MFT Flashcards
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Concepts in this theory include, boundaries, hierarchy, subsystems, cross-generational coalition, and parentified child.
Structural Family Therapy
This theory believes that children’s problems are often related to the boundaries them and parents?
Structural Family Therapy
Where do the problems stem from in Structural Family Therapy?
Within the family structure
Who are the leaders of Structural Family Therapy?
Salvador Minuchin and Charles Fishman
What is a legacy?
All humans by virtue of being born to parents, have a legacy from interactions with them.
In Bowenian theory, what is an emotional cut-off?
A dramatic separation from family of origin may suggest an undifferentiated self.
In Bowenian theory, what is the multi-generational transmission process?
Rooted in the notion that all generations are part of a continuous natural process with each generation passing up it to the next.
In Bowenian theory, what is the family projection process?
Undifferentiated parents transmit their immaturity or lack of differentiation to their children through the family projection process.
In Bowenian theory, what is nuclear family process?
Groups of people who have interdependent emotional bonds that behave like a biological system.
How do triangles form?
Out of the anxiety of the two person system. As tensions mount the person who is feeling the most discomfort will triangulate a third person, shifting the tension to stabilize the relationship.
What is the hallmark of trans-generational models.
Emphasis on the powerful influences that past generations have on the past.
In Bowenian theory, the self that is more differentiated and is able to function based on a personally defined set of values, beliefs, conviction and life principles
Solid Self
In Bowenian theory, these individuals are ruled by their emotions. Their lives are centered around acceptance and being loved.
Poorly differentiated individuals.
In Bowenian theory, these individuals are able to react to the world rationally, and enter into relationship while balancing competing needs for belonging and individuality.
High differentiated individuals
Is differentiated how well one separates from their family of origins?
No
Rather than pathology, Bowenian theory focuses on what?
strengths
What is differentiation?
Lifelong process of striving to keep one’s balance through the reciprocal external and internal process of self-definition and self-regulation.
Where does transgenerational models get their theoretical roots?
Psychoanalytical and object relations
Why do symptoms develop in trans-generational models?
When the trans-generational phenomenon remains unconscious
From a generational perspective what best way to treat a systematic child?
Treat the parents
In Bowenian theory it is believed dysfunctional families fall along…
A continuum from emotional fusion to differentiation.
Who are the leaders of Strategic Therapy (MRI)?
John Weakland, Don Jackson, Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fisch
In this therapy, all messages have report and command functions, working with content is not helpful, look at the process
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, symptoms are messages, symptoms help the system survive.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, it is only a problem if the family describes it as such.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, you don’t need to examine psychodynamics to work on the problem.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, you need to perturb the system, difference that makes a difference.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, the family members often perpetuate the problems by their own actions (which are the attempted solutions)
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, the problem is the problem maintenance, positive feedback escalations.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In this therapy, directives tailored to the specific needs of a particular family can sometimes bring about sudden and decisive change.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is first order change? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
Family patterns of interaction or sequences are altered at the behavioral level. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is second order change?
The family rules or underlying beliefs or premises that govern family members’ behavior or promote specific reactions are altered. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is cybernetics? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
It is the study of how information processing systems are self-correcting, controlled by feedback loops. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What are negative feedback loops? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
Ways that families correct a deviation in family functioning so as to return to a previous state of homeostasis. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What are positive feedback loops? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
Arise as a family attempts to add new information into the system. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is reframing? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
Technique in which the therapist’ language and how he/she labels events gives new, often positive meaning to the situation. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is a paradoxical injunctions (or intervention)? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
An intervention that is built around a statement containing messages at different logical levels that contradict one another. It is used to perturb the system and generate change. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
What is a double bind? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
A six step concept in which an individual receives contradictory commands within an important emotional relationship. Strategic Therapy (MRI)
Who are the leaders of Strategic Therapy (Haley & Madanes)
Joe Haley and Cloe Madanes (influenced by Minuchin)
Who are the leaders of Milan Family Therapy?
Boscolo, Palazzoli, Prata and Cecchin
How are the problems maintained in Milian Family Therapy?
By the family’s attempt to fix it.
What are family games? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
A family’s patterns that maintain the problem. Milian Family Therapy?
In this therapy you need to disorganize and reorganize the system.
Structural Family Therapy
In this therapy you need to shape competence through enactments.
Structural Family Therapy
In this therapy you need to join and accommodate the system.
Structural Family Therapy
What is mapping the system? What therapeutic model does it belong to?
A structural family therapy assessment tool used to depict a family’s organization and gain an understanding of it’s complex structures and sequences. Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy do you need to modify interactions?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy do you need to unbalance?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy do you need to challenge assumptions?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy do you need to raise intensity?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy does the therapist need to perturb the system?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy does the therapist need to facilitate the restructuring?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being structural change?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being individuation of family members?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being change the patterns and realign the boundaries?
Structural Family Therapy
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being helping the family define clear and reachable goals?
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being breaking the pattern by perturbing the system
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being first and second order change, ideally second order change is something that we cannot make happen, it is spontaneous.
Strategic Therapy (MRI)
