Communication Styles
Affect and behavior are consistent
Congruent
The father, mother and child
The Primary Family Triad
Family member who functions worst or is "different"
Black Sheep
How does treatment proceed
Engagement, involvement, disentanglement
Theory
Outwardly in constant motion, inwardly alienated
Distractor
Victim of the larger family system
White Knight
Role of the therapist
Enhance creativity and provide general support.
The goal is to detect and express emotion
Therapy
"We are here because of your issues".
Blamer
Awareness and acceptance of individual tendencies and unexpressed emotions
Parts Party
Allowing to tease or fight with therapist
treating children like children and not peers
Cultivating regression through exposing clients to anxiety inherent in provocative and evocative experiences
Produces change
Renovation
"I could have told you that, it was obvious something bad would happen".
Like a genogram, but using real people
Family Reconstruction
Therapist insist the family members assume responsibilities
Battle for initiative
Families continue to suppress emotion and deny impulses
Persisting problems
Family assumes physical posture associated with various communication stances, and then shifts postures based on emotion
Family stress ballet
Sculpted as kneeling in supplication
Reflects Satir's farm background in which as cast iron pot served various purposes, from making soup to storing manure.
Metaphor
Remarking offhandedly to a husband whose wife is having headaches that spanking her will improve symptoms
Improve emotional and behavioral congruence, enhance independence, expand emotions
Whittaker's objectives in therapy
Having clients consider imaginary alternatives to actual violence or inappropriate sexual behavior
Modeling fantasy alternatives