Nagy, Contextual

Question 1

Contextual Family Therapy

Answer 1

Transgenerational
Nagy
Highly influenced by judge father

WHO?
HOW LONG? Long term
Insight, working through

RELIABILITY, TRUSTWORTHINESS

Relational ethics, fairness, ledger, exoneration, entitlement, merit

• Each person take responsibility and work through destructive entitlements
• Reclaim disowned parts of self - work through perceived legacies
• Differentiate guilt (irrational, rational)
• Exoneration of self and others
• Create fairness

Question 2

4 Dimensions of Individual & Relational Psychology

Answer 2

Nagy
Contextual

1) Facts - stable, physical qualities we are born with, contextual circumstances of upbringing (race, disability, divorce)
2) Psychology - Internal experience of the world through thoughts, desires, etc.
3) Transactions - how relationships function
4) Relational Ethics - responsibility of our actions on others, endorses consideration for best interest of family

Question 3

Loyalty

Answer 3

Nagy
Contextual

How responsible we feel toward our family.
Internalized expectations or obligations to F.O.O
-can influence the way we function

Question 4

Legacy

Answer 4

Nagy
Contextual

What is handed to us just because of the family we are born into - qualities.

Question 5

Entitlement

Answer 5

Nagy
Contextual

The things we perceive as being inherently due to us from family or that we earned.

Question 6

Ledger

Answer 6

Nagy
Contextual

How we keep track of debts and entitlements

Question 7

Contextual

Answer 7

Systemic impact of all impacted by therapy, social/political context w/in a family

Question 8

Equitable Asymmetry

Answer 8

Nagy
Contextual

Inherently there is a power differential in parent, child relationship - if parents are ethical to kids, they earn merit/loyalty. If not, kids are highly vulnerable and can lead to negative entitlements

Question 9

Merit

Answer 9

Nagy
Contextual

What parents earn when there is fair and ethical treatment of kids, leads to loyalty.

Question 10

Filial Loyalty

Answer 10

Nagy
Contextual

The inherently loyalty kids feel toward parents

Question 11

Split Filial Loyalty

Answer 11

Nagy
Contextual

When kids have to choose loyalty to one parent over the other.

Question 12

Revolving Slate of Injustice

Answer 12

Nagy
Contextual

Transgenerational transmission of issues that cause problems.

Question 13

Debts or Filial Responsibility

Answer 13

Nagy
Contextual

Result of how parents treated kids.

If ethical: filial responsibility, loyalty, merit
If not: debts, destructive entitlement

Question 14

Destructive Entitlement

Answer 14

Nagy
Contextual

When we are denied the things we need from our families, we seek it elsewhere - often from our family of creation.

Question 15

Parentification

Answer 15

Nagy
Contextual

Diff. than parentified! This is when kids feel need to caregive for parents to get love.

Question 16

Exoneration

Answer 16

Nagy
Contextual

When ledger is balanced

Question 17

Deparentification

Answer 17

Nagy
Contextual

When therapist takes on the role of parent to relieve child, when parents take responsibility of parental role

Question 18

Contextual: Assessment, Diagnosis

Answer 18

Nagy

Assessment: Family hx, would use genogram, looking for 4 dimensions of psychology, looking at resources, track TRUST, fairness, loyalty, reliability

Non-pathologizing

Question 19

Mutlidirectional Partiality

Answer 19

Contextual
Nagy

Neutrality, therapist is accountable to everyone. All interventions have to serve everyone.

Question 20

Contextual: Treatment Phases

Answer 20

Early: Family hx, genogram, ea. family member tells thier story. Get the facts, context. Look for hidden loyalties, ledger imbalances, destructive entitlements, parentification

Mid: Address urgent resource needs and violence. Take each side of family member as they tell their story. Shift the work to mutual insight, accountability to work toward exoneration

Late: Work toward more considerate treatment of each other, ethical, trust, fairness.