THEORY OF
CHANGE
CHANGE
Problems are viewed as separate entities from the client and change occurs by creating a new narrative or story which emphasizes the client’s competencies and strengths.
NARRATIVE
Assists the client in recognizing these disempowering forces or influences which can ultimately empower the client.
FEMINIST THEORY
Token Economy
BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Identify unrealistic automatic thoughts and change them to create more positive and accurate schemas
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Placater, Blamer, Computer, Distractor are all styles of what?
Styles of Communication (Satir)
Change is believed to be constant, and the therapy focuses on the client’s strengths and resources in order to create a more effective future.
SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY
Work through emotional conflicts that are being avoided in order to create a sense of fairness and support among family members.
CONTEXTUAL THEORY
Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Help individuals learn more about themselves and their relationships, so they can assume responsibility for their own problems.
Bowen
a stance of no preconception for session, no hypothesis, diagnosis or directives.
Not Knowing Position (Collaborative Language System).
Change occurs by increasing client’s self-awareness, and challenging and modifying his or her fundamental premises, life goals, and basic concepts.
ADLERIAN THERAPY
Change occurs through awareness, acceptance, reflection, and regulation of emotions and views emotion as an agent of change.
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY
Create boundaries within the family system.
Structural Family Therapy
Gain insight and an understanding of oneself and others.
Constructivist Theory
This concept focuses on the best interest of each individual, even those who are not currently in the room to promote relational fairness.
Multidirectional Partiality (Contextual)
Anxiety is lowered within the current family system and between the current family and families-of-origin as a result of understanding multigenerational or current family dynamics.
BOWEN
Helps the family understand how family structure (relationships and hierarchies) can be changed. Explores the rituals and rules of the family. Explores how new patterns of interaction can be integrated into the family.
Structural Family Therapy
Transforming rules
Satir
Move from being out of control to being in control.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Alignments where two or more family members join together to form a bond against another family member.
Coalitions (Structural)
Change occurs by identifying individual and family relational patterns that allow personal growth, family connectedness, and create more effective ways of interacting with one another.
SYMBOLIC EXPERIENTIAL THERAPY
Utilize the principles for making a marriage work and adjust them to each couple’s particular patterns and conflicts.
Gottman Theory's
Adult children are encouraged to look at their parents as humans struggling with their own problems.
Contextual
The objective is to dissolve problems and the problem-determined system by co-creating new possibilities and perceptions of the old story through dialogue.
Collaborative Language Systems
Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
The Four Horseman (Gottman)