapy?

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therapist to make full use of him/herself; serves as a camera; more observant communication; serves as a model of communication; a resource

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What is the goal of EFT?

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to reprocess experience and reorganize interactions to create a secure bond between the partners, a sense of secure connectedness
-looks within at how partners construct their emotional experience of relatedness and between at how partners engage each other

44
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How long is treatment in EFT?

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8-20 sessions; brief

45
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What type of approach is EFT?

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a humanistic approach

-recognizes the importance of emotion

46
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What are the main approaches to the practice of EFT?

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  1. focus on process
  2. focus on the necessity for a safe, collaborative therapeutic alliance
  3. focus on health; nonpathologizing model
  4. focus on emotion
  5. focus on a corrective emotional experience
47
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What main systemic technique does EFT draw from?

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Minuchins structural approach

48
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Emotions are:

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they inform us and then communicate to others what our motivations and needs are; music to the attachment dance

49
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What does Bowlby’s secure attachment look like?

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self that is worthy of love and care; belief that others are dependable and worthy of trust

50
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How is assessment and treatment used in EFT?

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therapist functions as a process consultant; 2 conjoin and 2 individuals sessions

51
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What are the 9 steps of EFT treatment?

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  1. cycle de-escalation- Assessment, identifying the problem, accessing the unacknowledged emotions, reframing
  2. changing interactional positions- promoting identification, promoting acceptance, facilitating the expression of specific needs and wants
  3. consolidation/integration -facilitating the emergence of new solutions to old and consolidating new positions and new cycles
52
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Does EFT use both first and second order change?

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YES

53
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What is the final stage of EFT?

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prototypical bonding- event where the 2 now accessible partners initiate a new cycle that characterizes engagement and responsiveness

54
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Is EFT used for all couples? if not, what type of couple is it not?

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couples where abuse is an ongoing part of the relationship, it is not used.

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