Strategic & Structural
A strategy to provoke change by prescribing the symptom.
Paradoxical intervention
In Bowen theory, this concept refers to the ability to separate thinking from emotion.
Differentiation of self
The narrative therapy technique that separates a person from the problem.
Externalization
Satir’s iceberg metaphor is used to explore what?
Client’s internal emotional world
In systems theory, this type of feedback loop amplifies change and moves the system away from homeostasis.
Positive feedback
Where was the MRI located?
Palo Alto, California
This Bowenian concept describes emotional patterns passed down through generations.
Multigenerational transmission
Narrative term for small instances of preferred identity that reflect personal agency.
Sparkling moments
This stance in Satir's model often agrees with others to stay safe, even at personal cost.
The placater
"____ associated with the therapist include therapist empathy, positive regard, and genuineness."
-Pinsof et al. (2018) p. 35
Common factors
This is the term for a task that is given by a therapist to a client in Strategic Family Therapy that encourages them to do something new.
A directive
The invisible balance sheet of fairness and trust in Contextual Therapy.
What is the relational ledger?
Narrative term that refers to times that contradict the problem-saturated story.
Unique outcomes
Which model would be BEST to use with a family who avoids emotion, uses sarcasm, and shows masked distress through behavior like fire-setting?
Symbolic Experiential Therapy
Mindfulness falls under which planning metaframework?
Biobehavioral
In Structural Family Therapy, this type of boundary prevents emotional connection and flexibility between subsystems.
Rigid boundaries
This is a term for when a child is implicitly assigned to resolve generational trauma.
What is parentification or the revolving slate?
SFBT searches for these in the client’s story to identify when the problem isn’t happening.
Exceptions
DAILY DOUBLE
This Satir survival stance distracts, jokes, or changes the subject to avoid emotional discomfort
Irrelevant stance
This term asserts that different strategies and interventions (“inputs”) can lead to similar outcomes (“outputs”)
Equifinality
This is the term for a group of therapists who came out from behind the one-way mirror to discuss their impressions with the therapist and family
Reflecting team
This person introduced loyalty and legacy as key therapeutic constructs.
Who is Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy?
This is the term for a group of therapists who came out from behind the one-way mirror to discuss their impressions with the therapist and family
What is the reflecting team?
This intervention uses physical arrangement to express family dynamics in Satir and Symbolic Experiential therapy.
Family sculpting
This is the term for a force within systems that transcends the particular individuals and moves toward change