Midterm Flashcards
This therapy focuses on the interconnectedness of family members and the importance of second-order change in the family.
Systemic Family Therapy
What therapy’s techniques?
- Rituals
- Hypothesis
- Invariant prescriptions (parents unite so child cannot manipulate)
Systemic Family Therapy techniques
This theory emphasizes the importance of historical, social and childhood experiences and unconscious forces. Uncovering and interpreting unconscious impulses and defenses.
Psychodynamic Family Therapy
This theory tries to free family members from the power of unconscious constraints so they can relate in a healthy way and to let go and allow family members to become more independent.
Psychodynamic Family Therapy
This therapy nudges the living systems that help develop new patterns, taking on a new organizational structure that allows growth.
Systemic Family Therapy
What are the techniques of Psychodynamic Family Therapy?
- Transference
- Dream analysis
- Confrontation
- Strengths & growths
- Life history (therapist points out families present and past patterns of interacting)
- Complementarity (the degree of harmony or reciprocity in the meshing of family roles)
- Interpretation (bringing unconscious conflicts between members into consciousness)
This therapy works with intergenerational or multigenerational family systems to help develop a nuclear family emotional system. (away from a fused situation and dysfunctional behaviors)
Bowenian Family Therapy
This theory focuses on the balance of two forces: togetherness and individuality. Too much togetherness creates fusion and prevents individuality, or developing one’s own sense of self. Too much individuality results in a distant and estranged family.
Bowenian Family Therapy
Techniques of Bowen Family Therapy (6)
- Assertiveness training
- Building healthier family boundaries
- Enhance communication skills
- Enhance healthy coping skills
- Help increase individuals degree of self-differentitation
- De-triangulate (separate feeling from their thinking)
This theory focuses on the present and finds solutions to the problems. Find what works and use more of it. Don’t fix what is not broken.
Solution-Focused Family Therapy
Techniques of Solution Focused Family Therapy (10)
- Normalize feelings
- Miracle question
- Scaling questions
- Focus on exceptions
- Compliment
- Find solutions
- Make a plan of action
- Plant seeds of success
- Clue
- Skeleton key (helps families unlock problems)
This therapy seeks to resolve, remove or ameliorate the specific problem the family agreed to work on. Symptoms are system maintained and maintain the system. (shorter therapy)
Strategic Family Therapy
What therapy’s techniques?
-Redundancy principle (family interacts within a limited range of repetitive behavioral sequences)
Strategic Family Therapy
This theory works to find a change in the family’s organization or structure that must take place before symptoms can be relieved. Cognitive therapy looking at the structure of the problems.
Structural Family Therapy
This therapy tries to move the family toward healthy, open, clear and interchangeable boundaries within the family system. (enmeshed and disengaged boundaries are unhealthy)
Structural Family therapy
What therapy’s technique?
-Accommodation (make personal adjustments to achieve therapeutic alliance)
Structural Family Therapy
This therapy looks at the exchange or communication between two people to determine what was said and why by using the ego state model (‘parent-adult-child).
Transactional Analysis and Family Therapy
This theory describes how people are structured psychologically. It uses the ego-state (Parent-Adult-Child) model, to do this. The same model helps explain how people function and express their personality in their behavior.
TA Family Therapy
