People
One of the founders of family therapy, reported that he could not fit old theories and traditional individual therapy concepts into his new experiences and had to find rationale from own experiences and reflections
John Elderkin Bell
Occurs when husband and wife fail to accommodate and consistently attack each other for children's affections
Marital Schism
When there is skepticism that spirituality can influence mental health, the recommendations are:
Seek opportunities to learn about the integration of science and spirituality
Therapists need to be cognizant and respectful of clients with different points of view, and in the case of _____ different expressions of attachment
Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT))
The use of _______ often makes the therapist’s comments easier to accept.
Humor
______ was a daring and innovative clinician who promoted the open and honest expression of feelings and the confrontation of issues within the family. He was known for his use of wit and charisma to enable families to develop new ways of relating;
Nathan Ackerman
is a model or conceptual scheme through which people make sense of such things as “reality” or “the world.”
paradigm
When you think of living in America versus the country of your heritage, what are the main differences? This is use when
Assessing cultural factors or background
Access the unacknowledged feelings underlying interactional positions is a step in this manual
Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) step by step treatment manual
Within a family system are smaller, self-contained, but interrelated _______?
subsystem
In addition to being one of the founders of the strategic school of family therapy, ____ served equally important roles as both a promoter and synthesizer of the ideas in family therapy and a critic of the mental health establishment.
Jay Haley
is a set of elements standing in interaction. Each element is affected by whatever happens to any other element.
System
Being aware of their own cultural values, beliefs, and biases that are based on their own and their clients’ cultural backgrounds, is an example of?
Cultural Competence
Views families and emotional distress from an organizational perspective: Individual problems are maintained not through personal pathology, but rather through flaws in a family’s organizational design.
Structural Family Therapy
Abstract or physical dividers between or among systems and subsystems. Also defines who is part of and who is not part of a particular system.
Boundaries
_______ a social worker, was known for her unparalleled clinical intuition and capacity to see the unlimited potential that exists within all families. She is considered by many to be the founding mother of family therapy.
Virginia Satir
is the process in which family therapists let their clients know that they understand them and are working to help them
Joining
What does the acronym P.U.S.H. stand for?
Protection, Unit, Sequences of Interaction, and Hierarchy
According to Whitaker’s Symbolic-Experiential Approach what are the four stages of therapy?
Pretreatment or engagement phase, middle phase, late phase, separation phase
Individuals outside of one’s biological family that one chooses to also consider family.
Family of Choice
In 1951, ______ began hospitalizing children with schizophrenia and their mothers at the Menninger Clinic, hoping to observe and eventually treat this phenomenon.
Murray Bowen
overgeneralization is a __________ in which the individual observes one instance of an event and views it as representing a general characteristic.
Cognitive distortion
Four major movements that influenced the creation of family and marriage therapy?
Early Social Work, Sexual Reform Movement, Marriage Counseling and The Family Therapy Movement
______ directs the client’s attention away from the presenting problem and toward the absence of that problem
Solution-focused and solution-oriented, or possibility therapy
A reciprocal sequence of events whereby one event modifies another event, which in turn modifies another event, which eventually modifies the original event.
Circular causality