Contextual Theories

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Relational ethics definition

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fundamental dynamic force holding families together
Measures Reliability/loyalty
Trustworthiness

Question 2

main tenets/focus of contextual

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Relational ethics
achieving equitable balance and
acknowledging and fixing debts and ledgers

Question 3

entitlements definition

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what is inherently and fairly due and what each accrues based on behavior to one another

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contextual theory emotional health/goal

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depends on there being a balance between repayment of person’s debt to FOO And self-fulfillment/newer relationships

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4 dimensions of contextual/relational psychology

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facts, psychology, transactions, relational ethics

Question 6

facts definition from contextual theory

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Attributes people are born with (i.e.. gender, ethnicity, etc.) and life experiences (i.e. divorce, abuse,

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psychology definition contextual

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What happens within a person (i.e. thoughts, fantasies, emotions, and meanings made from these things

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Transactions definition contextual

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Patterns of family organization (i.e. hierarchy, triangles, transactional sequences)

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contextual normal development

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Person/family can maintain loyalty to expectations and obligations of foo, equitable asysmetry exists, filial responsibility, functional adults repay debts to the system

Question 10

dysfunctional development in contextual

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When parents are deficient in care and responsibility toward children, kids are denied their entitlements this leads to symptoms as seen in destructive entitlements.

Question 11

Equitable assymmetry definition

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When parents care for small kids (earn merit), which solidifies child’s loyalty.

Question 12

filial responsibility

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People in families accrue debts which are repaid to parents by caring for them and treating others ethically

Question 13

contextual- when people are denied entitlements through manipulation, threats, or abuse- Parentification

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Destructive entitlement

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WHat happens if people are denied entitlements

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Individuals denied entitlements will seek justice and pursue harmful means to satisfy their perception of what is due to them

Question 15

split filial loyalty

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Child made to be loyal to one parent over the other.

Question 16

Revolving slate of injustice definition contextual

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Generational perpetuation of destructive entitlement

Question 17

contextual assessment

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looks at resources across 4 domains; facts psychology transactions relational ethics

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contextual treatment focus

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resources, Attend to dimensions of individual and relational psychology
Examine family members’ capacity for expressing their ‘truths’ and convictions about fairness

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Goals Contextual client

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free themselves from invisible loyalties
Take responsibility
Reclaim disowned parts of themselves
Overcome irrational guilt and acknowledge justifiable guilt Make amends for actions
Balance debts

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Therapist role contextual /intervention

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Multidirectional partiality
Therapist advocates for ALL family members . Holds members accountable
Encouraging open negotiation of ledger issues Exploration of loyalty and ledger impasses, especially sources of destructive entitlement
De-parentification

Question 21

Multidirectional partiality

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Therapist advocates for ALL family members

Question 22

exoneration in contextual

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process through which balance is regained and trust restored when a client’s ledger contains destructive entitlement

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Role of reenactments in contextual

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brings out invisible loyalty or transference

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cotherapy role in contextual

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can be used as model for equality and mutuality

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Main theorist contextual

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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy

Question 26

According to contextual family therapy, family generations are bound to each other by

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Loyalties

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Why would a strategic therapist prescribe an ordeal

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To make the cost of keeping symptoms more than the benefit they are giving.

Question 28

How.do ledgers get balanced?

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Parents meet children’s needs. When grown, children take care of parents

Question 29

Destructive entitlements

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Destructive Entitlement
Refers to old hurts being revenged in
a new present and future.
For example…

Question 30

Parentification

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“parentification” has come to refer most commonly to the process through which a child adopts the responsibilities of an adult, with the adult, in turn, adopting the position of the child in the parent- …

Question 31

Contextual theory of dysfunction

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Trustworthiness breaks down because fairness caring and accountability are absent