Family Systems Theory
This concept refers to the tendency of families to resist change and maintain stability.
What is homeostasis?
This theorist developed Family Systems Therapy and introduced differentiation of self.
Who is Murray Bowen?
The ability to fully attend to and understand clients' messages.
What is active listening?
A visual family map showing relationships across generations.
What is a genogram?
Counselors should understand these shared beliefs, customs, and practices of a group.
What is culture?
These define emotional and physical limits between family members and subsystems.
What are boundaries?
This therapist is known for Structural Family Therapy.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
Demonstrating understanding of a client's feelings and experiences.
What is empathy?
This intervention asks family members to act out interactions during a session.
What is role-playing?
This factor often influences family roles, rituals, and decision-making.
What is religion or spirituality?
A smaller unit within a family system, such as siblings or parents.
What is a subsystem?
This experiential therapist emphasized family communication and self-esteem.
Who is Virginia Satir?
This skill involves gathering information to understand family dynamics.
What is assessment?
Questions designed to explore relationships and perspectives among family members.
What are circular questions?
Counselors should be aware of these expectations associated with masculinity and femininity.
What are gender roles?
This process occurs when tension between two people is diverted through a third person.
What is triangulation?
This therapist helped develop Strategic Family Therapy.
Who is Jay Haley?
A technique that changes how a situation is viewed to create new meaning.
What is reframing?
A solution-focused technique that asks clients how life would change if the problem disappeared overnight.
What is the miracle question?
Families relocating to a new country may experience this type of stress.
What is acculturation stress?
The idea that family members influence one another in reciprocal patterns rather than simple cause-and-effect relationships.
What is circular causality?
This therapist is associated with Narrative Therapy and the idea that "the person is not the problem."
Who is Michael White?
The counselor's ability to recognize and effectively work with diverse cultural backgrounds.
What is cultural competence?
In Structural Family Therapy, this intervention changes family interactions by altering relational patterns.This later-life stage often involves retirement, caregiving, and loss.
What is enactment?
This counseling principle requires adapting interventions to fit clients' cultural contexts.
What is culturally responsive counseling?