Therapy Definitions
An approach that alters the organization (hierarchy) of a family to enable its members to solve their problems.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
An entity that maintains its existence through the mutual interaction of its parts.
What is a system?
The idea that one event is the cause and another is the effect.
What is linear causality?
Includes looking a multiple generations and often encourages the creation of a genogram or family map
What is Bowenian Family Therapy/Intergenerational?
A social constructionist family therapy that helps clients challenge their views of themselves as the problem and helps them develop alternative stories about themselves based on their strengths
What is narrative therapy?
Spoken or written words; in communication, what is said. The "subject" of arguments.
An individual family member identified as having the specific problem and who is representative of a larger family problem. The symptom bearer for dysfunction in the family.
What is the identified patient?
What is Contextual Family Therapy?
A social constructionist family therapy that helps clients solve their problems by identifying naturally occurring opportunities within their lives and helping them utilize them.
What is solution-focused therapy?
What is family rules?
Occurs when a system maintains stability or the status quo. Refers to the tendency of families to develop recurring interactional patterns to maintain stability and balance
What is homeostasis?
The use of writing letters to yourself or others in order to process situations and "rewrite" your life story (or how you view it)
What is Narrative Therapy?
A specific form of experiential therapy where the therapist attempts to have an experiential form of encounter with the client, operating at the symbolic level in order to bypass client resistance.
What is symbolic experiential family therapy?
What is process?
Refers to a nonlinear, circular sequence of events whereby one event modifies another event, which in turn modifies another event, which eventually modifies the original event.
The use of paradoxes, ordeal therapy, and actions seen as manipulative in order to create change in systems
What is strategic family therapy?
A brief approach that focuses on observing and altering -usually though "manipulative" means - the interactional sequences in which a problem is embedded.
What is cybernetics?
Behavior and affect that is associated with problems and disease. Focusing on the issues wrong with a person
What is pathology?
The use of the "miracle question" in therapy, exception questions, and focusing on leading clients towards solutions to their problem.