Evolution of Family Therapy
Leading Figures
Traditional Theories
Post-Modern Theories
Traditional Theories: Concepts & Interventions
Definitions
Post-Modern Theories: Concepts & Interventions
100

The evolution of FT began when clinicians were studying ____

Schizophrenia (patients & their families) 

100

This clinician originated the Miracle Question

Insoo Berg (Solution-Focused) 

100

According to Bowen, human relationships are driven by two counter-balancing life forces ____ & ____

Individuality & Togetherness

100

The cybernetic approach focused on self-defeating patterns of behaviors; the Narrative approach focuses on self-defeating ____

Cognitions

100

The cornerstone of the theory & goal of therapy in Bowenian Family Therapy 

Differentiation of Self

100

Units in families determined by age, gender, and function

Subsystems (Structural)

100

"Alien entities" and "unwelcome invaders" are examples of what Narrative intervention?

Personification 

200

(T/F): In the 1950's therapists noticed that schizophrenic patients who improved in the hospital setting would continue to improve when they returned home

False 

200

Name the three main groups of pioneers of Strategic Therapy

MRI Group 

Haley & Madanes 

Milan Systemic 

200

This model of therapy was the leading approach in the 1970's 

Structural Family Therapy

200

The two most powerful factors that came out of Narrative Therapy


Narrative metaphor itself & Externalizing problems

200

In this type of intervention the therapist tells the client to do more of the presenting issue, hoping they will rebel against the directive 

Prescribing the symptom (will also accept paradox) 

200

A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship

Double-bind (Communications Theory)

200

According to Solution-Focused Therapy, this type of client is someone who is not really in the market for therapy and is usually there because of someone else

Visitor 

300

In 1951, Gregory Bateson (Palo Alto) led the Schizophrenia Project and studied the nature of ___

Communication 

300

This therapist pioneered the use of working with a co-therapist 

Carl Whitaker (Experiential)

300

Bowen theorized that the greater the level of fusion between parent and child, the greater the likelihood of ____

Emotional Cut-Off

300

Solution-Focused Therapy is influenced by which traditional approach?



Strategic Therapy (MRI Group)

300

The centerpiece of Strategic Therapy 

Positive Feedback Loop 

300

In Solution-Focused Therapy, these types of questions are designed to help talk about vague topics when it is challenging to identify concrete changes or goals

Scaling Questions

300

Uniting the family against "the rift" would be an example of which Narrative intervention?

Externalization 

400

Term used to describe domineering, aggressive, rejecting women who were thought to provide the pathological parenting that produced schizophrenia 

Schizophrenogenic Mother

400

This person is considered the first family therapist 

John Bell

400

This approach believes that problems are maintained by dysfunctional family organization and failure to make adjustments to changing circumstances

Structural Family Therapy 

400

What are the three terms de Shazer used to assess clients in their motivation for change? 

 Vistor 

Complainant

Customer 

400

Minuchin would say that ___ is reinforced by expectations and family rules and only becomes evident when observed in action 

Structure 

400

Pessimistic and blaming accounts that bring clients to therapy, which often keeps them stuck


Problem-saturated stories (Narrative)

400

"Between now and the next time we meet, I would like for you to...." 

Is an example of what Solution-Focused Intervention?

Formula first-session task 

500

Bateson identified two levels of communication ___ & ___

Report & Command

500

This pioneer from the post-modern era rejected systems thinking, cybernetics, and other traditional models but liked Bateson's notion of "how people construe the world"

Michael White (Narrative)
500

"There are no techniques, only people" is a stance used by what theoretical model?

Experiential 

500

What are the two fundamental strategies Solution-Focused techniques are organized around?

1. Well-focused goals (framed in the client's language) 

2. Solutions based on exceptions 

500

The process by which individuals remove themselves from the emotional field of two others (Bowen)

Detriangulation

500

An inappropriate alliance between parent and child, who side together against a third member of the family 

Cross-Generational Coalition (Structural)

500

In Narrative therapy, _____  refers to the therapist exploring level of distress or impact the problem has had on the family and the extent to which the family has been able to stand up to the problem

Mapping the Influence 

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