Theories of Psychotherapy

Question 1

Lead Figure: Murray Bowen

Answer 1

Extended Family Systems

Question 2

Lead Figure: Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker

Answer 2

Experiential/Communication

Question 3

Lead Figure: Salvador Minuchin

Answer 3

Structural Family Therapy

Question 4

Lead Figure: Haley, MRI, Madanes

Answer 4

Strategic Family Therapy

Question 5

Lead Figure: Michael White, David Epston

Answer 5

Narrative Therapy (Post-Modern)

Question 6

Lead Figure: Bateson, Jackson, Erickson, Weakland, de Shazer, Berg

Answer 6

Solution-Focused Therapy (Post-Modern)

Question 7

Lead Figure: Freud, Jung

Answer 7

Psychodynamic

Question 8

Lead Figure: Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck

Answer 8

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Question 9

Lead Figure: Gestalt

Answer 9

Humanistic

Question 10

Relationships are characterized by a struggle for power to see who will define or redefine the relationship. Focus of therapy is on alleviating current symptoms through altering a family’s transactions and organization. Paradoxical interventions

Answer 10

Strategic Family Therapy

Question 11

If you change the organization of the family, then the family’s symptoms will be alleviated; change boundaries

Answer 11

Structural Family Therapy

Question 12

human behavior motivated by unconscious processes. Early development has an impact on adult functioning. Insight into unconscious processes - key component to therapy.

Answer 12

Psychodynamic

Question 13

Growth occurs when each individual assumes personal responsibility for his/her own thoughts, feelings, and actions - living as an integrated “whole”

Answer 13

Gestalt (Humanistic)