Narrative
EFT
Solution Focused
Structural
Miscellaneous
100
Assigning the fault of the issue to a factor other than an individual or family. Locating the problem outside the individual and within the culture.
What is externalization?
100
An emotion that results from experiencing another emotion.
What is a secondary emotion?
100
A question to aid a family in understanding their goals.
What is the miracle question?
100
Patterns of transactions that assure the stability of the system.
What is homeostasis?
200
Reconstructing of previously negative narratives. Who told you "real men" dont pay attention to their health?
What is deconstruction?
200
"I want to be completely emotionally intimate with others, but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others don't value me as much as I value them."
What is anxious attachment?
200
From 0-10 or from 1-10, where 0 means when the initial appointment was arranged and 10 means the day after the miracle, where are things now?
What is scaling?
200
The actualization of transactional patterns under the control of the therapist. This technique allows the therapist to observe how family members mutually regulate their behaviors and to determine the place of the problem behavior within the sequence of transactions.
What is enactment?
200
(1) recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed. (2) recurrent distressing dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content. (3) acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur upon awakening or when intoxicated). Note: In young children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur. (4) intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event. (5) physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event. C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the trauma), as indicated by three (or more) of the following: (1) efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma (2) efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the trauma (3) inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma (4) markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities (5) feeling of detachment or estrangement from others (6) restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have loving feelings) (7) sense of a foreshortened future (e.g., does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span) D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as indicated by two (or more) of the following: (1) difficulty falling or staying asleep (2) irritability or outbursts of anger (3) difficulty concentrating (4) hypervigilance (5) exaggerated startle response E. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more than one month. F. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
What is PTSD?
300
Acknowledging events, memories, actions, or thoughts that contradict the current negative narrative of the client or family.
What is seeking unique outcomes?
300
A way of mirroring a client's feelings so that other family members can hear that person's feelings from a new angle.
What is reflective listening?
300
What changes have you noticed that have happened or started to happen since you called to make the appointment for this session?
What is pre-session change?
300
Magnifying something that the family ignores or takes for granted as another way of challenging the reality of the system.
What is "intensifying"
300
Being more upset than would normally be expected being unable to deal with things at work, at school, etc feeling sad or hopeless. Not feeling pleasure in things that used to interest you developing symptoms within 3 months of a stressful event that don't last longer than 6 months after the end of the stressor or its consequences.
What is adjustment disorder with depressed mood?
400
"What would you call this problem of..."
What is renaming?
400
"I am comfortable without close emotional relationships; It is very important to me to feel independent and self-sufficient; I prefer not to depend on others or have others depend on me."
What is avoidant attachment?
400
Listening attentively for talk about previous solutions, exception and goals.
What is constructing solutions and exceptions
400
The "coupling" that occurs between the therapist and the family.
What is joining?
400
When a client identifies and commits to change.
What is getting a buy-in?
500
An oppressive concept imposed on an individual by individual of power such as parent or teachers.
What is a thin description?
500
Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, Stonewalling
What are the four horsemen?
500
How have you managed to prevent it from getting worse? This sounds hard - how are you managing to cope with this to the degree that you are?
What is a coping question?
500
When families have diffuse boundaries.
What is enmeshment?
500
Distancing by avoiding contact and is influenced by degree of differentiation and unresolved emotional attachment to parents.
What is emotional cutoff
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