Postmodern Therapies
Narrative Therapy
Family Relationships
Family Therapist Tools
Approach and Process of FST
100
In this approach to therapy, individuals focus on recovering and creating solutions rather than talking about their problems. It is optimistic, anti-deterministic, and future-oriented.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
100
The process by which both therapist and client share responsibility for the development of alternative stories.
What is coauthoring?
100
The functional organization of a family, which determines interactional patterns among members.
What is family structure?
100
Bowen’s and Whitaker’s view of the role of the therapist in assisting clients in the process of differentiating the self.
What is coaching?
100
A therapeutic approach directed at changing or realigning the organization of a family to modify dysfunctional patterns and clarify boundaries.
What is structural therapy?
200
This approach uses therapy to create a climate that 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?
200
This stance invites clients to become the experts who are informing the therapist about the significant narratives of their lives.
What is not-knowing position?
200
Minuchin’s term referring to a family structure in which there is a blurring of psychological boundaries, making autonomy very difficult to achieve.
What is enmeshment?
200
Satir’s experiential technique in which clients retrace their family history for the purpose of gaining insight into current family functioning.
What is Family life-fact chronology?
200
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?
300
A way of understanding a situation that has been so widely accepted within a culture that it appears to represent “reality.” Growing out of conversations in a social and cultural context, these shape reality in that they construct and constitute what people see, feel, and do.
What is a dominant story?
300
This totalizing description of identity is told by clients who are feeling overwhelmed by their problems, to which they are fused.
What is problem-saturated story?
300
Minuchin’s term for a family organization characterized by psychological isolation that results from rigid boundaries.
What is disengagement?
300
The implicit agreements that prescribe the rights, duties, and range of appropriate behaviors within the family.
What is family rules?
300
The way in which dysfunctional patterns are passed from one generation to the next.
What is multigenerational transmission?
400
The 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?
400
Narrative therapists search for these aspects of lived experience, which lie outside the realm of dominant stories or in contradiction to the problem-saturated story.
What are unique outcomes?
400
Bowen’s concept of psychological separation of intellect and emotions and of independence of the self from others. High levels are associated with an improved ability to keep from being drawn into dysfunctional patterns with other family members.
What is differentiation of self?
400
A nonverbal experiential technique that consists of physically arranging members of a family in space, which reveals significant aspects of their perceptions and feelings about one another.
What is family sculpting?
400
An approach that operates on the premise that a predictable pattern of interpersonal relationships connects the functioning of family members across generations.
What is multigenerational family therapy?
500
In this technique, clients are asked to observe changes in feelings, moods, thoughts, and behavior and rate changes in their experiences on a scale of zero to 10.
What is scaling questions?
500
The exploration of meaning by taking apart, or unpacking, the taken-for-granted categories and assumptions underlying social practices that pose as truth.
What is deconstruction?
500
The arrangement for family functioning based on generational boundaries that involve parental control and authority.
What is hierarchical structure?
500
A schematic diagram of the family system, usually including at least three generations; employed by many family therapists to identify recurring behavior patterns within the family.
What is the genogram?
500
A therapeutic approach whereby the therapist develops a specific plan and designs interventions geared toward solving a family’s presenting problems
What is strategic therapy?
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