Important names Flashcards
Carl Whittaker
Battle for structure and initiative
Adler
Psychological problems are influenced by social context in which they occurred
Nagy
contextual therapy and “ledger” frameworks
Bowen
Differentiation of self
David Epston
Cofounded narrative therapy
Shazer
Solution focused-therapy
Ackerman
father of family therapy
Weakland
co-founded both palo alto group and MRI
Milton Erikson
pioneered use of client resistance to therapeutic advantage
Insoo Berg
cofounded solution focused therapy
Dreikurs
founded family counseling centers
Goolishian
collaborative language systems
Harlene Anderson
collaborative language systems (too)
Shwartz
Internal family systems
Bertalanffy
Father of general systems theory
Grinder & Bandler
Neuro-linguistic programming
Jay Haley
MRI AND strategic therapy
Bateson
Palo alto group and use of cybernetics
Carl Jung
Archetypes of personality
Gottman
Four horsemen and love maps
Kurt Lewin
filed theory- the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Erik Erikson
psychosocial stages and developmental tasks
Lyman Wynne
pseudomutuality and pseudohostility
Sigmund Freud
psyhoananlytic theory
Maslow
hierarchy of needs
Don Jackson
mental research institute founder (MRI)
Minuchin
Structural family therapy
Emily Mudd
founded AAMFT
John Bell
pioneered family group therapy
Palazzoli
MILAN systemic family therapy
Paterson
Behavioral parent training
Carl Rogers
unconditional positive regard, conditions of worth, and sense of self
Virgina Satir
Human validation process model
Skinner
Operant conditioning
Michael White
Narrative therapy
Extended Bowen model by adding, displacement story: technique to help family members gain sufficient emotional distance from their problems and to become more self reflective and less blaming
i.e. discussing another couple with the same story
Philip Guerin
Also extended the Bowenian model to include the role that ethnicity plays in families; researched and wrote about family life cycles
Monica McGoldrick
This person was from the Tavistock institute in England and studied groups; found that predictable properties emerge out of group’s dynamics
Wilfred Bion
This person in the 1940’s created psychodrama- which was a combination of group therapy and theatrical techniques
Jacob Moreno