Objective Facts Flashcards
Classical Schools
MRI Model Strategic Family Therapy Milan Systemic Structural Family Therapy Experiential Family Therapy Emotionally Focused Therapy Psycho-Educational Internal Family Systems
Constructivist Models (Post-Modernism)
Solution-Focused Therapy
Narrative Family Therapy
Collaborative Family Therapy
CBT -Family Therapy
Transgenerational models
Bowenian Family Therapy
Contextual Family Therapy
Object-Relations Theory
Similarities of Strategic and Milan
Counselor aligns with parents
Hierarchy and structure very important
Unbalancing - structural therapy
Classical Schools Beginning
Classical Schools of Family Therapy. These were the first models developed from the ground up exclusively for families, promoting the practice of Marriage & Family Therapy as a distinct field of study.
Differences between 3 systemic schools and structural:
3 systemic
Structural
3 experiential approaches:
Symbolic-Experiential
(Witaker)
Satir
Emotionally Focused
~Humanistic psychology
~ healthy of individual promotes a healthy family system
~ symptoms develop from emotional suppression within fam system
~ responsibility to change was completely on clients… Very different from MRI where responsibility of counselor
Post-Modern Therapy
Post-Modern domain of Marital & Family Therapy. Given its focus on the subjective, lived reality of each individual and guiding therapy in a way that promotes new ways of interpreting experience—both individually and collectively—concepts of Social Constructivism flow throughout this approach to therapy.
Partner Violence
If partner violence is current and ongoing then partners should not be seen for conjoint therapy until Abuse has ended. They should do separate group therapy until Abuse stops.
Chemical and alcohol dependence:
If chemical or alcohol dependency is an issue then family therapy is appropriate cocurrently with having the person addicted go to an addiction program/group.
History of MFT:
History of MFT
Marital Schism: The parents are overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage, the individuals, and the children.
*Theodore Lidz
Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family, and the other is dependent.
*Theodore Lidz
Pseudomutuality:Describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy.
*Lyman Wynne
Pseudohostility: A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits.
*Lyman Wynne
Rubber-Fence Boundary: The families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from outside systems.
*Lyman Wynne
Tickling the Defenses: This denoted his famous phrase for teasing, provoking, and stimulating members of the family to open up and say what is really on their minds.
*Nathan Ackerman