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Theory
Key Terms
100

One of the founders of family therapy, reported that he could not fit old theories and traditional individual therapy concepts into his new experiences and had to find rationale from own experiences and reflections

John Elderkin Bell

100

Occurs when husband and wife fail to accommodate and consistently attack each other for children's affections

Marital Schism

100

When there is skepticism that spirituality can influence mental health, the recommendations are:

Seek opportunities to learn about the integration of science and spirituality

100

Therapists need to be cognizant and respectful of clients with different points of view, and in the case of _____ different expressions of attachment

Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT))

100

The use of _______  often makes the therapist’s comments easier to accept.

Humor

200

______ was a daring and innovative clinician who promoted the open and honest expression of feelings and the confrontation of issues within the family. He was known for his use of wit and charisma to enable families to develop new ways of relating;

Nathan Ackerman 

200

is a model or conceptual scheme through which people make sense of such things as “reality” or “the world.”

paradigm

200

When you think of living in America versus the country of your heritage, what are the main differences? This is use when 

Assessing cultural factors or background 

200

Access the unacknowledged feelings underlying interactional positions is a step in this manual

Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) step by step treatment manual 

200

Within a family system are smaller, self-contained, but interrelated _______? 

subsystem 

300

In addition to being one of the founders of the strategic school of family therapy, ____ served equally important roles as both a promoter and synthesizer of the ideas in family therapy and a critic of the mental health establishment.

Jay Haley 

300

is a set of elements standing in interaction. Each element is affected by whatever happens to any other element.

System

300

Being aware of their own cultural values, beliefs, and biases that are based on their own and their clients’ cultural backgrounds, is an example of?

Cultural Competence 

300

Views families and emotional distress from an organizational perspective: Individual problems are maintained not through personal pathology, but rather through flaws in a family’s organizational design.

Structural Family Therapy 

300

Abstract or physical dividers between or among systems and subsystems. Also defines who is part of and who is not part of a particular system. 

Boundaries 

400

_______ a social worker, was known for her unparalleled clinical intuition and capacity to see the unlimited potential that exists within all families. She is considered by many to be the founding mother of family therapy.

Virginia Satir

400

is the process in which family therapists let their clients know that they understand them and are working to help them

Joining 

400

What does the acronym P.U.S.H. stand for?

Protection, Unit, Sequences of Interaction, and Hierarchy 

400

According to Whitaker’s Symbolic-Experiential Approach what are the four stages of therapy?

Pretreatment or engagement phase, middle phase, late phase, separation phase

400

Individuals outside of one’s biological family that one chooses to also consider family.

Family of Choice 

500

In 1951, ______ began hospitalizing children with schizophrenia and their mothers at the Menninger Clinic, hoping to observe and eventually treat this phenomenon.

Murray Bowen

500

overgeneralization is a __________ in which the individual observes one instance of an event and views it as representing a general characteristic.

Cognitive distortion 

500

Four major movements that influenced the creation of family and marriage therapy?

Early Social Work, Sexual Reform Movement, Marriage Counseling and The Family Therapy Movement 

500

______ directs the client’s attention away from the presenting problem and toward the absence of that problem

Solution-focused and solution-oriented, or possibility therapy

500

A reciprocal sequence of events whereby one event modifies another event, which in turn modifies another event, which eventually modifies the original event.

Circular causality