What is the role of the therapist in transgenerational therapies.
Coach, direct but non confrontational; detriangulated from family fusion. Aids family in developing relational fairness.
100
What is the role of the therapist in experiential therapies?
Egalitarian, active facilitator providing family with new experiences through the therapeutic encounter.
100
What is the role of therapist in structural therapy?
Active, stage director manipulates family structure to change dysfunctional sets.
200
What is the assessment procedures
Unstructured; no privileged position over client's views; do not believe in expert position or correct view of objective reality
200
What are assessment procedures in strategic therapy?
Unstructured; search for family's repetitive, destructive behavior patterns and flawed solutions that perpetuate the presenting problem.
200
What are the assessment procedures for transgenerational therapies?
Family evaluation interviews with any combination of family members; genogram. Attention to intergenerational indebtness
200
What are the assessment procedures for experiential therapies?
Unstructured, search for suppressed feelings and impulses that block growth and fulfillment.
200
What is the assessment procedures for structural therapy?
observation of family transactional patterns for clues to family structure, family mapping, enactments, tracking
300
What are the key methods of intervention
Externalization of restraining problem, redefining it as outside the family and unwelcome; search for new options and unique outcomes; use of definitional ceremonies, letters, and supportive leagues.
What are the key methods of intervention in transgenerational therapies?
Teaching differentiation; individuation, taking I stands, reopening cut-off relations with extended family. Balancing family ledgers.
300
What are key methods of intervention for experiential therapies?
Confrontation to provoke self-discovery;self-disclosure by therapist models desired behavior, exercises (sculpting, family reconstruction) to uncover previously unexpressed inner conflicts.
300
What are the key methods of intervention in structural therapy?
There is an attempt to achieve cognitive change and give new meaning to co-constructed alternative stories.
400
Is there a focus on insight or action in strategic therapy?
Action-oriented; symptom reduction and behavior change brought about through directives rather than insight and understanding.
400
Does trangenerational therapies focus on insight or action?
Rational processes used to gain insight into current relationship and intergenerational experiences; leaders to action with family of origin.
400
Do experiential therapies value insight or action?
Self-awareness of one's immediate existence leaders to choice, responsibility, and change.
400
Does structural therapy value insight or action?
Action precedes understanding; change in transactional patterns leads to new experiences and corresponding insights.
500
What are the goals of therapy
Separating person from the problem; liberating effort; reenvision past and rewrite future.
500
What are the goals of treatment in strategic therapy?
Symptom relief, resolution of presenting problem.
500
What are the goals of therapy for transgenerational therapies?
Anxiety reduction, symptom relief, and increased self-differentation of individuals leads to family system change. Restoration of trust, fairness, ethical responsibility.
500
What are the goals of therapy in experiential therapies?
Simultaneous sense of togetherness and healthy separation and autonomy. Genuineness, learning to express one's sense of being. Building self-esteem, relieving family pain, overcoming blockages to personal growth. overcoming negative interactive patterns.
500
What are the goals of treatment in structural therapy?
Restructured family organization, change in dysfunctional transactional patterns, symptom reduction in individual members.