Advanced Intergenerational
The tendency to cut off emotional connection as a way to manage unresolved family tension.
Emotional cutoff
This model helps partners access and restructure primary emotion to restore secure bonds.
Emotionally Focused Therapy or EFT
Creating enactments falls within which of the planning metaframeworks
Action
This term refers to a change that occurs within a system’s existing rules
First-order change
Contextual Therapy centers on this guiding principle, emphasizing fairness and mutual care.
Relational Ethics
IFS emphasizes helping clients build a relationship with this central healing presence.
The Self
Facilitating grief and adaptation to loss falls under which of the planning metaframeworks?
Meaning/emotion?
This cybernetic term refers to recursive causality where no one person is seen as the root of the problem.
Circular causality
When a therapist sees patterns that span at least three generations, they may be mapping this
Genogram
In IFS, this term describes when one part dominates and suppresses others, leading to imbalance.
Polarization or blending
The hypothesis of the ____ planning metaframework is that clients have been unable to implement their solution sequence because of constraints that derive from their narcissistic vulnerability and rigidity.
Self
This structural family therapy term refers to overly diffuse relational boundaries that hinder individual autonomy
Enmeshment
In Contextual therapy, unresolved relational debts often drive dysfunctional behavior across generations
Invisible loyalties
This IFS part often takes over during crises, engaging in impulsive or extreme behavior to distract from pain.
Firefighters
The ____ house and organize the many and varied strategies and interventions available to an IST therapist.
Planning metaframeworks
This term describes the implicit role-based interdependence in family systems, often seen in pursuer-distancer dynamics.
Complementarity