Intro to Family Systems Therapy
The central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners (pg. 404)
What is the client's connection to living systems?
These are considered the first known practitioner's of family therapy (pg. 406)
Who are Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs?
This form of assessment uses shapes and triple parallel lines to indicate relationships (pg. 411-412).
What is a genogram?
Many ethnic and cultural groups place great value on this (pg. 415).
What is the extended family?
Everything begins with this.
What is a thought?
Family therapy perspective calls for this (pg. 404).
What is a conceptual shift from evaluating individuals to focusing on system dynamics?
The goal of this approach is to differentiate self within a system and to understand one's family of origin (pg. 407).
What is multi-generational therapy?
These are the two most common forms for facilitation of change (pg. 410).
What are enactments and assignments of tasks?
This individual has been the most influential leader in the development of both gender and cultural perspectives and framework in family practice within the field of family therapy (pg. 416).
Who is Monica McGoldrick?
If we let it, our mess can become this.
What is our message?
Ann has depression, lives with her parents, and has a successful older sister. A therapist may focus on obtaining an accurate diagnosis by using the DSM-5, while a systemic therapist may... (pg.405)
What is explore the system for family process and rules, perhaps using a genogram.
Detangling family interactions that involved two people by pulling a third person into the couple's problems and arguments (pg. 407).
What is triangulation?
Therapists begin to form relationships with clients at this moment (pg. 410).
What is the moment of first contact?
This sets the model for girls for generations to come (pg. 416).
What are the roles that women play in their families and the workplace?
Clients don't care how much you know until they know how much you...
What is care?
Systemic therapists believe this about clients (pg. 406).
What is that the individual's systemic affiliations have more power than a therapist could ever have?
The goals of this strategy include reducing symptoms of dysfunction (pg. 408).
What is bringing structural change by modifying the family's transactional rules and establishing more appropriate boundaries?
This can help reduce the anxiety the family may be feeling during their therapy sessions (pg. 410).
What is the therapist's focused interest on each family member?
This allows therapists and families to appreciate diversity and to contextualize family experiences in relation to larger cultures (pg. 416).
What is understanding cultures?
You cannot take a client any further than you are willing to...
What is go?
Considering Ann's situation again, an individual therapist might focus on the behavioral processes involved in Ann's coping, while a systemic therapist may...(pg. 405)
What is focus on the family relationships within which the continuation of Ann's depression "makes sense"?
This vein of therapy can be traced to the early 1960s (pg. 408).
What is structural family therapy?
A multilayered approach to family therapy is essential due to this (pg. 409).
What are our presuppositions about families?
The could clearly be a shortcoming in working with clients in extended families (pg. 417).
What is focusing primarily on the nuclear family?
Dr. Bland owns at least this many bowties...
What is 330?