Family Therapy Theories & Concepts Flashcards
Characteristics of this parenting style include:
-strict rules
-punishment for failing to follow rules
-no explanation provided for rules
Authoritarian Parenting
Characteristics of this parenting style include:
-rules and guidelines
-parents are responsive to children
-reasons for rules are provided
-parent’s are more nurturing and forgiving when children break rules
-consequences rather than punishment
Authoritative Parenting
Characteristics of this parenting style include:
-few demands on the children
-parents rarely discipline
parents act more as friends rather than parents
Permissive Parenting
Characteristics of this parenting style include:
-very few demands
-low responsiveness and little
communication
-parents fulfill basic needs but are detached
Uninvolved Parenting
This theory views the family as a complex system of interconnected and interdependent individuals
Bowen’s Family Systems Theory
An approach that aims to strengthen individual and family life through a family perspective; the practice of equipping and empowering family members to develop knowledge and skills to enhance well-being of the family
Family Life Education
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Maintaining relationships w/ parents, siblings, peers
- Completing education
- Developing the foundations of family life
Stage 1: Family Origin Experiences
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Differentiating self from family of origin and parents; developing adult-to-adult relationships w/ parents
- Developing intimate peer relationships
- Beginning work, developing work identity, and financial independence
Stage 2: Leaving Home
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Selecting partners
- Developing a relationships
- Deciding to establish own home with someone
Stage 3: Pre-Marriage
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
-Developing a way to live together both practically and emotionally
-Adjusting relationships w/ families of origin and peers to include partner
Stage 4: Childless Couple
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Realigning family system to make space for children
- Adopting and developing parenting roles
- Realigning relationships w/ families of origin to include parenting and grandparenting roles
- Facilitating children to develop peer relationships
Stage 5: Family with Young Children
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Adjusting parent-child relationships to allow adolescents more autonomy
- Adjusting family relationships to focus on midlife relationships and career issues
- Taking on responsibility of caring for families of origin
Stage 6: Family with Adolescents
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Resolving midlife issues
- Negotiating adult-to-adult relationships w/ children
- Adjusting to living as a couple again
- Adjusting to including in-laws and grandchildren with the family circle
- Dealing w/ disabilities and death in the family of origin
Stage 7: Launching Children
This stage of the family life cycle consists of:
- Coping w/ physiological decline in self and others
- Adjusting to children taking a more central in family maintenance
- Valuing the wisdom and experience of the elderly
- Dealing w/ the loss of spouse and peers
- Preparing for death, review, and reminiscence
Stage 8: Family Life
This family therapy approach is vested in changing the behavior of the family members rather than changing their understanding.
Strategic Family Therapy
This family therapy approach stresses the importance of family organization for the functioning of the group; the social worker “joins” the family in effort to restructure it
Structural Family Therapy
This technique encourages family members to “pretend” and encourage voluntary control of behavior
Pretend Technique
Superficial behavior changes within a system that do not change the structure of the system
First-Order Changes
Changes to the systemic interaction pattern so the system is reorganized and functions more effectively
Second-Order Changes
The tendency to preserve familiar organization and communication patterns
Family Homeostasis
The tendency for family members to share an emotional response
Emotional Fusion
