Group & Family Therapy Flashcards
This term describes the act of cutting off contact with family to reduce or manage the anxiety and conflict. This can create isolation and emotional significance on future relationships.
Emotional Cutoff
In this intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), the family acts out a particular problem, shedding light on the structural dysfunction.
Enactments
Who developed Structural Family Therapy?
Salvadore Minuchin (sounds like an architect’s name)
This short term therapy is the most empirically validated couples and family therapy to date.
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)
A key concept of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is defined as the fundamental emotional reactions in response to a situation (like sadness in response to loss)
PRIMARY emotions
This type of group involves PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS, COUNSELING AND PSYCHOEDUCATION
Short-term
This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) involves breaking existing dysfunctional interactional sequences by using a new sequence.
Invariant Prescriptions
This family therapy was developed by GREENBERG and JOHNSON but it’s early founders were WHITAKER and SATIR
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)
A key concept of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is defined as emotional reactions to thoughts and feelings. Ex: feeling guilty about feeling angry
SECONDARY emotions
This term is defined as: any unit structured on feedback (ex: family)
System
This intervention of EFT is described as: connecting on a deeper level
Empathic Attunement
This occurs when boundaries are diffuse and results in a loss of autonomy. There is an over-dependence on one another (ex: parents not allowing siblings to work out their minor differences or a mother telling the child about her marital problems).
Enmeshed Family (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)
This stage of group, they’re looking at whether or not they’ve accomplished their goal.
Final Stage
In this stage of groups, there is FORMING in and out. Orientation to the group.
Initial Stage
This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when the client engages in an unpleasant activity if they engage in a problematic behavior
Ordeals
In this stage of group, members identify fears and challenges. Deal with ambivalence. Investment by members. Using “I” statements. Members determine the safety level of the group. CHECK-IN strategy.
Transition Stage
Examples of this type of group includes AA and NA
Support/Self-Help
When 2 undifferentiated people form a dysfunctional pattern and function as a single emotional system
Fusion
This therapy believes that dysfunctional family patterns of behavior are embedded within the family. The families perpetuate this through their actions which are misguided attempts at solving the problems.
Strategic Family Therapy
This occurs when boundaries are very rigid, resulting in a high degree of personal autonomy. Families become unaware of the impact on each other and have more dependence on outside systems (ex: parents who are not involved with a troubled child)
Disengaged Family (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)
This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when the symptomatic person like anxious person is asked to PRETEND to exhibit those symptoms exaggerated/over the top so that they appear to be on a more voluntary basis. Another approach is to ask the person to do something they normally wound’t do.
Pretend Technique
This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as superficial behavioral changes which do not change the structure due to underlying systemic rules not being changed.
First-order Changes
In the Modifying Problematic Interactions intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), this term describes trying to change hierarchal and relationships of subsystems
Unbalancing
This type of family therapy is derived from the work on feedback loops, double blinds, cybernetics, homeostasis, and circular causality by Bateson
Strategic Family Therapy
This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as all families encounter difficulties but the determining factor of whether or not it becomes a problem depends on the response of the family members. This can lead to them repeating the same cycles and escalation of that problem.
Circular Causality
In this intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), a therapist is an ARCHITECT of the interactions (ex: boundary making- trying to change distance between a meshed or disengaged subsystems)
Boundary making
This term describes the way that parental undifferentiation is transmitted to children. Usually the most vulnerable and unprotected child is the one targeted.
Family Projection Process