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Bowenian Multigenerational Therapy
Strategic Therapy
Structural Family Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
100
A term describing the family into which the person is born or adopted.
What is Family of Origin
100
Use of language to give new meaning to a situation.
What is reframe
100
The founder of Structural Family Therapy
Who is Salvador Minuchin
100
The founders of Solution Focused Therapy
Who are Steve Deshazer and Insoo Kim Berg
100
The founders of Narrative Therapy
Who are Michael White and David Epston
200
The separation of intellect & emotional functioning, which results in being less reactive to family system dynamics & other member's emo states.
What is Differentiation of Self
200

Just a fun question

Maverick is (not the name of recent movie)?

Who is Dr. W's dog ? 

200
Overly restrictive boundaries in that little contact with outside systems is permitted. They have inflexible rules and habits that keep family members separated from each other. Family members become emotionally detached.
What is rigid boundaries
200
Asking families for a hypothetical solution to their problems. "If you were to wake up tomorrow and a miracle occurred and you no longer had this problem, how would your life be different?"
What is the miracle question
200
Separates the client from the problem -- sometimes giving the problem a name
What is externalization
300
A multigenerational schematic DIAGRAM of the family system to depict individual & relational characteristics & behavioral patterns.
What is a Genogram
300
The tendency within a system to seek and maintain balance by maintaining the current situation and resisting change.
What is homeostasis
300

Free points

FREE

300

Looking for the positive to the family's problem. "Tell me about the one time that you didn't argue and fight?"

What are exceptions

300
A contradiction to the problem story. An exception to the problem story. An entry point to an alternative story.
What is an unique outcome
400

A concept that describes a process by which two people will recruit a third person into the system to mediate the level of conflict or tension between them.

What is a trianglulation

400
Explains that behavior occurs in cycles and in a context, rather than as a result of cause and effect.
What is circular causality
400

An invisible set of functional demands, predictable sequences, and organized patterns by which family members associate with each other. Seen only through family interactions.

What is FAMILY structure?

400

Looking for the positive or the exception to the family's problem. "On a scale of 1-10, where do you see your relationship as a couple? What would it take to make it higher?"

What are scaling questions

400

A theory that states that language shapes reality.

Or

Our lives are.....

What is social constructionist theory

500
Emotional and/or Physical distancing from family relationships or a denial of their importance in order to avoid the pain of unresolved emotional conflicts, anxiety, and lack of differentiation.
What is Emotional Cut-off
500
An intervention that involves a seemingly illogical intervention to bring about change
What is a paradoxical intervention (therapeutic paradox)
500
A family system where boundaries are unclear or weak, creating a loss of individual self and ineffective subsystems.
What is enmeshment
500

These needed to be stated as clear, measurable, stated in the positive, and in behavioral terms

What are goals

500

Writing clients these based on the sessions -- serves as a reminder of the emerging new story

What are letters