Co-author with Carl Whitaker of The Family Crucible, and a scholar-practitioner of symbolic-experiential family therapy.
Who is Gus Napier?
100
The order in which children are born in families.
What is birth order?
100
The goal of this approach is to transform the system by bringing about structural change within the system, modifying the family’s transactional rules, and developing
more appropriate boundaries.
What is structural family therapy?
100
Adler’s use of early memories as
individual projective tests that reveal the client’s
phenomenological world.
What are early recollections?
100
Relabeling individual or family behaviors, symptoms, problems, or processes to highlight the good intentions behind them or to make them more amenable to change or therapeutic intervention. Used across models, Adlerians tend to use it to highlight good intentions or motives; Satir tends to use it to generate new awareness or possibilities in
communication; and structural and strategic family therapists tend to use it to describe symptoms or
What is reframing?
200
The founder and developer of conjoint family therapy and the human validation process model.
Who Virginia Satir?
200
A family structure characterized by diffuse internal boundaries with one or more family members being emotionally reactive, overly concerned, and overly involved
in other members’ lives.
What is enmeshment?
200
This theory attempts to change the individual in the context of the family system.
What is Bowenian/multigenerational family therapy?
200
Formal, structural maps formalized and developed by Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson, that are used to describe families over several generations and that code the emotional/affective and transactional relationships that exist in families. These are commonly used with Bowenian Family therapy.
What are genograms?
200
directives that either counter the families own paradoxical living or change the positive feedback loops that maintain or escalate the presenting problems.
What are paradoxical interventions?
300
A founder and developer of narrative therapy. Living in Australia, he is a collaborator with David Epston from New Zealand.
Who is Michael White?
300
Satir’s concept of stress positions that she refers to as blaming, placating, super-reasonable, and irrelevant. Congruence is the antidote to the stress stances.
What are communication stances?
300
To develop with families specific changes in process that are designed to replace mistaken goals with those that favor functional family interactions.
What is Adlerian family therapy?
300
From solution-focused and solution oriented therapy, the therapist asks clients to imagine how things would be if they woke up tomorrow and their problems were solved. Used to identify goals and desired solutions. The miracle question is similar to Adler’s concept called “The Question.”
What is the miracle question?
300
The use of books or other written materials as a supplement to family practice.
What is bibliotherapy?
400
Founder and developer of structural family therapy.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
400
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively what one thinks and feels in a manner that is appropriate to the context in which the communication is offered.
What is congruence?
400
The goals of this family model are clear communication, expanding of awareness, enhancing potentials for growth, especially in self-esteem, and coping with the demands and process of change.
What is the human validation process model?
400
Arranging the family members in physical postures that represent how each person feels and the relationship that each has to the others.
What is family sculpting?
400
A method of relational questioning developed by the strategic therapists in Milan that brings out differences among family members. Example: “What do you expect your
mother will do when you and your father get into a fight?”
What is circular questioning?
500
The co-developer of solution-focused
therapy.
Who is Insoo Kim Berg?
500
Problems are present life situations experienced as emotional discomfort with self, and in relation to others.
What is solution-focused family therapy?
500
The goal is to promote the feeling dimension: spontaneity,
creativity, the ability to play, and the willingness to be “crazy.”
What is strategic family therapy?
500
A technique that requires family members to act out a conflict that would happen at home.
What is an enactment?
500
Assessing the family atmosphere and family interactional
patterns by asking the family to describe a typical day.