Treatment modalities
This model of therapy de-emphasizes the family's problem or its cause
What is Solution Focused Therapy?
Theoretical lines of demarcation in a family that define a system as an entity, separate subsystems from one another and the system from it's enviornment.
What are Boundaries?
Often thought of as the father of family therapy.
Who is Nathan Ackerman?
What is anxiety?
Body language, stance and preferred physical distance.
What are proxemics?
Dysfunction in this model is thought to come from boundaries that are either too rigid or too diffuse.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
A system's tendency to break down over time.
What is Entropy?
Created psychodrama.
Who is Jacob Moreno?
What are Ethics?
Communication about communication.
What is meta-communication?
A modality that theorizes that problems often stem from an attempt to hide primary emotions and a need for attachment.
What is emotionally focused therapy?
Another term for reciprocal or circular causality.
What is recursiveness?
This person was a well known hypnotherapist in Phoenix.
Who is Milton Erickson?
In general, a maneuver on the part of a therapist to test a hypothesis and/or promote change.
What is an intervention?
A system's tendency toward growth, creativity, change and innovation.
What is morphogenesis?
A couple's treatment model derived from years of research on what differentiates a happy couple from an unhappy couple destined to divorce.
What is Gottman's Couples Therapy?
Self correcting mechanisms by which families attempt to adjust deviations from established patterns.
What are Feedback loops?
This person is known as the father of general systems theory.
Who is Ludwig von Bertalanffy?
A temporary or permanent connection between two persons.
What is a dyad?
Models by which incoming information is perceived, understood, transformed and stored together with a corresponding repertoire of behavioral responses.
What are cognitive maps?
The four pillars of this modality are Phenomenology (focusing on immediate experience); the Dialogical relationship (emphasizing authentic connection); Field Theory (viewing context as interconnected) and Experimentation (using action-based exercises for awareness)
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Refers to the notion that different end states can occur from the same initial conditions.
What is Equipotentiality?
They developed "invariant prescription" to counteract "the dirty game".
Who are Selvini Palazzoli and Prata?
What is distancing?
Body movement.
What is Kinesthetic communication?