Marriage and Family Counseling Flashcards
Grandfather of family therapy
Ackerman
When one thing follows another
Linear Model
another person a child wants to bond with to meet needs
Object (object-relations)
Incorporating parent attitudes as your own
Parental Introject
when a young child turns an object into either all good or all bad and internalizes that perception
Splitting
Responisible for Conjoint Family Therapy
Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir’s 4 patterns of dysfunctional communication
Placater- tries to please everyone
Blamer- insists its everyone else’s fault
Super reasonable analyzer- calm, collected
Deflecter- removed and irrelevant
each family member sees a different therapist and those therapists convene
Collaborative Therapy
One counselor sees each member individually
Concurrent Family Therapy
Neighbors, colleagues, friends brought into therapy
Network Family Therapy
Resembles group therapy made up of several couples or families
Multiple Family/Couples Approach
interacting in ways that keep things in balance, but
Families resist change
Homeostasis
No win, damned if you do, damned it you don’t message from someone
Double Bind Hypothesis
similar outcomes can occur in the family from different origins (achieve similar goals in different ways)
Equafinality
same processes can produce different results
Equapotentiality