Families Mid Flashcards
Double blind is who’s concept? And for what?
Bates concept for the conflict people experience when an individual receives contradictory messages from an important loved one, and can neither leave the situation nor comment on the contradiction.
What is cybernetics?
The study of the way systems maintain stability and control through levels of feedback.
What is marital schism?
A martial schism is lidz’s term for marital conflict.
What is marital skew?
Is lidz’s term for a marriage in which one spouse dominates the other.
What are boundaries?
Boundaries are emotional barriers that protect the autonomy and functioning of both individuals and sub-systems within the family.
What is a family cycle?
A mainly cycle is the various stages of family life, each of which typically requires some structural modifications in the family.
What is perspectivism?
Perspectivism is the view that we can never be fully objective because or observations are filtered through our own particular individual perspectives.
What starts in the first session?
Family counsellors should try to establish a work alliance with the family, balancing warmth with professionalism.
Negative feedback in systems theory is?
Any action that reduces deviation within a system and brings the system back to its former balanced state.
Positive feedback is?
Any action that increases deviation within the system and imbalanced the system.
What is enmeshment?
Enmeshment is a loss of autonomy due to a blurring of psychological boundaries.
What is family structure?
Family structure is usually unspoken, the organizational rules that govern how family members interact.
What is homeostasis?
Homeostasis is the tendency of a system to maintain a steady balance.
All communications have 2 levels what are they?
Content
Meta-communication.
It is important to observe meta-communication in family groups, more so than attending to the content level.
True or false?
True
What is genogram?
Genogram is a schematic diagram of a family system that can reveal intergenerational patterns.
A distinction family therapists make between how member of a family relate and what they talk about is known as the process/content distinction.
True
What is attachment?
Attachment is a feeling of secure connection to a loved one.
What is a black box metaphor?
A black box metaphor is the idea that because the mind is so complex, it’s better to study people’s input and output than to speculate about what goes on in their minds.
A boundary in family counselling is?
The appropriate emotional barrier that protects the integrity of individuals, subsystems and families.
Circular causality is?
The idea that events in a families are related through a series of interacting loops of repeating cycles.
Constructivism in family counselling is?
The idea that reality is constructed largely by the social group.
Cybernetics is?
The study of self-regulating systems, relates to family counselling because of the flow of information within the family unit; which is type of closed system and can tell us a great deal about how a family works.
What is disengagement?
Disengagement is the psychological insulation that results from overly rigid boundaries.
