Systemic-Strategic Family Therapy
This approach involves presenting a problem or situation in a new light or from a different perspective, thus helping family members see their issues in a new context
What is Systemic Reframing?
This approach is used to help the social worker better understand the dynamics that occur in the family (i.e. "show me what happens when x occurs").
What is Enactment?
This term refers to a person’s ability to separate intrapersonal and interpersonal distress.
What is Differentiation?
In CBT, this is used to create rapport, which then allows for “real” interventions that will lead to change.
What is Empathy?
During Week 1, I included this meme to encapsulate my approach to teaching and evaluation (hint: Zariah called it "old").
Who is Chill Guy?
This refers to the unique set of behavioral, emotional and interactional norms that promote stability among families and social groups.
What is Homeostasis?
This occurs when family boundaries are too diffused, meaning there is little distinction between individual members.
What is Enmeshment?
A type of family tree or genealogy that specifically maps key multigenerational processes that illuminate for both therapist and client the emotional dynamics that contribute to the reported symptoms.
What is a Genogram?
CBFT therapists frequently use this to help structure the relationship and to increase client’s motivation and dedication.
What is a Written Contract?
A key concept that differentiates family therapy from individual therapy is a focus on _______ patterns instead of individual content.
What is interactional?
These questions help assess and make overt the overall dynamics and interactive patterns in the system.
What are Circular Questions?
This occurs when family boundaries are overly rigid, thus creating emotional distance and a lack of connection between members.
What is Disengagement?
An emotionally engaged stance that is nonreactive, as in the therapist does not react to attacks without careful reflection.
What is a A Nonanxious Presence?
These are long-held beliefs that shape how we interpret everything we experience, especially in relationships.
What are Schemas?
A ______ therapist is someone who admits that handling diversity issues is a career-long struggle and journey that adds depth to the person-of-the-social worker
What is competent?
Within a family system, this means new information is coming in and the system is changing.
What is Positive Feedback?
This approach may involve asking family members to change seats, move further apart or closer together, separate sessions, asking a member to remain silent, asking questions to highlight the boundary problem area, and blocking interruptions.
What is Boundary Making?
The process in which a dyad draws in a third person to stabilize it or alleviate tension.
What is Triangulation?
An example of a cognitive distortion, this term refers to a belief based on little evidence, such as assuming your child is trying to hide something because they did not answer your call.
What is Arbitrary Inference?
I am referencing this cultural icon when I ask you to "clap if you understand."
Who is Wendy Williams?
During the early stages of counseling, there may be shifts in the family structure, but the underlying family rules remain the same, which is called this.
What is First-Order Change?
This technique is used to realign boundaries between subsystems and is when therapists use their own expert position to temporarily 'join sides' with scapegoated individuals or subsystems that are in need of stronger boundaries.
What is Unbalancing?
He was a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist who developed one of the most influential theory of family and natural systems.
Who is Murray Bowen?
A behavioral intervention where an agreement is made between two parties (i.e. therapist and client or within families) to reinforce specific behaviors with rewards or consequences.
What is Contingency Contracting?
What is my soap box?