Contextual Theories Flashcards
Relational ethics definition
fundamental dynamic force holding families together
Measures Reliability/loyalty
Trustworthiness
main tenets/focus of contextual
Relational ethics
achieving equitable balance and
acknowledging and fixing debts and ledgers
entitlements definition
what is inherently and fairly due and what each accrues based on behavior to one another
contextual theory emotional health/goal
depends on there being a balance between repayment of person’s debt to FOO And self-fulfillment/newer relationships
4 dimensions of contextual/relational psychology
facts, psychology, transactions, relational ethics
facts definition from contextual theory
Attributes people are born with (i.e.. gender, ethnicity, etc.) and life experiences (i.e. divorce, abuse,
psychology definition contextual
What happens within a person (i.e. thoughts, fantasies, emotions, and meanings made from these things
Transactions definition contextual
Patterns of family organization (i.e. hierarchy, triangles, transactional sequences)
contextual normal development
Person/family can maintain loyalty to expectations and obligations of foo, equitable asysmetry exists, filial responsibility, functional adults repay debts to the system
dysfunctional development in contextual
When parents are deficient in care and responsibility toward children, kids are denied their entitlements this leads to symptoms as seen in destructive entitlements.
Equitable assymmetry definition
When parents care for small kids (earn merit), which solidifies child’s loyalty.
filial responsibility
People in families accrue debts which are repaid to parents by caring for them and treating others ethically
contextual- when people are denied entitlements through manipulation, threats, or abuse- Parentification
Destructive entitlement
WHat happens if people are denied entitlements
Individuals denied entitlements will seek justice and pursue harmful means to satisfy their perception of what is due to them
split filial loyalty
Child made to be loyal to one parent over the other.
Revolving slate of injustice definition contextual
Generational perpetuation of destructive entitlement
contextual assessment
looks at resources across 4 domains; facts psychology transactions relational ethics
contextual treatment focus
resources, Attend to dimensions of individual and relational psychology
Examine family members’ capacity for expressing their ‘truths’ and convictions about fairness
Goals Contextual client
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
Therapist role contextual /intervention
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
Multidirectional partiality
Therapist advocates for ALL family members
exoneration in contextual
process through which balance is regained and trust restored when a client’s ledger contains destructive entitlement
Role of reenactments in contextual
brings out invisible loyalty or transference
cotherapy role in contextual
can be used as model for equality and mutuality
Main theorist contextual
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
According to contextual family therapy, family generations are bound to each other by
Loyalties
Why would a strategic therapist prescribe an ordeal
To make the cost of keeping symptoms more than the benefit they are giving.
How.do ledgers get balanced?
Parents meet children’s needs. When grown, children take care of parents
Destructive entitlements
Destructive Entitlement
Refers to old hurts being revenged in
a new present and future.
For example…
Parentification
“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- …
Contextual theory of dysfunction
Trustworthiness breaks down because fairness caring and accountability are absent
