Family therapy review

Question 1

Cybernetics

Answer 1

Negative feedback loops - return to homeostasis , decreases deviation

Positive feedback loops - escalation, increases deviation

Question 2

Deviant marital types (lidz)

Answer 2

Marital schism
Power struggles, threats to separate

Marital skew
Meeting ones needs at cost of the other

Question 3

Munichin

Answer 3

strong parental coalition as ideal

Boundary issues
Triangulation - child in middle
Detouring- parents express distress thru a child
Stable coalition - parent child allies against other parent

Question 4

Object relations family therapy

Answer 4

Unconscious projections

Question 5

Framo

Answer 5

Family origin sessions

Question 6

Double blind

Answer 6

Three part dilemma

Doing something is wrong, not doing it is wrong, pointing out the inconstancy is wrong

Question 7

Haley

Answer 7

Presenting problems only

Interrupting feedback

Question 8

Milan group

Answer 8

Systematic
Circular questioning
Prescription of ritual

Question 9

Bowen

Answer 9

disturbed families are a single organism, and the targeted patient is the projection of the sum of the problems

Triangles
Genograms
Undifferentiated ego mass

Goals
Differentiation

Question 10

Circular questioning

Answer 10

Group

Members reflect and express their ideas on the dynamics between other group members

Question 11

Behavioural family therapy model

Answer 11

Normal functioning:
Adaptive behaviour is rewarded, maladaptive behaviour not reinforced

In pathological families,
Maladaptive behaviours are reinforced thru family attention

Question 12

Stuart’s therapy

Answer 12

Caring days