Bowen
This Bowen concept refers to balancing emotional closeness and autonomy.
Differentiation of self
This concept refers to overly diffuse boundaries between family members.
Enmeshment
EFT views relationship distress as rooted primarily in insecurity within this type of emotional bond between partners.
Attachment
This classic Solution-Focused question asks clients to imagine life without the problem.
Miracle Question
This type of change involves altering behaviors within the system while the overall structure of the system remains the same.
first-order change
When tension between two people is stabilized through a third person, this process is occurring.
Triangulation
Who is primary developer of Structural Family Therapy?
Salvador Minuchin
This Satir intervention physically represents emotional closeness and distance among family members.
This Narrative intervention separates the person from the problem.
Externalization
This type of systemic change involves transformation of the family’s underlying structure, rules, or interaction patterns.
Second-Order Change
A Bowen therapist often uses this assessment tool to examine multigenerational patterns.
Genogram
This concept refers to smaller relational units within the larger family, such as the parental, sibling, or marital unit.
Subsystems
A Satir therapist explores multigenerational experiences, important family events, and developmental patterns using this assessment tool
Family Life Chronology
This Narrative process helps clients develop alternative preferred stories about themselves.
Re-Authoring
This concept reflects how families often resist major relational shifts in order to maintain this baseline
Homeostasis
A client cutting off contact with parents to avoid anxiety demonstrates this Bowen concept.
Emotional Cutoff
A Structural therapist would likely strengthen this subsystem when children repeatedly interrupt marital conflict
Parental Subsystem
This EFT intervention helps partners process and heal significant relational wounds caused by betrayal or abandonment.
Attachment Injury Resolution Model
A Narrative therapist asking about times the client resisted the influence of Depression is helping identify these unique outcomes.
Unique Outcomes (not exceptions, solution focused)
This systems principle suggests that change in one family member affects the entire system.
Interconnectedness
This process occurs when unresolved parental anxiety is transmitted onto a child who becomes the focus of dysfunction or concern.
Family projection process
A child becomes overly involved in parental conflict and aligns closely with one parent against the other. A Structural therapist would identify this process as what?
Cross-generational Coalition
A Satir therapist notices a client intellectually explaining feelings while smiling and minimizing emotional pain. The therapist would MOST likely identify this incongruence as which communication stance.
Superreasonable Stance
Compliments, scaling questions, and identifying exceptions are all designed to increase clients’ awareness of ______.
Strengths
This type of causality views problems as mutually influencing rather than linear.
Circular Causality