Facts to Know Flashcards
Classical Schools
MRI Model
Strategic Family Therapy
Milan Systemic
Structural Family Therapy
Emotionally Focus Therapy
Psycho-Educational
Internal Family System
Post Modern Models
Solution-Focused
Narrative
Collaborative Family Therapy
CBT Family Therapy
Transgenerational Models
Bowenian Family Therapy
Contextual Family Therapy
Object-Relations Theory
Similarities b/w Strategic and Milan
-Counselor aligns with parents
-Hierarchy and structure very important
Classical Schools Beginning
Classical Schools of family therapy. There were the first models developed from the ground up exclusively for families, promoting the practice of MFT as a distinct fields
3 Experiential approaches
Symbolic-Experiential (Witaker and Satir)
Emotionally Focused
-humanistic psychology
-healthy individual promotes a healthy family system
-symptoms developed from emotional suppression within a family system
-responsibility to changes was completely on clients (very different from MRI where it is the responsibility of the counselor)
Post-Modern Therapy
Domain of MFT. Given its focus on the subjective. lived reality of each individual and guiding therapy in a way that promotes new ways of interpreting experience, both individually and collectively, concepts of social constructivism flow throughout this approach to therapy
Partner Violence
If partner violence is current and ongoing then partners should not be seen for conjoint therapy until abuse has ended. They should do separate group therapy until abuse stops.
Chemical and alcohol dependence
If chemical or alcohol dependency is an issue then family therapy is appropriate concurrently with having the person addicted go to an addiction program/group.
Marital Schism
the parents are overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage, the individuals and the children (Theodore Lidz)
Marital Skew
One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent (Theodore Lidz)
Pseudomutuality
Describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy (Lyman Wynne)
Pseudohostility
A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both affections and splits (Lyman Wynne)
Rubber-Fence Boundary
The families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information outside systems (lyman Wynne)
Tickling the Defenses
This denoted his famous phrase for teasing, provoking, and stimulating members of the family to open up and say what is really on their minds (nathan Ackerman)
