To use this intervention, a therapist might place himself/herself between two members of an enmeshed dyad.
What is blocking?
100
One of the reasons teens rebel, this is when a teenage has learned that they can get away with what they want by intimidation and begin to find pleasure in defiance.
What is drunk with power?
100
This plan involves using the my way or the highway approach.
What is Plan A?
100
An approach to therapy that highlights triangulation, differentiation, and the undifferentiated family ego mass in working with families.
What is Bowenian Therapy?
100
In this episode of the Start Wars sage, Darth Vadar is revealed to be Luke's father.
What is The Empire Strikes Back?
200
A possible relational arrangement in which there is a great deal of psychological distance between two members of a family.
What is disengagement?
200
The letter written at the beginning of a teenager's stay in a residential treatment program.
What is an accountability letter?
200
The first step of the collaborative problem solving model.
What is Empathy?
200
The process by which an EFT therapist will focus on one particular underlying emotion of one member of the dyad in an effort to accentuate the emotion to the point it break through the other partners inability to hear it.
What is heightening?
200
The person who shot first in the cantina scene in Episode IV: A New Hope.
Who is Han Solo?
300
Inspired by photography, this intervention upon the therapist honing in specific aspect of isomorphic transactions within the family system.
What is focus?
300
Occurs when teens are separated from families and space is created, while also slowing down the speed of interactions.
What is differentiation?
300
The behaviors in this category are those that the parent will let go of and no longer worry at this time.
What is Plan C?
300
The theory developed early in the history of marriage and family therapy that describes the now debunked phenomenon by which schizophrenia is caused by dysfunctional interactions with the family matriarch.
What is schizophrenegenic mother?
300
The man who said to Luke "So what I told you was true... from a certain point of view."
Who is Obi-Wan Kenobi?
400
In this specific type of paradox, structural family therapists will recommend something that they hope the family will do the opposite of.
What is defiance based?
400
When a teen is separated from the group during wilderness therapy for up to three days to provide an opportunity for reflection and increased autonomy.
What are solo experiences?
400
Used in the step of empathy to get to the bottom of the child's concern.
What is drilling?
400
This mechanism of family systems provides information to the system that allows it to return to some preset level and reduces deviation from the norm.
What is a negative feedback loop?
400
This falls down into the trap in Jabba's palace with Luke in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
What is a Gamorrean Guard?
500
The process by which the therapist inserts his/her personality into the therapeutic process?
What is therapist use of self?
500
Typified by the therapy parents receive at home while their child is in residential treatment, this is the concurrent with the changes in the child in residential treatment.
What is the parallel process?
500
When a parent makes the assumption that they know what the child's problem is.
What is adult ingenuity?
500
A person who comes to family therapy with the attitude that they are not part of the problem or the solution, but are willing to support those who they deem to be such.