Chapter 11: Family Therapy Flashcards
What is family therapy?
It represents a form of intervetion in which members of a family are assisted in identifying and changing problematic, maladaptive, repetitive relationship patters as well as self-defeating or limiting belief systems
What is Reciprocal causality?
observe repetitive ways in which family members interact and to use such data to initiate therapy
What is family structure?
how the family arranges, organizes, and maintains itself at a particular cross section in time
What is family process?
The way it evolves, adapts or changes of time
cybernetic epistemology
Circular causality
family homeostatisis
activates family learned mechanisms to return to homeostasis
3 key subsystems
The spousal, parental, and sibling
Boundaries are either…
rigid or flexible
second order cybernetics
where the therapist is introduced into the family system
