Contextual

Question 1

Contextual Therapy believes people get their needs met how?

Answer 1

Finding balance and fairness, people naturally keep track of relationships.

Question 2

The Major Concepts of Contextual Therapy?

Answer 2

Destructive entitlement, Entitlement, Exoneration, Justice/Fairness, Ledger, Legacy, Loyalty, Merit, Multidirectional partiality, Parentification, trustworthieness

Question 3

What is the theory of dysfunction for Contextual Theory?

Answer 3

The trustworthiness of relationships breaks down because fairness, caring and accountability are absent.

Question 4

The Contextual Theory of Change ?

Answer 4

A preventative plan for current and future generations.

Restore people’s capacity to give through fair relating and trust.

Question 5

Stages of Therapy in Contextual Theory?

Answer 5

• Unit of treatment is decided by the therapist
• Engagement
• Focus on cognitive exploration of historic factors that are having impact on current relationships
• Alter perceptions of family and individuals
• Facilitate problem solving
• Encourage family members to increase their options by expanding the trust basis of their own relationships
• Therapy is long term

Question 6

What is the length of Contextual Therapy?

Answer 6

Long term

Question 7

What is the stance of a Contextual Therapist?

Answer 7

Active Personal engagement
Co-therapy is encouraged 
Raise issues of relational balances
A catalyst of resources
Advocate for all within the basic relational context.

Question 8

What are the methods and techniques of Contextual theory?

Answer 8

• Multidirectional partiality
• listening
• observing
• responding to unconscious material
• the decision of whom to see belongs to the therapist and is based info shared by the family
• couple treatment is not considered a separate modality

Question 9

Diagnosing and Assessment through Contextual Therapy

Answer 9

• Family resources are the main focus of assessment, they are seen as potentially self-validating
• Observations of family relationships includes all 4 dimensions
• Assessment is ongoing
• Triangles are assessed

Question 10

What is Merit?

Answer 10

What is earned through accumulation of care and concern towards others.

Question 11

What is Ledger?

Answer 11

An internal system in which the relative balance of debts and entitlements is kept.

Question 12

The Contextual Therapist takes what type of stance?

Answer 12

Multidirectional Partiality

Question 13

What is Multidirectional Partiality?

Answer 13

The therapist takes a stance in which the therapist is accountable to and supportive of all members of the family.

Question 14

Equitable Asymmetry

Answer 14

The unequal, but healthy degree of care and consideration given by parents,toward children.

Question 15

Revolving Slate (of Injustice)

Answer 15

The generational prepetuation of destructive entitlement where one generation damages the next innocent generation. Reinforced by earned destructive entitlement.

Question 16

Relational Ethics

Answer 16

The fundamental dynamic force that holds families and communities together through reliability and trustworthiness.

Question 17

Entitlements

Answer 17

What each person is inherently and fairly due and what each accrues based on his/her behavior toward others and other’s behavior toward him/her.

Question 18

Exoneration

Answer 18

When the therapist helps the client see the positive intent and intergenerational loyalty issues behind even the destructive behaviors of the previous generations. Also thought of as Forgiveness.

Question 19

What is the goal of Contextual Therapy?

Answer 19

Exoneration, to allow clients to have understanding and forgiveness for family and past generations.

Question 20

Filial Loyalty

Answer 20

The care and concern given to children results in loyalty inherent in children toward parents.

Question 21

Destructive Entitlements

Answer 21

The development of symptomatic behaviors in the pursuit of self-justifying and harmful means to satisfy the perception of what is due as a result of deficient caring and responsibility in parenting.

Question 22

Split Filial Loyalty

Answer 22

Parents require the child to choose between them. The child must be loyal to one at the expense of the loyalty of the other. The child becomes symptomatic in attempts to bring the parents together.

Question 23

Loyalty

Answer 23

The internalized set of expectations, injunctions, and obligations, deriving from interactions with ones family of origin.

Question 24

Invisible Loyalties

Answer 24

Unconscious obligations that children take on in order to help their families, sacrificing their own interests and well being in the process.

Question 25

Rejunctive Moves

Answer 25

Moves toward trustworthiness relatedness

Question 26

Disjunctive Moves

Answer 26

Moves away from trustworthiness relatedness