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Concepts in this theory include, boundaries, hierarchy, subsystems, cross-generational coalition, and parentified child.

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Structural Family Therapy

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This theory believes that children’s problems are often related to the boundaries them and parents?

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Structural Family Therapy

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Where do the problems stem from in Structural Family Therapy?

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Within the family structure

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Who are the leaders of Structural Family Therapy?

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Salvador Minuchin and Charles Fishman

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What is a legacy?

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All humans by virtue of being born to parents, have a legacy from interactions with them.

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In Bowenian theory, what is an emotional cut-off?

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A dramatic separation from family of origin may suggest an undifferentiated self.

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In Bowenian theory, what is the multi-generational transmission process?

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Rooted in the notion that all generations are part of a continuous natural process with each generation passing up it to the next.

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In Bowenian theory, what is the family projection process?

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Undifferentiated parents transmit their immaturity or lack of differentiation to their children through the family projection process.

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In Bowenian theory, what is nuclear family process?

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Groups of people who have interdependent emotional bonds that behave like a biological system.

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How do triangles form?

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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.

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What is the hallmark of trans-generational models.

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Emphasis on the powerful influences that past generations have on the past.

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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

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Solid Self

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In Bowenian theory, these individuals are ruled by their emotions. Their lives are centered around acceptance and being loved.

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Poorly differentiated individuals.

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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.

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High differentiated individuals

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Is differentiated how well one separates from their family of origins?

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No

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Rather than pathology, Bowenian theory focuses on what?

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strengths

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What is differentiation?

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Lifelong process of striving to keep one’s balance through the reciprocal external and internal process of self-definition and self-regulation.

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Where does transgenerational models get their theoretical roots?

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Psychoanalytical and object relations

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Why do symptoms develop in trans-generational models?

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When the trans-generational phenomenon remains unconscious

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From a generational perspective what best way to treat a systematic child?

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Treat the parents

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In Bowenian theory it is believed dysfunctional families fall along…

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A continuum from emotional fusion to differentiation.

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Who are the leaders of Strategic Therapy (MRI)?

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John Weakland, Don Jackson, Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fisch

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In this therapy, all messages have report and command functions, working with content is not helpful, look at the process

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, symptoms are messages, symptoms help the system survive.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, it is only a problem if the family describes it as such.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, you don’t need to examine psychodynamics to work on the problem.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, you need to perturb the system, difference that makes a difference.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, the family members often perpetuate the problems by their own actions (which are the attempted solutions)

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, the problem is the problem maintenance, positive feedback escalations.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In this therapy, directives tailored to the specific needs of a particular family can sometimes bring about sudden and decisive change.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What is first order change? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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Family patterns of interaction or sequences are altered at the behavioral level. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What is second order change?

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The family rules or underlying beliefs or premises that govern family members’ behavior or promote specific reactions are altered. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What is cybernetics? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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It is the study of how information processing systems are self-correcting, controlled by feedback loops. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What are negative feedback loops? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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Ways that families correct a deviation in family functioning so as to return to a previous state of homeostasis. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What are positive feedback loops? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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Arise as a family attempts to add new information into the system. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What is reframing? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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Technique in which the therapist’ language and how he/she labels events gives new, often positive meaning to the situation. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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What is a paradoxical injunctions (or intervention)? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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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)

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What is a double bind? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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A six step concept in which an individual receives contradictory commands within an important emotional relationship. Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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Who are the leaders of Strategic Therapy (Haley & Madanes)

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Joe Haley and Cloe Madanes (influenced by Minuchin)

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Who are the leaders of Milan Family Therapy?

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Boscolo, Palazzoli, Prata and Cecchin

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How are the problems maintained in Milian Family Therapy?

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By the family’s attempt to fix it.

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What are family games? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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A family’s patterns that maintain the problem. Milian Family Therapy?

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In this therapy you need to disorganize and reorganize the system.

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Structural Family Therapy

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In this therapy you need to shape competence through enactments.

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Structural Family Therapy

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In this therapy you need to join and accommodate the system.

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Structural Family Therapy

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What is mapping the system? What therapeutic model does it belong to?

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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

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In which therapy do you need to modify interactions?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy do you need to unbalance?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy do you need to challenge assumptions?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy do you need to raise intensity?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy does the therapist need to perturb the system?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy does the therapist need to facilitate the restructuring?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being structural change?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being individuation of family members?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being change the patterns and realign the boundaries?

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Structural Family Therapy

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In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being helping the family define clear and reachable goals?

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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In which therapy is one of the goals of therapy being breaking the pattern by perturbing the system

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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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.

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Strategic Therapy (MRI)

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