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Exam One Key Terms Flashcards

Key terms

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Testing

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Attachment theory

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Study of the innate tendency to seek out closeness to caretakers in the face of stress

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Black box metaphor

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the idea that because the mind is so complex it’s useful to study people’s input and output communication behavior rather than try to speculate about what goes inside

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Boundary

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An emotional barrier that protects the integrity of individuals subsystems and families

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Boundary making

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Negotiating the boundaries between members of a relationship and between a relationship and outside world

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Circular causality

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The idea that actions are interrelated through a series of reclusive loops or repeating cycles

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Closed system

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a functionally related group of elements regarded as forming a collective entity that does not interact with the surrounding environment

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Complimentary

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The reciprocity that is the defining feature of every relationship

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Complementary relationship

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Based on differences that fit together we’re qualities of one makeup for lacks and the other one is one-up while the other is one down

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Constructivism

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A relativistic point of view that emphasizes a subject construction of reality. implies that what we see in families may be based as much on our preconceptions As on what’s actually going on

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Content

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What is talked about as opposed to how it is talked about

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Culture

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Shared patterns of behavior and experience derived from settings in which people live

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Cybernetics

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The science of feedback how information especially positive and negative feedback loops can help self-regulate a system

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Differentiation of self

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Bowens term for psychological separation of intellect and emotions and Independence of self from others opposite of fusion

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Disengagement

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Psychological isolation that results from overly rigid boundaries around individuals and subsystems in a family

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Double blind

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A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction and an important relationship and cannot leave or comment

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Emotional reactivity

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The tendency to respond in a knee jerk emotional fashion rather than calmly and objectively

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Enmeshed

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Emotional over involvement

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Enmeshment

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Loss of autonomy do to a blurring of psychological boundaries

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Ethnicity

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The common ancestry through which groups of people have evolvd shared values and customs

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False self

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A defensive facade that characterizes some people’s dealings with others

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Family homeostasis

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Tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state

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Family life cycle

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stages of family life from separation from one’s parents to marriage having children growing older retirement and finally death

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Family rules

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A descriptive term for redundant behavioral patterns

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Family structure

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The functional organization of families that determines how family members interact

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Feedback loop

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The return of a portion of the output of a system, especially when used to maintain the output within predetermined limits (negative feedback), or to signal a need to modify the system (positive feedback)

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First-order change

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Temporarily or superficial changes within a system that do not alter the basic organization of the system itself

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General systems theory

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a biological model of living systems as whole entities that maintain themselves through continuous input and output from the environment developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy

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Group dynamics

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Emergent patterns of interaction in groups and families

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Identified patient

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The person whom others in the family assume that family problems for side with

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Linear causality

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The idea that one event is the cause and another is the effect; end behavior, the idea that one behavior is a stimulus, the other a response.

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Metacommunication

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Communication about communication usually at another level

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Morphogenesis

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The process by which a system changes its structure to adapt to new contexts

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Mystification

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Laing’s concept that many families distort their children’s experience by denying or relabeling it

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Narrative therapy

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An approach to treatment that emphasizes the role of the stories people construct about their experiences

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Negative feedback

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Information that signals a system to correct a deviation and restore the status quo

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Open system

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A set of interrelated elements they exchange information energy and material with the surrounding environment

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Positive feedback

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Information that confirms and reinforces the direction a system is taking

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Positive feedback mechanism

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Signaling a system to amplify change

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Process

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How members of a family or group relate

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Process / content

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How members of a family or group (process) as opposed to what they talked about (content)

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Pseudo

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Wynne’s term for superficial bickering that masks pathological alignments in schizophrenic families

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Pseudomutuality

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Wynne’s term for the facade of family Harmony that characterizes many schizophrenic families

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Reframing

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Relabeling a family’s description of behavior to make it more amenable to therapeutic change for example describing someone as lazy rather than depressed

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Role playing

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Acting out the parts of important characters to dramatize feelings and practice new ways of relating

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Rubber fence

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Wynne’s term for the rigid boundary surrounding many skitsofrantic families which allow only minimal contact with the surrounding community

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Runaway

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Unchecked positive feedback that causes a family or system to get out of control

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Schizophrenogenic mother

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Frida Fromm-Reichmann’s term for aggressive domineering mothers thought to precipitate schizophrenia in their offspring

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Second-order change

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Basic change in the structure and functioning of a system

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Social constructionism

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Like constructivism, challenges the notion of an objective basis for knowledge. Knowledge and meaning are shaped by culturally shared assumptions.

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Solution-focused therapy

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Steve de Shazer’s term for a style of therapy that emphasizes the solutions that families have already developed for their problems.

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Subsystems

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Smaller units in families, determined by generation, sex, or function.

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Symmetrical relationship

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A relationship of equality or parallel form

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Systems theory

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Understanding an organized unit such as family based on the parts and how they interact

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Triangle

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A three-person system, according to Bowen, the smallest stable unit of human relations

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Triangulation

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Detouring conflict between two people by involving a third person, stabilizing the relationship between the original pair

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Undifferentiated family ego Mass

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Bowens early term for emotional stuck togetherness or fusion and the family, especially prominent and schizophrenic families.

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Done

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