Definitions
Units in families determined by age, gender, and function
Subsystems
The leading therapy approach used in the 1980's
Strategic Therapy
(T/F): Perhaps the most significant aspect to consider for children's adjustment when integrating blended families is pace of change
True
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship
Double-bind
This pioneer was "anti-theory"; believed theories impacted creativity and intuition of the therapist
Carl Whitaker (Experiential)
Family sculpting, role playing, and family art therapy are interventions used in what approach?
Experiential
Pessimistic and blaming accounts that bring clients to therapy, which often keeps them stuck (Narrative)
Problem-saturated stories
Name the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling
Technique of personifying problems as external to the person
Externalization
In Solution-Focused Therapy, these types of questions are designed to help talk about vague topics & when it is challenging to identify concrete changes or goals
Scaling Questions
An intervention used by Structuralists, which a therapist directs family members to demonstrate how they handle a particular problem
"Getting people to talk positively will help them think positively and ultimately act positively" is a framework used in which approach?
Solution-Focused Therapy
An inappropriate alliance between parent and child, who side together against a third member of the family
Cross-generational coalition (Structural)
According to Solution-Focused Therapy, this type of client is someone who is not really in the market for therapy and is there because of someone else
Visitor
The process by which individuals remove themselves from the emotional field of two others (Bowen)
Detriangulation