History of Couples & Family Counseling - Chapter 1

Question 1

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Answer 1

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Question 2

Describe Brief Therapy

Answer 2

A type of therapy that emphasizes identifying what potential solutions have been attempted, and then trying out new solutions.

Question 3

Describe circular reasoning

Answer 3

• involves asking each family member the same or similar question.
• helps to understand family dynamics

Question 4

Describe dual therapy - who devised it?

Answer 4

• Devised by Carl Whitaker

- another name for conjoint couple’s therapy

Question 5

What is Family Life Education?

Answer 5

• the study of family life - focuses on developmental and situational factors that affect family life.

Question 6

What is the internal family systems model?

Answer 6

• a model that considers both the individual psychic dynamics and family systems

Question 7

What does the term Interpersonal mean?

Answer 7

• between two or more people

Question 8

What does the term Intrapersonal mean?

Answer 8

• the thoughts, feelings, and processes within a person

Question 9

Describe the National Mental Health Act of 1946

Answer 9

• a law that allocated money to states so they could find the most effective methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for mental health disorders.

Question 10

Describe the concept of “new epistemology”

Answer 10

• This is the concept that second-order cybernetics should be applied in family therapy. In this way, the therapist helps the family system create needed rule changes.

Question 11

Define ontology

Answer 11

• one’s worldview

Question 12

What is psychoeducation?

Answer 12

• providing education to clients in the form of books, worksheets, workshops, audio material, etc.

Question 13

Describe the reflecting team approach.

Answer 13

• an approach to family therapy where observers watch a therapy session from behind a one-way mirror.
• after the session, the observers discuss their impressions with the therapist and family.

Question 14

Define schism

Answer 14

the division of a family into two antagonistic, competing groups.

Question 15

Define skew (marital skew)

Answer 15

A dysfunctional marriage where one partner dominates the other.

Question 16

Describe the concept of social constructionism.

Answer 16

• a philosophy that says experiences are subjective and are shaped by one’s culture and environment; it challenges the existence of objective knowledge and absolute truth.

Question 17

Describe systems theory

Answer 17

• a theory that focuses on the interconnectedness of the members of living things, including families.

Question 18

What is the therapeutic conversations model of family therapy?

Answer 18

• a postmodern therapeutic approach where the therapist relates to the couple/family in an egalitarian partnership.

Question 19

Define “undifferentiated family ego mass”

Answer 19

• an emotional fusion within a family.

Question 20

Define Double-bind theory

Answer 20

a theory that says that two seemingly contradictory messages may cause confusion and possibly even schizophrenic behavior in some people.

Question 21

Define Mystification

Answer 21

• a way that some families mask what is going on between family members by giving conflicting and contradictory explanations of events.