Child & Family Therapy

Question 1

Systems Theory

Answer 1

Family is observed and treated as one system.
A system is more than the sum of its parts, and expresses synergy and emergent bx.

Question 2

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 2

Focus is on family hierarchy.
Therapist “joins” family to disrupt/restructure family patterns in hierarchy (often tx works in the home).

Genogram is not shared with the family.

Keywords: enmeshment (diffused personal boundaries), coalition (dysfunctional alliances between 2+ family members against another member), disengagement

Interventions

• enmeshment: tx helps family members create and express healthy boundaries, reflect on own wants and needs

Question 3

Bowen Family Therapy

Answer 3

Focus is on intergenerational transmission.

Genogram is made alongside with family.

Keywords: intergenerational transmission process, triangles, emotional cutoff

Interventions:

Question 4

Parenting Styles

Answer 4

Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive

Question 5

Attachment Styles

Answer 5

Secure
Anxious
Dismissive

Question 6

Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

Answer 6

Interventions must take place from the bottom up (neurodevelopment) and be appropriate for developmental age

Question 7

Family Life Cycle

Answer 7

Stages that a family passes through. The life cycle of the family as a whole as it continues through generations.