Counseling Families, Diagnosis, and Advanced Concepts Flashcards
what is positioning and what family counseling theory typically employs it?
A type of paradoxical intervention when a helper accepts the client’s predicament and exaggerates its condition; an internal challenge to the catastrophizing of the client (ie, by exaggerating the client’s fear to a point where the client can take a new perspective and begin to deal with reality rather than emotional reality construction). This is called positioning.
“it’s possible your depression is hopeless and you’ll never get over it.”
- Strategic family therapy (paradoxical intervention)
morphostasis vs morphogenesis
morphostasis=stability
morphogenesis=change
What is the perverse triangle?
Jay Haley
The situation when two members were at different levels of the family hierarchy, usually a coalition between parent and child, team up against another family member. The alliance between the parent and the child may be overt or covert. The alliance against the other parent undermine his or her power in authority.
Solution oriented therapy focuses, primarily on:
a. The past.
b. The present.
c. The future.
D. Dream analysis.
The future
Narrative therapy is associated with the work of who?
Michael White, his wife, Cheryl, White, and David Epston
What is the concept of postmodernism?
Assumes there are no fixed truths in the world, only people’s individual perceptions of what constitutes the truth or reality
What are characteristics of feminist therapy?
Gender free
Strive for equality in human relationships
Person centered
What is TWA?
Theory of Work Adjustment by Rene Dawis and Lloyd Lofquist
TWA posits that the person must fit the job (i.e., the correspondence or congruence between the individual and the work must be high) in that the work must meet the needs of the person.
In other words, the relationship works both ways. Higher work satisfaction generally results in greater productivity. Work adjustment is basically the match between the expectations of the employee and the expectations of the place here she’s working.
What does the abbreviation PEC stand for in TWA?
Person environment correspondence
