Family Systems Key Terms
Postmodern Key Terms
Systemic Viewpoints Family Therapy
Postmodern Approaches
Fun Animal Facts that have Nothing to Do with this Class
100
The inability of a family to attain harmonious relationships and to achieve interdependence
What is family dysfunction?
100
A postmodern approach to therapy that is based on the therapist's personal characteristics that allow for creating a climate than encourages clients to see their stories from different perspectives. Grounded in a philosophical framework, these practices assist clients in finding new meanings and new possibilities in their lives.
What is narrative therapy?
100
4 figures were named who developed this systemic viewpoint in family therapy with the following: GOALS-enable parents as leaders, unlock mistaken interactions in family ROLE OF THERAPIST-educator, motivational investigator PROCESS OF CHANGE-relationship based on mutual respect PRACTICES-goal disclosure, family constellation
What is adlerian family therapy?
100
A postmodern approach to therapy that provides a context whereby individuals focus on recovering and creating solutions rather than talking about their problems
What is solution focused brief therapy?
100
Mabra elephantophilia, a type of moth, scratches the eyes of what animal to feed off of it's tears.
What is the elephant?
200
A nonverbal experiential technique that consists of physically arranging members of a family in a space, which reveals significant aspects of their perceptions and feelings about one another
What is family sculpting?
200
A process in narrative therapy in which client and therapist jointly create an alternative life story
What is re-authoring?
200
Murray Bowen developed this systemic viewpoint in family therapy with the following: GOALS-differentiate the self, change the individual within the context of the system, lower anxiety ROLE OF THERAPIST-guide, objective researcher, teacher PROCESS OF CHANGE-questions and cognitive processes lead to differentiation and understanding of family of origin TECHNIQUES- genograms, dealing with family of origin issues, detriangulating relationships
What is multi-generational family therapy?
200
A postmodern approach to therapy hat is based on the therapist's personal characteristics that allow for creating a climate that encourages clients to see their stories from different perspectives. It assists clients in finding new meaning and possibilities in their lives.
What is narrative therapy?
200
This mammal lays eggs and uses it's fat bill to sense electromagnetic fields.
What is the platypus?
300
An intervention consisting of a family playing out its relationship patterns during a therapy session so that the therapist can observe and then change transactions that make up the family structure
What is enactment?
300
A solution-focused technique that asks clients to imagine how their life would be different if they woke up tomorrow and they no longer had their problem
What is the miracle question?
300
Salvador Minuchin developed this systemic viewpoint in family therapy with the following: GOALS- restructure family organization, change dysfunctional transactional patterns ROLE OF THERAPIST- stage manager, promoter of change in family structure PROCESS OF CHANGE-therapist joins the family in a leadership role, changes structure, sets boundaries TECHNIQUES- boundary making, enactments, joining, accommodating
What is structural family therapy?
300
Putting clients in the position of being the experts about their own lives, do not assume by virtue of their frame of reference that they know the significance of the client's actions and experiences
What is the therapist's role in solution focused brief therapy?
300
This type of female fish, demonized in the movie Finding Nemo, uses it's luminous spines to lure prey.
What is the angler fish?
400
An experiential and humanistic approach developed by Virginia Satir, which viewed techniques as being secondary to the relationship a therapist develops with the family
What is the human validation process model?
400
Solution focused therapists inquire about those times in a clients' lives when the problems they identify have not been problematic. Exploring these reminds clients that problems are not all powerful and have not existed forever.
What are exception questions?
400
Carl Whitaker developed this systemic viewpoint in family therapy with the following: GOALS-promote spontaneity, creativity, autonomy, and ability to play ROLE OF THERAPIST- family coach, challenger, model for change through play PROCESS OF CHANGE-awareness and seeds of change are planted in therapy confrontations TECHNIQUES- co-therapy, self-disclosure, confrontation
What is experiential/ symbolic family therapy?
400
Theses shape reality in that they construct and constitute what we see, fell, and do. They grow out of conversations in social and cultural contexts.
What are stories (in narrative therapy)?
400
The kick of this animal has been known to decapitate lions.
What is the giraffe?
500
By the late 1970s, these complimentary approaches were the most used models in family systems therapy. Interventions generated in these models became synonymous with a systems approach; they included joining, boundary setting, unbalancing, reframing, ordeals, paradoxical interventions, and enactments.
What are structural-strategic approaches?
500
A therapeutic perspective within a postmodern worldview that stresses the client's reality without disputing the accuracy or validity of this reality. This emphasizes the ways in which people make meaning in social relationships.
What is social constructionism?
500
Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes developed this systemic viewpoint in family therapy with the following: GOALS-change dysfunctional patterns, interrupt the sequence ROLE OF THERAPIST- active director of change, problem solver PROCESS OF CHANGE- change occurs through action oriented directives and paradoxical interventions TECHNIQUES- reframing, directives and paradox, amplifying, enactments
What is strategic family therapy?
500
This group of people believes in subjective realities that cannot exist independently of the observational processes used.
Who are postmodernists?
500
When this bug is losing a fight, they contract their abdominal muscles to make their bodies explode, thus spraying their enemies with the poison that runs through glands in their bodies.
What is the carpenter ant?
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