A person's functioning is the result of continuous, reciprocal interaction between behavior and its controlling social conditions.
What is behavioral therapy?
100
This key figure was born in Argentina. Working with families with multiple problems, he devised a brief, direct, concrete,action-oriented model that effected change through restructuring.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
100
This model uses in-session directives and homework to interrupt repetitive problematic interactional sequences.
What is strategic therapy?
100
This intervention is a staged effort by the therapist to bring an outside family conflict into the session in order help the family modify the interaction and create structural changes.
What is an enactment?
100
A series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a family's life, offering a schema for viewing a family system proceeding through time.
What is the family life cycle?
200
Changes in the family organization must happen for symptom relief; individual symptoms are rooted in the family's transactional patterns.
What is structural therapy?
200
This key figure used psychoanalytic concepts as a basis for his model, particularly looking at the ways families manage anxiety through a balance of togetherness and individual self-differentiation.
Who is Murray Bowen?
200
This model believes that lack of differentiation in family members leads to problems through increased anxiety and fusion in family members.
What is transgenerational or Bowen Therapy?
200
The process of withdrawing from a family (or any relationship) role of buffer or go-between so as not to be drawn into alliances with one against the other.
What is to detriangulate?
200
A philosophical outlook influencing the field of family therapy that rejects the notion that there exists an objectively knowable universe discoverable by impartial science, but instead posits that there are multiple views of reality.
What is postmodernism?
300
Current family patterns are embedded in unresolved issues in the family-of-origin which may show up as symptoms.
What are transgenerational (or Bowen) therapies>
300
These four psychoanalytically trained therapists developed their model based on Bateson's ideas of circular epistemology. Their model eventually became known as systemic family therapy.
Who are the Milan group? (Selvini-Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin and Prata)
300
This model believes maladaptive behavior in an individual is maintained by current reinforcements from others, or though maladaptive cognitive schemas.
What is behavioral/cognitive behavioral therapy
300
This intervention helps families view the problem or symptom as occurring outside of themselves, in an effort to mobilize them to fight to overcome it.
What is externalizing?
300
These are considered temporary or superficial changes within a system that do not alter the basic organization of the system itself.
What are first-order changes?
400
Problem-saturated stories people tell themselves organize their experience and shape consequent behavior.
What is narrative therapy?
400
These two leading figures at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee developed a short-term, solution focused model widely practiced today.
Who are Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg?
400
These models believe current problems are based on past "stories" that influence choices and behavior.
What are social constructionist or narrative models?
400
This type of question asks clients to quantify their perception of a situation, and to then consider how they might either achieve one number more or cope with a back-slide.
What are scaling questions?
400
The view that causality is non-linear, occurring through a series of interacting loops; an event is never caused simply by the previous event but through a recurring chain of influence.
What is circular causality?
500
Redundant communication patterns and repetitive interactional sequences are the focus of this model.
What is strategic therapy?
500
This Australian was drawn to using a narrative metaphor for therapy; he developed a philosophy and set of techniques consistent with helping client's re-author their lives.
Who is Michael White?
500
This specific time-limited strategic model believes most problems develop through mishandling of normal difficulties in life. The attempted solutions, such as "more of the same" are seen as the way problems develop.
What is MRI Brief Family Therapy- Mental Research Institute Brief Therapy approach?
500
This intervention involves asking each family member questions that address a difference or define a relationship between two other members The intent is to reveal the multiple perspectives of family members and expose recursive patterns.
What is circular questioning?
500
The idea that there can be no outside independent observer of a system; any one attempting to observe and change the system is both a participant of the system and is changed by that system.