Models/Theory
Psychodynamic Family Therapy (? model)
Object Relations Family Therapy (? model)
What is Psychodynamic Model?
Structural Family Therapy implies that all families have an implicit structure that determines how family members relate to one another. One element of the family’s structure is its power hierarchies, which determine how members combine forces during times of conflict.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
Strategies that support adaptive mechanisms and strengths providing psychoeducation and supportive advice and encouraging the use of existing coping mechanisms.
What are client goals/ interventions?
a period of psychological disequilibrium, experienced as a result of a hazardous event or situation that constitutes a significant problem that cannot be remedied by using familiar coping strategies
What is a crisis?
This refers to the right of clients, research participants, and others to be given adequate information about therapy, a research study, or other service or procedure before making the decision to participate in it.
What is informed consent?
People construct reality through their own subjective experiences or through social interactions. Therapy involves deconstructing current assumptions and constructing new views of problems that lead to new solutions.
What is Postmodern Constructivist and Social Constructionist?
Communication, power, and hierarchies are key concepts in his/her approach. He considered communication to be a source of power, which he described as the ability to define the nature of one’s relationship with another person.
Who is Jay Haley?
• Have appropriate attitudes, beliefs, and skills
• Have a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friendly office (c)
• Be aware that an LGBT client’s problems may be related to exposure to prejudice and discrimination, internalized homophobia, a lack of social support, or other unique issues faced by members of this population.
What are the guidelines to the LGBT clients?
Triggered by a sudden, uncontrollable, and usually unanticipated event that threatens the person’s sense of psychological, biological, and/or social well-being.
What is a situational crisis?
This group of individuals may not receive treatment without the consent of a parent or legal guardian. However, state laws provide exceptions to this general rule – for example, when the minor is legally emancipated, meets the legal criteria for a mature minor, or is seeking treatment for a condition or situation specified in the law.
What is Informed Consent for the Treatment of Minors?
Behavior disorders are due to learned maladaptive behavior patterns and/or dysfunctional cognitive processes. Problems are resolved by learning new behavior patterns and restructuring dysfunctional cognitions.
What is Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Extended family systems therapy also known as intergenerational Family Therapy extends systems theory beyond the nuclear family and describes the functioning of the extended family and its members in terms of eight interrelated concepts with Differentiation of Self being a core concept.
Who is Murry Bowen?
This is an example of (? Stages of Treatment)
• Reduce core symptoms using interventions that target affect, cognitions, and behaviors related to the client’s symptoms.
• Strengthen the client’s ability to cope with current problems, relapses, and future problems.
• Increase the client’s self-esteem and sense of personal efficacy. Emphasize the client’s strengths and reinforce signs of progress
• identify achievable tasks for the client to perform on his/her own; and provide opportunities to practice new skills and receive feedback.
What are the Middle Stages of Treatment?
Embedded in developmental processes and occurs when a person is struggling with the transition from one life stage to another.
What is Maturational (developmental) crisis?
This refers to the limits of what an MFT is qualified to do based on his or her education, training, and experience and is addressed in laws and ethical guidelines.
What is scope of competence?
Dysfunctional families are caught up in "dirty games" that involve power struggles and deceit. Therapy disrupts rigid, destructive games by exploring the family belief system and helping family members make constructive changes and new choices.
What is Milan Therapy?
Incorporates principles of postmodernism and social constructionism. It rejects the idea that people’s problems are manifestations of underlying needs, traits, or other internal forces and assumes that “our sense of reality is organized and maintained through the stories by which we circulate knowledge about ourselves and the world we inhabit”
Who is Michael White and David Epston?
These are examples of: (? stages of treatment)
• Evaluate risk factors
• When appropriate, address crisis situations by fulfilling legal obligations.
• Create a therapeutic framework by eliciting the presenting problem
•developing a therapeutic alliance by establishing rapport and building trust and confidence, and providing information about the therapy process.
• Conduct a preliminary assessment and make a provisional diagnosis.
What are Early Stages of Treatment?
This type of response may include flashbacks, intrusive thoughts and images, nightmares, disorientation, confusion, and impaired memory, concentration, and decision-making.
What are cognitive symptoms?
This occurs when an MFT has a professional relationship and a distinct and separate relationship with a client or a professional relationship with a client and a relationship with a person close to the client.
What is a multiple relationship?
Symptoms are attributable to maladaptive communication patterns that involve a struggle for control. Therapy focuses on altering those patterns to produce symptom relief and resolve presenting problem(s).
What is Strategic Therapy?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a brief empirically supported therapy that integrates principles of attachment theory, humanistic approaches, systems theory, and constructivism.
Who is Leslie Greenburg and Sue Johnson?
Research in terms of race, ethnicity, or culture has shown that it increases the duration of treatment but does not have consistent effects on other therapy outcomes. More research suggests that the preference of clients for ethnically similar therapists and the effects of matching depend on certain individual factors such as the client’s ethnic identity, level of acculturation, gender, and trust of white clinicians.
What is therapist-client matching?
This level is suggested when the client has a concrete plan and access to lethal means to carry out that plan, has multiple risk factors and is unwilling or unable to form a therapeutic alliance.
What is high risk?
Marriage and family therapists do not disclose supervisee confidences except by written authorization or waiver, or when mandated or permitted by law. In educational or training settings where there are multiple supervisors, disclosures are permitted only to other professional colleagues, administrators, or employers who share responsibility for training of the supervisee. Verbal authorization will not be sufficient except in emergency situations, unless prohibited by law.
What is confidentiality with supervisees?