Intervention Processes and Techniques

Question 1

Principles of Observation

Question 2

Complete participant

Answer 2

living the experience as a participant

Question 3

participant as observer

Answer 3

interacting with those who are participating

Question 4

Observer as participant

Answer 4

limited relationship with others; participating - primarily observer

Question 5

complete observer

Answer 5

removed from activity - observer only

Question 6

Strategic family therapy

Answer 6

-Roots in structural family therapy
-interested in creating change in behaviour rather than change in understanding
-based on assumption that families are flexible enough to modify solutions that don’t work and adjust or develop
-assumption that all problems have multiple origins
-SWer task is to formulate problem in solvable, behavioural terms and to design an intervention plan to change dysfunctional family pattern

Question 7

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 7

-Stresses the importance of family organization for the functioning of the group and well being of its members
-family structure is defined as invisible set of functional demands organizing interaction among family members

Question 8

Bowenian Family Therapy

Answer 8

-goal isn’t symptom reduction rather improving intergenerational transmission process

Question 9

Bowenian Family Constructs

Question 10

Differentiation

Answer 10

core concept; more differentiated, the more a client can be an individual while in emotional contact with the family. This allows a client to think through a situation without being drawn to act by either internal or external emotional pressures

Question 11

emotional fusion

Answer 11

counterpart of differentiation and refers to the tendency for family members to share an emotional response ; in a fused family, there is little room for emotional autonomy

Question 12

emotional triangle

Answer 12

network of relationships among 3 people. Bowen’s theory states that a relationship can remain stable until anxiety is introduced. When anxiety is introduced into dyads, a 3rd party is recruited into a triangle to reduce overall anxiety. Impossible for two people to interact without triangulation

Question 13

family projection process

Answer 13

describes primary way for parents to transmit their emotional problems to children. Projection process can impair child functioning and increase vulnerability to clinical symptoms

Question 14

societal regression

Answer 14

manifested by problems such as depletion of nature resources