Application PLEASE!
Arranging the family members in physical postures that represent how each person feels and the relationship that each has to the others.
What is family sculpting?
The primary resource of relationships.
What is trust?
The belief in the inherent value and power of human beings.
What is humanism?
This scientific model acted as the basis for Bowen’s theoretical construction.
What is evolutionary theory?
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively what one thinks and feels in a manner that is appropriate to the context in which the communication is offered.
What is congruence?
Formal, structural maps developed by Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson, that are used to describe families over several generations and that code the emotional/affective and transactional relationships that exist in families. These are commonly used with Bowenian Family Therapy.
What are genograms?
A metaphor for the intergenerational transmission of positive and negative interactions and resource passed on in a family system.
What is the ledger?
The belief in the inherent struggle in being human that is connected to universal anxiety, angst, and despair common to all human beings.
What is existentialism?
The ability to understand oneself in the context of a relationship with a corresponding capacity to act I a non-reactive fashion.
What is differentiation?
This confusing communication is utilized by all people in some form or another, and can be connected to the development of symptoms.
Organizing family members based on the rules and boundaries visible to the therapist in the family structure.
What is family mapping?
The internal feeling of being owed something by others connected with the demand that others provide for that need in specified fashions.
What is destructive entitlement?
The study of the origins and beginning of knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
This functional appearing masquerade is a systemic attempt to deal with unprocessed family of origin issues.
What is emotional cutoff?
Satir’s concept of stress position that she refers to as blaming, placating, super-reasonable, and irrelevant that are responsive to double messages.
What are communication stances?
This therapeutic tool is similar to, and often considered to encompass, validation, while also extending to point out potentially destructive behaviors and patterns to increase a sense of individual accountability.
What is acknowledgement?
Viewing a person or an object rationally from an outside perspective, and thus being able to describe its parts.
What is I-It relating?
A poorly defined reaction to and rejection of past beliefs common to the 19th and early 20th century.
What is post-modernism?
Daily Double!
How does homeostasis fit into Virginia Satir’s model of therapy? Is it a construct necessary for the model? Defend your assertion.
The universal nature of human existence that connects all people in one collective identity, of which every person is a unique manifestation.
What is the Human Life Force?
Whitaker’s conceptual equivalent to maintaining a Bowenian “I-position” in a therapeutic setting.
What is the battle for structure?
The manner through which individuals are able earn merit in the context of a relationship and build the resources that establish the foundation of ethical interactions.
What is providing due care?
Daily Double!
Apply one model of family therapy utilized in this semester to discuss the concept of family rules. Consider the function and the origin of family rules from the perspective of the applied theory.
The increasing preference of one child over other relationships as a way of reducing anxiety in a family in stressful situations.
What is the family projection process?
A form of physical ailment most commonly associated with unproductive communication strategies.
What is lower back pain.