Theories and Models Flashcards
A theory may explain human behavior by describing how humans interact with each other or react to certain stimuli
Developmental theory
A whole comprising component parts that work together. It views human behavior through larger contexts, such as members of families, communities, and broader society
System Theory
This theory provides a theoretical and therapeutic base for dealing with family-related situations, and it’s useful in understanding and managing individual problems by determining the extent to which problems are related to family issues
Family theory
This approach argues that to understand a family system, a social worker must look at the family as a whole, rather than focusing on its members. It searches for the causes of behavior in the interactions among the members of a group
Family systems approach
The concept of BLANK refers to the ability of the family system to accomplish the same goals through different routes
Equifinality
The concept of hierarchies described how families organize themselves into various smaller units or BLANK that are comprised by the larger family system
Subsystems
BLANK occurs at every level of family system and between subsystem, and it influences the movement of people and the flow of information into and out of the system.
Boundaries
A social worker initiates what happens during therapy, designs a specific approach for each person’s presenting problem, and takes responsibility for directly influencing people. It’s active, brief, directive, and task-centered. What family theory is this?
Strategic Family Therapy
What strategic family therapy technique/concept encourages family members to “pretend” and encourage voluntary control of behavior?
Pretend technique
What strategic family therapy technique/concept refers to superficial behavioral changes within a system that do not change the structure of the system?
First-Order Changes
What strategic family therapy technique/concept refers to changes to the systematic interaction pattern so the system is reorganized and functions more effectively?
Second-order changes
What strategic family therapy technique/concept refers to families tend to preserve familiar organization and communication patterns; resistant to change?
Family homeostasis
What strategic family therapy technique/concept refers to changing the label attached to a person or problem from negative to positive so the situation can be perceived differently; and hoped that new responses will evolve?
Relabeling
What strategic family therapy technique/concept prescribe the symptomatic behavior so a client realizes he or she can control it; uses the strength of the resistance to change to move a client toward goals?
Paradoxical directive or instruction
This family approach stresses the importance of family organization for the functioning of the group and the well-being of its members. The social worker “joins” (engages) the family in an effort to restructure it.
Structural family therapy
BLANK boundaries define individual family members and promote their differentiation and autonomous, yet interdependent, functioning.
Interpersonal
Restructuring is based on observing and manipulating interactions within therapy sessions, often by BLANK as a way to understand and diagnose the structure
Enactment of situations
This family therapy focuses on improving the intergenerational transmission process rather than symptom reduction.
Boweniam family therapy
What are the eight major theoretical constructs under Bowenian family therapy?
- Differentiation
- Emotional fusion
- Multigenerational transmission
- Emotional triangle
- Nuclear family
- Societal regression
- Family projection
- Sibling position
This theoretical constructs under Bowen’s theory can be used to explain societal anxieties, and social problems, because Bowen viewed society as a family - an emotional complete with its own multigenerational transmission, chronic anxiety, emotional triangles, cutoff, projection processes, and so on.
Societal regression
This theoretical constructs under Bowen’s theory is a factor in determining personality. Where a client is in birth order has an influence on how he orbshe relates to parents and siblings.
Sibling position
This theoretical constructs under Bowen’s theory is the most basic unit in the society and there is a concern over the degree to which emotional fusion can occur in a family system.
Nuclear family
This theoretical constructs under Bowen’s theory is the network of relationships among three people.
Emotional triangle
This theoretical constructs under Bowen’s theory stresses the connection of current generations to past generations as a natural process. It gives the present a context in history.
Multigenerational transmission
