Theory
This family therapy model developed by Salvador Minuchin focuses on family structure, boundaries, and hierarchies.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
The legal right of clients to understand the therapy process, including risks, benefits, and alternatives.
What is informed consent?
This is a comprehensive tool used to gather background, family history, and systemic dynamics.
What is a genogram?
This test screens for potential alcohol use disorder.
What is the CAGE Questionnaire?
The thing most therapists desperately want you to stop doing mid-session.
What is checking your phone?
This postmodern model, associated with Michael White and David Epston, focuses on externalizing problems.
What is Narrative Therapy?
This federal law governs the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).
What is HIPAA
This diagnosis requires symptoms such as hyper-vigilance, flashbacks, and avoidance following trauma.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
The part of the treatment plan that identifies how success will be measured.
What are goals or measurable objectives?
The favorite phrase therapists use to avoid giving direct advice.
What is “How does that feel to you?”
This family therapy approach emphasizes directive interventions and paradoxical techniques to disrupt problem-maintaining patterns.
What is Strategic Family Therapy?
Therapists must maintain records for this many years after termination in California.
What is 7 years
Differentiating between grief and this diagnosis can be challenging, especially in the early stages of loss.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
In this phase, clients begin developing insight and trying new behaviors.
What is the working phase?
The snack therapists secretly keep for their own stress relief.
What is chocolate (or literally anything with sugar)?
In Bowen theory, this occurs when two people draw in a third to reduce anxiety.
What is triangulation?
Clients generally have the right to access their records unless this is true.
What is if it would result in serious harm to the client or others?
A client presents with mood instability, impulsivity, and intense fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
The therapist must revise the treatment plan when this occurs.
What is a significant change in client symptoms or goals?
The phrase that means “I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’ll wing it.”
What is “Let’s circle back on that”?
Strategic therapists might paradoxically assign this in order to disrupt a symptom-maintaining cycle.
What is prescribing the symptom?
An LMFT may not provide services in this area unless they have specific training (e.g., psychological testing).
What is outside the scope of competence or practice?
ADHD must be differentiated from this mood disorder due to shared symptoms of inattention and impulsivity.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
In this stage, the therapist assesses client motivation, stability, and treatment history.
What is the assessment and planning stage?
The snack everyone pretends to like but secretly avoids.
What is “The suspiciously healthy granola bar”?