THEORY OF
CHANGE
ROLE OF
THERAPIST
INTERVENTIONS
TREATMENT
GOALS
THEORY
CONCEPTS
100

Problems are viewed as separate entities from the client and change occurs by creating a new narrative or story which emphasizes the client’s competencies and strengths.

NARRATIVE

100

Assists the client in recognizing these disempowering forces or influences which can ultimately empower the client.

FEMINIST THEORY

100

Token Economy

BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

100

Identify unrealistic automatic thoughts and change them to create more positive and accurate schemas

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

100

Placater, Blamer, Computer, Distractor are all styles of what?

Styles of Communication (Satir)

200

Change is believed to be constant, and the therapy focuses on the client’s strengths and resources in order to create a more effective future.

SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY

200

Work through emotional conflicts that are being avoided in order to create a sense of fairness and support among family members.

CONTEXTUAL THEORY

200

Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

200

Help individuals learn more about themselves and their relationships, so they can assume responsibility for their own problems.

Bowen

200

a stance of no preconception for session, no hypothesis, diagnosis or directives.

Not Knowing Position (Collaborative Language System).

300

Change occurs by increasing client’s self-awareness, and challenging and modifying his or her fundamental premises, life goals, and basic concepts.

ADLERIAN THERAPY

300

Change occurs through awareness, acceptance, reflection, and regulation of emotions and views emotion as an agent of change.

EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY

300

Create boundaries within the family system.

Structural Family Therapy

300

Gain insight and an understanding of oneself and others.

Constructivist Theory

300

This concept focuses on the best interest of each individual, even those who are not currently in the room to promote relational fairness.

Multidirectional Partiality (Contextual)

400

Anxiety is lowered within the current family system and between the current family and families-of-origin as a result of understanding multigenerational or current family dynamics.

BOWEN

400

Helps the family understand how family structure (relationships and hierarchies) can be changed. Explores the rituals and rules of the family. Explores how new patterns of interaction can be integrated into the family.

Structural Family Therapy

400

Transforming rules

Satir

400

Move from being out of control to being in control.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

400

Alignments where two or more family members join together to form a bond against another family member.

Coalitions (Structural)

500

Change occurs by identifying individual and family relational patterns that allow personal growth, family connectedness, and create more effective ways of interacting with one another.

SYMBOLIC EXPERIENTIAL THERAPY

500

Utilize the principles for making a marriage work and adjust them to each couple’s particular patterns and conflicts.

Gottman Theory's

500

Adult children are encouraged to look at their parents as humans struggling with their own problems.

Contextual

500

The objective is to dissolve problems and the problem-determined system by co-creating new possibilities and perceptions of the old story through dialogue.

Collaborative Language Systems

500

Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling

The Four Horseman (Gottman)

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