Systems Theory
This concept posits that actions and responses have a reciprocal nature; one action and response influencing another action and response.
What is Circular Causaity
This is the process of educating families on the nature of family counseling, common interventions, cousnelor roles, and client expectations.
What is informed consent
This pioneer in family therapy developed the double-bind theory to explain schizophrenia development.
Who is Bateson
This type of prevention program is indicated when problems exist but the helper seeks to prevent further harm.
Indicated Prevention Program
This is a type of traditional family consisting of married parents and children in the household
What is a nuclear family
This word describes the process of developing rapport with families so that the counselor is a trusted member extension
what is joining
This concept states that systems will naturally regulate themselves through feedback loops
What is cybernetics
This term refers to a marriage where each spouse is from notably different cultural backgrounds (i.e. race/ethnicity, religion, narionality).
What is an intercultural marriage
This theory focuses on altering or restructuring distortion in beliefs that lead to family conflict and problematic behaviors
Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
This type of intervention may include "prescribing the symptom."
What is paradoxical intervention
This type of family is very common in modern times and involves the merging of two non-biological families with step-siblings and step-parents.
what is a blended familiy
This is considered the client in family counseling although the family might have identified an initial identified patient.
What is the family unit
A stage in cybernetics which means a return to stablization.
What is homeostasis?
This concept refers to differences between an older generation and the younger generation based on the length of time since immigration to a country.
what is an acculturation gap
This model of family therapy is based on the development of secure attachment amongst partners
What is Emotionally-Focused Couple's Therapy
When a family shows patterns of relating instead of just talking about or describing it. Prompting this can be tool for therapist to experientially intervene.
What is enactment
Ability to identify stressors, cohesion, emotional regulation, and family-centered support are findings associated with this concept.
Family Health
These curative elements have been shown to contribute to success in family therapy.
what are common factors in family therapy
This interaction promotes a return to equilibrium and often attenuates desired outcomes
Negative Feedback Loops
A family counselor should require this when seeing a family including minor children where the parents are divorced.
What is a divorce decree or custodial order
This key term can be defined as intrapsychic conflicts that are expressed or played out in interpersonal interactions.
What is projective identification
Parent-Child Relational Problems is an example of this.
what is a relational diagnostic code
This is associated with emotional dysregulation, diffuse boundaries, and power struggles.
Family Dysfunction
This concept describes the process-related problems that accounts for the content-related problem families bring into session.
what is meta-problem
This concept refers to the counselor's involvement and impact in the family system
What is Second-Order Cybernetics
This ethical code prohibits a counselor from evaluating a current client in forensic-related matters.
What is The ACA Code of Ethics
Samantha and Michael are experiencing early marriage stress, where neither really expresses appreciation for one another. Their couple's counselor has asked them to begin exercises where one person does something appreciative to the other, and in respose, the other returns with another appreciative behavior. An example of this approach...
What is Behavioral Couple's Therapy
This type of instrument has typically been validated and normed in the scientific community.
what is formal assessment
Single young adults, new couple, families with young children, families with adolescents, families launching children, and families in later life are examples of this.
What is the family life cycle
Structuring behaviors are most consistent family counselors in this stage of the family counseling process.
what are initial Sessions
This type of change is also known as a qualitative change
What is Second-Order Change
This term refers to the commitment on ongoing learning of other cultures and self-reflection related to their own cultural beliefs
If you are using the assessment, "Experiences in Close Relationships- Revised, you are attempting to assess this concept.
what is attachment security
This type of emotion is elicited from couples and then expressed experientially through an enactment in emotionally-focused couple's therapy
what is primary emotion (also known as soft or vulnerable)
Erikson's Integrity vs. Despair: Families in Late Life is an example of this
what is a unified individual and family life cycle
The display of family personalities and interaction in session through the use of verbal and non-verbal expression is known as this.
what is a family dance
An example of this process is when a family discovers that a certain action or interaction is not working and so engages in more intensity or frequency of the same interaction.
What is a first-order change
This ethical code states that custodial paperwork related to treatment involving minor children must be obtained, followed, and retained in the client chart.
Texas Administrative Code, LPC General Ethics
A counselor treating a family views the change process as occurring through the emotional exchange and processing between members in the present time is practicing from this type of therapy.
What is experiential therapy
This approach would help clients understand the antecedents to negative emotions by evaluating their cognitive response to situations
What is A-B-C procedure
These are the two types of stressors families experience
What are developmental stressors and situational stressors
An example of this process- A couple, Sam and John, are having increased arguments about Sam's alcohol use. To gain support for his stress, John begins turning to their fifteen year old daughter.
triangulation