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Therapeutic Techniques
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The practice of treating psychological issues in the context of the family first appeared in what decade?
What is the 1950s.
100
American psychiatrist who specialized in schizophrenia, one of the first to family therapy in the context of looking at whole families with schizophrenic members, also the founder of systemic therapy.
Who is Murray Bowen.
100
Views family problems as being tenacious and resistant to change because they're embedded in powerful but unseen structures.
What is Structural Family Therapy.
100
Marriage and family therapists have unique confidentiality concerns because the client in a therapeutic relationship may be more than one person. What client(s) are the therapists obligated to maintain confidentiality with in a family system?
What is all members of the family system, therapists respect and guard the confidences of each individual client.
100
Schematic drawing listing family members, relationships, ages, dates of birth, marriages, deaths, and other significant information regarding the family and relationship dynamics.
What is a genogram (Bowen Family Systems Therapy).
200
The golden age of family therapy was a 15 year period between what two decades that saw the growth of the classic schools of family therapy as the pioneers established training centers and worked out the implications of their models.
What is a period from 1970-1985.
200
Argentinian physician who began his career as a family therapist in the 1960s who discovered two patterns common to troubled families: some that are enmeshed - chaotic and tightly interconnected; and others that are disengaged - isolated and seemingly unrelated.
Who is Salvador Minuchin.
200
This therapy is founded on the premise that the root cause of family problems is emotional suppression. Treatment is designed to help family members find fulfilling roles for themselves, with less concern for the family as a whole.
What is Experiential Family Therapy.
200
If a family unit made up of mom, dad, brother, and sister is coming to see you for therapy to cope with a behavioral problem in the home. The wife asks you if you could see her and her husband additionally to work on issues of marriage infidelity. Can you ethically see the couple in that context outside from the family sessions you see them.
What is a conflict of interest. Marriage and family therapists do not provide services that create a conflict of interest that may impair work performance or clinical judgment.
200
Tasks in which success is based on either the family defying the instructions or following them to an absurd extreme and then withdrawing.
What are paradoxical interventions (Strategic Family Therapy).
300
True or False? Family therapy was influenced by the work of social psychologists who studied small group dynamics in the 1920's.
What is true.
300
American psychotherapists who is known as the "mother of family therapy." Her work focused on family reconstruction.
Who is Virginia Satir (Experiential Family Therapy).
300
The goal of this therapy is to reach a high level of differentiation of self (autonomy and levelheadedness), it is also associated with paying attention to multigenerational emotional processes, sibling position, and triangles.
What is Bowen Family Systems Therapy.
300
If you are treating a family with children under the age of 18 and the couple then files for divorce, are you allowed to perform the forensic evaluation for a child custody case for this family?
What is avoid a conflict of interest. Marriage and family therapists who treat minors or adults involved in custody or visitation actions may not also perform forensic evaluations for custody, residence, or visitation of the minor. Marriage and family therapists who treat minors may provide the court or mental health professional performing the evaluation with information about the minor from the marriage and family therapist’s perspective as a treating marriage and family therapist, so long as the marriage and family therapist does not violate confidentiality.
300
Therapists produces change by joining the family, probing for areas of flexibility, and then activating structural alternatives.
What is joining (Structural Family Therapy).
400
Family therapy agrees or disagrees with the ideas proposed the research of Kurt Lewin who conceptualization that a group is more than the sum of its parts and suggested that group discussions were more effective then lecturing in changing behavior and ideas.
What is agrees.
400
He is best known for his contribution to the development of the psychodynamic approach to family therapy. His main focuses, with respect to family therapy, were intergenerational ties and conflicts, the influence of long-term social change impacting the family, the developmental stages of the family as a single unit, the importance of emotion within the family structure, and equal amounts of authority among parents.
Who is Nathan Ackerman.
400
This theory seeks to identify the symptoms within the family that are the cause of the family’s current problems, and fix these problems. The problems of the clients stem not from their family’s behaviors toward the client, but instead it is the symptoms of the family that need to be corrected. In this theory, a symptom is “the repetitive sequence that keeps the process going."
What is Strategic Family Therapy.
400
How would you treat a couple engaged in marital violence? Treat them together or treat one of them and refer the offender out to anger management or batterer intervention program?
What is yes and no. This is a very difficult issue for family therapists. On one hand, treating the couple together can put the victim in danger and could provide the offender with a platform for self-justification. On the other hand, the argument for seeing violent couples together is that violence is the outcome of mutual provocation an escalation of the emotionally destructive behavior that characterizes many relationships and can be worked on.
400
A psychodrama technique in which a family member enacts a feeling or family structure. The goal is to offer a symbolic representation of family dynamics.
What is family sculpting (Experiential Family Therapy).
500
Who is generally considered the “father of general systems theory?” a) Carl Sagan b) Noam Chomsky c) Milton Erickson d) Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Who is d) Ludwig von Bertalanffy was a biologist who applied ideas about the organization and control of systems from the natural sciences to biology and human groups. He developed the concept of a human group as a self-regulating system, greater than the some of its parts. In 1968 von Bertalanffy published General Systems Theory.
500
His work embodied a deep and profound understanding of families’ emotional lives; to the casual observer, he often seemed rude or inappropriate. When he was “inappropriate,” it was always for the purpose of confronting or otherwise intervening on emotional dynamics that he wanted to expose, challenge, and transform. He was adamant about balancing strong emotional confrontation with warmth and support from the therapist. In many ways, he encouraged therapists to move beyond the rules of polite society and invite all participants to be genuine and real enough to speak the whole truth.
Who is Carl Whitaker.
500
In this theory, the family therapist wants to free the family from excessive attachment to the previous generation and wants to help family members disclose secrets and express concomitant feelings (e.g., of anger or grief). Change is created through insight that is often revealed in one individual at a time.
What is Psychodynamic Family Therapy.
500
How would you treat a family in which a child has been sexually abused? Is it ethical to treat them together or is it best to treat the family members separately.
What is yes and no. It is a case by case decision. The first goal should be to ensure that the abuse does not recur and the second to reduce the long-term effects of the trauma. Utilize the resources of child protective services and social control agents. Give the child a safe forum to explore his or her complex feelings. If the situation lends itself a combination of individual and conjoint sessions helps make it safe to talk about feelings (meeting first with the non-offender).
500
This technique is used in all forms of family therapy and suggests that problems are sustained by an ongoing series of actions and reactions. No one personal is responsible and who started it rarely matters.
What is circular causality.
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