Founders & Theories
This theorist is known as the founder of Structural Family Therapy.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
In Bowen theory, this concept refers to the ability to separate thoughts from feelings.
What is differentiation of self?
A technique in Strategic Therapy where the therapist prescribes the symptom to gain control of it.
What is a paradoxical intervention?
Focuses on breaking intergenerational patterns and increasing differentiation.
What is Bowen Family Systems Theory?
A family is enmeshed and lacks clear boundaries. The therapist restructures the system.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
He developed the concept of the family as an emotional unit and focused on intergenerational patterns.
Who is Murray Bowen?
In Structural Therapy, these define relationships and determine how family members interact.
What are boundaries?
In Structural Therapy, therapists might ask family members to act out a scenario.
What is enactment?
Emphasizes flexibility in family structure and clear boundaries.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
A teen triangulates between their divorced parents. The therapist helps reduce emotional reactivity
What is Bowen Family Systems Theory?
She was one of the originators of the Milan Systemic approach to family therapy.
Who is Mara Selvini Palazzoli?
A repeating interactional pattern that often includes a third party to reduce tension.
What is triangulation?
In Narrative Therapy, clients are asked to externalize the problem.
What is externalization?
Considers the family as a system of feedback loops and communication.
What is Strategic Family Therapy?
A couple keeps repeating the same arguments. The therapist interrupts the pattern.
What is Strategic Family Therapy?
This theorist emphasized strategic interventions and the use of paradoxical techniques.
Who is Jay Haley?
This term refers to the hierarchy that should exist between generations in a healthy family structure
What is generational hierarchy?
This visual tool maps three generations and is used in Bowenian and Psychodynamic family therapy
What is a genogram?
Believes that re-authoring stories changes behavior and identity.
What is Narrative Therapy?
A client blames themselves for anxiety. The therapist names the anxiety "The Worry Monster" and separates it from their identity.
What is Narrative Therapy?
He is associated with Narrative Therapy and the idea of "re-authoring" stories.
Who is Michael White?
According to Psychodynamic Family Therapy, unresolved conflict and emotional baggage are passed down through generations.
What is transgenerational transmission?
This Strategic Therapy technique involves encouraging behavior in order to extinguish it.
What is prescribing the symptom?
Focuses on revealing and resolving unconscious conflicts and patterns.
What is Psychodynamic/Object Relations Family Therapy?
A parent unconsciously projects unresolved issues from their childhood onto their child. The therapist uses a genogram to explore this.
What is Psychodynamic Family Therapy?