Contextual Family Therapy

Question 1

Founder of Contextual Family Therapy?

Answer 1

Nagy - in the Transgenerational Model

Question 2

Contextual

Answer 2

refers to the systemic nature of all that are impacted by the therapeutic effort. Also refers to the social and political context within the family.

Question 3

Debts of Filial Responsibility

Answer 3

an account of a childs experience for the degrees of fairness and ethical consideration from their parents toward them. parents will either earns debt ( resulting in deconstructive entitlements) or Filial Responsibility ( resulting in loyalty)

Question 4

Deparentification Process

Answer 4

Two part process 1) the parent becomes temporarily parentified to relieve the parentified child and then 2) addresses the larger spectrum of family dynamics to work toward systemic change.

Question 5

Destructive Entitlement

Answer 5

This results when individuals experience the denial of entitlement from their family of origin and seek what they believed to be owed to them through a different relationship, typically their family of creation.

Question 6

Entitlement

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what individuals are inherently due from others in their family as well as what is earned from others based upon behavior toward them.

Question 7

Equitable Asymmetry

Answer 7

Refers to the concept that children are not able to care for themselves and are entirely dependent upon their parents - making them incredible vulnerable or delightfully entitled based upon their upbringing.

Question 8

Exoneration

Answer 8

process in which an individual restores balance within his or her ledger.

Question 9

Facts

Answer 9

One of the 4 dimensions of individual and relational psychology that interact with one another in CFT. Facts refer to the stable attributes that individuals are born with. ( gender, ethnicity, race) and the contextual circumstances of their upbringing. ( divorce, moving, trauma etc..)

Question 10

Filial Loyalty

Answer 10

concept that children are inherently loyal to their family of origin

Question 11

Ledger

Answer 11

the manner in which individuals within a family keep track of and balance debts and entitlements

Question 12

Legacy

Answer 12

certain attributes or qualities that are attributed to an individual as an account of being born to his or her parents.

Question 13

Loyalty

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refers to an individuals internalized expectations of and obligations to his or her family of origin. Concept is assumed to exert a powerful influence over the individuals functioning.

Question 14

Merit

Answer 14

merit is earned when parents are responsible and equitable with equitable asymmetry within the parent-child relationship. if they are ethical and fair they earn merit, which rewards them with loyalty from their childhood as they mature into adults.

Question 15

Multidirectional Partiality

Answer 15

the therapist remains accountable for everyone whose well being is potentially impacted by a therapeutic intervention. Every intervention must serve the best interests of everyone involved.

Question 16

Parentification

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A process where a child attempts to earn love from their parent by acting as their caretaker. The child takes on the role of parent for the parent.

Question 17

Psychology

Answer 17

4 dimensions of individual and relational psychology that interact with one another. Refers to the person;s internal experience of the world, including thoughts, desires, emotions and meanings . Facts are external and psychology develops internally with individual.

Question 18

Relational Ethics

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One of the 4 dimensions of individual and relational psychology. Refers to the responsibility each individual has for the impact that their behavior have on others. CFT endorses a consideration for the best interests of others in the family.

Question 19

Resolving slate of injustice

Answer 19

multi generational transmission of destructive entitlement in which one generation harms the next generation despite there was no wrong-doing.

Question 20

Split Filial Loyalty

Answer 20

when a child has to choose loyalty toward one parent at the expense of being loyal to the other parent.

Question 21

Transactions

Answer 21

4 dimensions of individual and relational psychology. Transactions refer to the patterns of organization and dynamics within the individuals family system.

Question 22

What do high functioning families have?

Answer 22

Reliability and Trustworthiness. They also nust maintain fairness.

Question 23

Who is involved in Contextual Family Therapy?

Answer 23

The therapist determines and directs who will come to therapy based on his or her determination of which individual contains the richest resources for promoting change within the family.

Question 24

How long is therapy?

Answer 24

Long term