Basic Skills
A therapist's ability to deeply understand and share a client’s emotional experience while maintaining professional boundaries
What is Empathy
This theory believes symptoms are the byproducts of structural imbalances in family interactions. "Patterns are the problem not the individual".
What is Structural Family Therapy
A graphic of a family that includes information about history, relationships, psychology, and patterns.
What is a genogram
Invisible set of functional demands that persistently organize family interactions.
What are Rules
His theory is named after him.
Who is Murray Bowen
Creating a therapeutic alliance with the family. This relationship involves mutual respect and consideration.
What is Joining
Two central variables in this theory are chronic anxiety and differentiation of self
What is Bowen Family Therapy
The therapist asks the same question to multiple family members to illustrate various perspectives of the same issue or problem.
What is circular questioning
A form of manipulation in which family members are pitted against one another. Hint:
What is triangulation
Founder of Strategic Family Therapy
Who is Jay Haley
The therapist will present the family’s challenges or complaints in a different perspective
What is a Reframe
Model focuses on ethical accountability, “invisible loyalties”, relational fairness, and trust across generations.
What is Contextual Family Therapy
Observations or role plays of what occurred and what was said at home.
What are enactments
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
What a person believes they are owed.
View of continued harmful, abusive, or irresponsible behaviors, is justified because they were mistreated, cheated, or neglected.
What are Entitlements and Destructive Entitlements
Prominent figures in Experiential Therapy
Who are Carl Whitaker and Virginia Satir
Communication skill that acknowledges a family member’s emotions as understandable without necessarily agreeing with their actions
What is Validation
a psychoanalytic theory which helps individuals uncover early mental images that may contribute to any present difficulties in one’s relationships with others
What is Object Relations Therapy
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
1. Therapist suggests doing the opposite of what client is attempting to change by prescribing more. (compared to reverse psychology)
2. Therapist amplifies or validates more of the same behaviors to maintain family stability.
What is Paradox and Counter Paradox
We internalize a negative feeling (shame, unlovable) and externalize it, putting it on someone else
What is Projection
This couple started this theory around the 1960s; both were psychoanalyst who were known for the concept of "splitting".
Bonus: 100pts. What theory
Who are Jill and David Scharff, Object Relations
A technique where the therapist frames a family's struggles as common and expected rather than pathological
What is normalizing
this therapy implements a category of therapeutic techniques in which expressive tools and activities—such as role-playing or acting, props, arts and crafts, music, etc. to allow clients to re-enact and re-experience emotional situations from their past or their relationships.
What is Experiential Therapy
The role of the therapist is to be an "interpreter of the unconscious. My making the _______ , _______. Bonus
$100 What theory
What is implicit, explicit, Object Relations
A family member takes on all of the emotional responsibility for the family system. Can be viewed at "the problem".
What is scapegoating
Believed that the more members of a family participate, including extended family members, in some cases, the better the outcome of the treatment would be.
Bonus 100pts. What theory
Who is Salvador Minuchin, Structural Family Therapy