Theory
Key Figures
Interventions
Key Concepts
Super Hard
100

This theory assesses the nature of boundaries, hierarchy, and roles of the family members.

Structural Family Therapy?

100

This theorist developed Structural Family Therapy

Salvador Minuchin

100

This theory would externalize the problem.

Narrative Family Therapy

100

Core beliefs about the world, the acquisition and organization of knowledge are referred to as...

Schemas

100

The goal of this therapy is to resolve any emotional or social disruptions within the patient’s life and improve the quality of attachment with others. 

Attachment therapy

200

This theory creates caring therapeutic relationship, or holding environment to analyze the intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics that are source of symptoms.

Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic Family Therapy?

200

Name one of the theorists that believes the therapist's role is to use their own personality in session and be open and spontaneous.

Carl Whitaker or Virginia Satir

200

Therapists conduct a baseline assessment of
functioning, which provides a starting point for
measuring change. Ask clients to log the frequency, duration, and severity of specific behavioral symptoms.

Monitoring and tracking

200

This term is used to describe when a family resists change by returning to its pre-threatened steady state.

Homeostasis

200

This therapy uses mindfulness and emotional regulation as an intervention in therapy.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

300

This theory uses genograms as an assessment and tool. 

Bowen Family Therapy

300

This theorist developed the Human Validation Process Model 

Virginia Satir

300

This therapy uses enactments as an intervention in therapy. 

Structural Family Therapy

300

What is the ability to maintain self in the face of high anxiety/maintain autonomy in highly emotional situation is...

Differentiation

300

What therapy refers to a safe and nurturing environment called "holding environment"

Objects Relation Therapy

400

This theory believes family problems are rooted in suppression of feelings, rigidity, lack of awareness, and emotional deadness.

Experiential Family Therapy

400

This theorist believes therapists should assess family's emotional reactivity, ways that they manage anxiety, and inter-generational patterns. 

Murray Bowen

400

What type of therapy would you be conducting when primarily using your use of self and use of a co-therapist as an intervention in sessions?

Experiential Family Therapy

400

Rules for managing physical/psychological
distance in family members. Define regulation of closeness, distance, hierarchy, and family roles.

Boundaries

400

An attachment-based model of therapy that draws on the power of emotion and attachment to build secure bonds between people who matter to each other.

EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)

500

Name two of the four categories/philosophical foundattion of family therapy theory.

Modern, Systemic, Post-modern, Humanistic

500

A CBT theorist that works with couples and assess using the "four horsemen." 

John Gottman

500

When trying to understand relational functions to unbalance and restructure a family, you might draw a...

Structural Map

500

Name three of the five communication stances in Satir's Growth Model theory...

Congruent, placator, blamer, superreasonable, and irrelevant

500

This theory uses scheduling pleasant events as an intervention in therapy. 

Social Exchange Theory