Siblings

Question 1

True or false. All individuals belong to more than one subsystem.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Types of Siblings

Answer 2

Most Common:
1. Full Siblings
2. Half Siblings
3. Step Siblings
Others:
1. Suckled at the same breast
2. Irish twins
3. Godsiblings
4. Foster Siblings

Question 3

Siblings are influenced by many of the following:

Answer 3

Biology 
Temperament
Development
Age differences
Birth order
Gender
Race/ethnicity 
Larger systems
Parenting Behaviors
Family Conflict
Parental Favoritism 
Culture

Question 4

Typical Sibling Roles

Answer 4

Hero
Scapegoat 
Motivators 
Mascot: Buddies
Lost
Parentified Child

Question 5

Reframe: First step to enactments

Answer 5

Identify Frame of Reference 
Identify Behaviors to Reframe 
Collect Facts
Create a Context for Acceptance 
Create a Reframe
Respond to Feedback
Get commitment to Reframe

Question 6

Contextual Reframes

Answer 6

Identify the Complaint
Identify “In what contexts would the characteristic being complained about have value and/or usefulness”?
Create several answer to this question

Question 7

Meaning Reframes: behaviors from a Contextual Perspective…

Answer 7

Serve a purpose in maintaining the system/pattern
Have value in the context of relationships
Have facts/data based on relationships
Have relevance based on the relationships

Question 8

Circular Questioning is often used to…

Answer 8

Introduce the family to a systematic view of themselves and provide new information about concerns, beliefs, behaviors. And relationships

Develop, confirm, or deny the team’s hypothesis about the family and the function of the problem.

Question 9

Four types of circular questions

Answer 9

Linking Relationships
Ranking Order
Difference over time
Directed about a person who does not answer questions

Question 10

Ways to create differences

Answer 10

Over time
Between people
Between parts of a person
Between situations

Question 11

Ways to create connections

Answer 11

Affect: feelings
Behaviors 
Beliefs
Meaning
Relationships