Family

Question 1

Couples Therapy

Answer 1

Objective is to resolve conflict and break out of destructive habits

Question 2

Family Therapy

Answer 2

Usually due to a member of the system having troubles

Question 3

homeostasis

Answer 3

In family therapy is the aim to remain stable and to reach equilibrium

Question 4

adaptability

Answer 4

in family therapy refers to maintaining a balance between stability and change

Question 5

triangulation

Answer 5

some family members are forming an unhealthy coalition against another family member

Question 6

enmeshment

Answer 6

a diffusion of boundaries - there are intrusions where there should not be any. It is as if one member of a family is trying to live through another member of that family

Question 7

disequilibrium

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refers more to family structure than to behavior

Question 8

time-out

Answer 8

removal of the child so that all attention is withdrawn as well

Question 9

coercion

Answer 9

forcible manipulation of a person to do what you want the person to do

Question 10

Premack principle

Answer 10

states that more probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behaviors

Question 11

Shaping

Answer 11

a behavioral technique that involves successive approximations of a desired behavior being reinforced as a means to teach a desired response

Question 12

Bowen

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Family systems theory

Each family members behavior affects everyone elses

Question 13

Salvador Minuchin

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Structural Family Theory

Focus is on the structure of the family system (enmeshment and disengagement)

Question 14

Virginia Satir

Answer 14

Conjoint Family Therapy

Involved in communication patterns and meta-communications

Question 15

Haley & Madanes

Answer 15

Integrate Family Therapy

Involves languaging;

Question 16

Whitaker

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Symbolic Family Therapy

Involves boundary setting, developing family nationalism, and separating & rejoining

Question 17

Haley & Madanes

Answer 17

Strategic Family Therapy
(Also known as Problem Solving Therapy)
focuses on how family use or abuse power, how they fail to communicate effectively & clearly, and how a symptom serves as a protection against something that is painful

Question 18

Sensate Focus Exercises

Answer 18

are used to eliminate performance anxiety by instructing the couple to engage in touching that is nonsexual or nonerotic. The thought here is that if the couple can feel comfortable with thouch then sexual erotic touch will not be as threatening

Question 19

Adler

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looked at goals of behavior, social interest, and overcoming feelings of inferiority

Question 20

Ackerman

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a psychoanalytic family therapist who looked at unconscious motives and early relationships

Question 21

Urie Brofenbrenner

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Ecological Systems Theory
Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem

Question 22

NPI

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National Provider Identification

Nationally recognized number that insurance companies use to reimburse providers.

Question 23

cybernetics

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… pioneered in the early 1940s by MIT mathematician Norbert Weiner to investigate the process of aiming a gun to hit a moving target.
Gregory Bateson adapted the theory to apply it to family systems.

Question 24

feedback loops

Answer 24

a “cybernetics” concept that suggests a self-correcting component of family systems

Question 25

morphostasis & morphogenesis

Answer 25

ability to balance stability & ability to change respectively