Contextual Family Therapy

Question 1

Primary Contributors

Answer 1

Nagy

Question 2

Role of the Therapist

Answer 2

1. non-pathologizing

2. multidirectional partiality (gives each member time to feel listened and heard)

Question 3

Length of Time

Answer 3

Long Term

Question 4

Unit of Treatment

Answer 4

individual or FOO depending on who is related to the problem

Question 5

Assumptions of CFT

Answer 5

family members strive to promote FAIRNESS and TRUSTWORTHINESS

Question 6

multidirectional pertiality

Answer 6

therapist sides with each member of the family throughout therapy to foster personal growth and responsibility

Question 7

Goals of Treatment

Answer 7

1. balance out faireness b/w family members

2. for members to experience exoneration

Question 8

filial loyalty

Answer 8

the loyalty children expected to have towards parents

Question 9

relational ethics

Answer 9

balance of equality and fairness among relationships MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON FAMILIES

Question 10

revolving slate of injustice

Answer 10

transgenerational process in which destructive entitlements are passed through generations

Question 11

entitlements

Answer 11

expected rights by the children

Question 12

ledgers

Answer 12

what each person believes they are owed based on fairness

Question 13

multidirectional partiality (over neutrality)

Answer 13

thp aligns with each member of the family

Question 14

destructive entitlement

Answer 14

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. “The right to bear a grudge.”