Structural Family Therapy
Techniques of Family Therapy
Bowen Family Systems
Concepts of Family Therapy
Solution Focused Family Therapy
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This term, upon which the theory is based, suggests that consistent patterns of family behavior provide a framework that brings order and meaning to transactions. This is known as the family's...
What is STRUCTURE
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This term is used by family therapists to help understand the interactions that occur between family members and how they relate to one another by inviting them to discuss their problems.
What is PROCESS
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In Bowenian therapy, this term is used to define the extent to which an individual has learned to manage his or her emotionality.
What is DIFFERENTIATION OF THE SELF
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BLANK is the study of methods of feedback control within a system, especially the flow of information through feedback loops.
What is CYBERNETICS
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The Miracle Question is designed to help the client focus on...
What are POSSIBILITIES IN THE CLIENT'S FUTURE
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Three constructs are the essential components of structural family therapy. They include:
What is STRUCTURE, SUBSYSTEMS, BOUNDARIES
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This phase of treatment is devoted to refining the initial hypothesis of what is maintaining the problem in a family and to begin the work of resolving it.
What is the EARLY PHASE OF TREATMENT
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In Bowenian theory, this emotion drives triangles in human relationships.
What is ANXIETY
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In order to understand how family systems operate, the therapist should look at both how family members interact as well as how the family is organized. This is known as...
What is PROCESS and STRUCTURE
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According to this theory, the development of behavioral disorders and engaging in exploring the etiology of issues is discouraged because this would be seen as engaging in...
What is PROBLEM TALK
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This term suggests family members must learn to bend and adapt to each other's needs and styles of interaction.
What is ACCOMODATION
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Intensity, challenge, fostering individual responsibility and mutual understanding is all part of this phase of family therapy treatment.
What is the MIDDLE PHASE OF TREATMENT
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This structural representation of a family system includes not only a portrait of family history but also includes relationship conflicts, cutoffs, and triangles.
What is a GENOGRAM
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The idea that our families are open structures and systems that provide us with interpretation and influence our assumptions as well as our culture is known as...
What is SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
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During the assessment phase of this therapy, this particular question is used to construct a more detailed description of the therapeutic goal. This line of questioning is known as...
What is SCALING
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This technique, used in the early phase of assessment in this theory, helps the therapist understand both the problem the family presents as well as the structural dynamics that it displays.
What is STRUCTURAL MAPPING
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This phase of the family assessment process is devoted to helping families move from linear and medical model thinking to a more interactional perspective.
What is THE PRESENTING PROBLEM
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The "magic bullet" or one essential technique in Bowenian theory is designed to slow people down, diminish their anxiety, and start them thinking. This technique is known as...
What is THE PROCESS QUESTION
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This concept helped change the way we think about psychopathology from something seen as caused by events in the past to something that is part of an ongoing feedback look.
What is CIRCULAR CAUSALITY
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This particular type of therapeutic phrasing and feedback call attention to the fact that the client(s) have already accomplished something. THis is known as...
What is COMPLIMENTING
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Subsystems are units of the family based on function. Subsystems are circumscribed and regulated by interpersonal boundaries. In healthy families, boundaries are clear enough to protect independent and permeable enough to allow support. Name the other two types of families and describe their boundaries.
What is: ENMESHED families have DIFFUSE boundaries DISENGAGED families have RIGID boundaries
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This document suggests that social workers should clarify with all parties in a couple or family system what professional obligations he or she has to the various individuals receiving services.
What is the NASW CODE OF ETHICS
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According to Bowenian theory, BLANK is the major problem in families while BLANK is the major goal of therapy.
What is EMOTIONAL FUSION and DIFFERENTIATION
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In family therapy, the idea that changes in one generation complicate adjustments in others is due to overall systems changes and adjustments that need to happen. This concept is better known as...
What is FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
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According to this theory, there are three types of clients. Name and give a brief description of ALL THREE types of clients.
What is CUSTOMER: have clear complaints and are ready to take action. COMPLAINANT: have clear complaints but they are usually about someone else. VISITOR: someone who's not really in the market for therapy but just there at someone else's insistence.
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