Communication
Leaving Home-Single young adults, Joining of families through new couple, Families with young children, Families with adolescents, Launching children, Families in later life
What are the Stages of Family Life Cycle?
Redundant behavior patterns by which a family abides - can be written, unwritten, stated, or unstated
What are Family Rules?
Individuals create their own reality/meaning or personal construct
What is constructivism?
Seeing the client alone and dealing with individual issues versus seeing the clients in relationship context (whether alone, couple, or with family)
What is individual therapy and family therapy?
Family Stability that is achieved by feedback
What is homeostasis?
How clients interact versus what the clients are saying
What is the process and the content?
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What is command and report?
The factors that maintain balance in a system - the study of feedback mechanisms in self-regulating systems
What is cybernetics
Interpretations and meaning are shaped by our context
What is Social Construction?
In one setting clients do not bring overall pre-formed context whereas in the other setting clients bring their own traditions, habits, and reference group.
What is group therapy and family therapy?
Major problem family therapy theories did not take into account before postmodern theories
What is gender, power, and diversity?
The second message in communication that often goes unnoticed
What is metacommunication?
Diverting conflict between two people by involving a third
What are Triangles?
Problems are sustained by an ongoing series of actions and reactions; problems are associated with prior events
What is circular causality and linear causality?
What are interactions?
The study of theories related to how people construct their own realities within their context?
What is postmodern theories?
Counseling interventions and theories based on research over time?
What are Evidence-Based Practices?
Receiving two related but contradictory messages
What is Double Bind?
Initial Phone Call, First Interview, Early Phase, Middle Phase, Termination
What are the stages of Family Therapy?
The organization of a family that interactions take place; a faction of the larger organization; invisible barriers that regulate the amount of contact one has with another
What is family system/structure, subsystems, and boundaries?
The process by which a system gets the information necessary to maintain a steady course
What are Feedback loops?
The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts; properties are lost when reduced to isolated elements
What is systems theory?
The behaviors that individuals take on in a family (whether other-prescribed, self-prescribed, or fall into)
What are Family Roles?
The person all on whom all problems are blamed
What is a scapegoat?
Reciprocity and evenly distributed roles (though not the same) are the defining features of the relationship
What is a complementary relationship?
Feedback that keeps the system from straying off mark to maintain homeostasis; Feedback that reinforces a new direction the system is taking
What is negative feedback and positive feedback?
Ethnicity, gender, generation, societal expectations, religion, background
What is Context of the family?