week 3 ch 9

Question 1

Experiential Model: Factors that influence human development: unchangeable

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genetic endowment, determining our physical, emotional, and temperamental potential

Question 2

Experiential Model: Factors that influence human development:

Answer 2

longitudinal influences, the result of learning acquired in the process of growth

Question 3

Experiential Model: Factors that influence human development: the constant

Answer 3

mind-body interaction

Question 4

Assumptions of Satir’s Experiential Model: People tend toward

Answer 4

People tend toward positive growth

Question 5

Assumptions of Satir’s Experiential Model: All people possess

Answer 5

All people possess the resources for positive growth

Question 6

Assumptions of Satir’s Experiential Model: impacts

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Everything impacts and is impacted by everything else.

Question 7

Assumptions of Satir’s Experiential Model: Therapy is a process involving

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Therapy is a process involving interaction between therapist and client

Question 8

Assumptions of Satir’s Experiential Model: responsible

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Each person is responsible for him/herself

Question 9

Satir’s Eight Aspects of the Self:

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Physical 
Intellectual
Emotional
Sensual 
Interactional
Contextual
Nutritional
Spiritual

Question 10

THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP:

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Therapeutic “presence” 
Making emotional contact 
Being empathetic 
Conveying hope 
Establishing trust

Question 11

SATIR’S COMMUNICATION STYLES:

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CONGRUENT  
PLACATOR 
BLAMER 
SUPER-REASONABLE 
IRRELEVANT

Question 12

The Task of the Therapist is to

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reengage with topic without using previous communication styles in order to increase the family’s ability to use congruent communication

Question 13

Satir wants to clarify each member’s expectation about therapy & tries to help the family members: recognize individual

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differences among them by having each member speak for himself or herself

Question 14

Satir wants to clarify each member’s expectation about therapy & tries to help the family members: accept

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disagreements and differing perceptions of the same situation; and most important

Question 15

Satir wants to clarify each member’s expectation about therapy & tries to help the family members: say

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what they see, think, and feel in order to bring disagreements out into the open

Question 16

Satir compiled a Family Life Fact Chronology to understand the

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history of the family’s development by depicting key elements in its evolution, beginning with the birth of the oldest grandparents

Question 17

Satir’s GOAL was to force family members to think about

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characteristic family patterns and especially about the relevant concepts that had formed the basis for their developing relationships.

Question 18

Satir’s Model of Change: phases

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PHASE I: Contact
PHASE II: Chaos
PHASE III: Integration

Question 19

Satir’s INTERVENTIONS

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Therapist’s “use of self” & “active presence”
Ingredients of an Interaction 
Facilitating Emotional Expression
Softening Family Rules
Communication Enhancement
Touch…
Family Reconstruction

Question 20

Satir’s INTERVENTIONS: Family Reconstruction

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Guides clients to break dysfunctional patterns that stem from their families of origin

Question 21

Goals of Family Reconstruction: to reveal to family members the

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source of their old learning

Question 22

Goals of Family Reconstruction: to enable them to develop a more realistic picture of

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the personhood of their parents

Question 23

Goals of Family Reconstruction: to pave the way for members to find their own

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person-hood. The technique is said to be especially useful for dealing with family issues when there is little or no access to the real family of origin

Question 24

Satir looked at the communication styles of the individual and the family using

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warmth & empathy to assist in reconstructing the family.

Question 25

Satir combined ideas from ___ and ___ theories

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systemic and humanistic