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The style of communication where the context and other are acknowledged, but the self is not.
Placater
The style of communication where the context and self are acknowledged, but the other is not.
Blamer
What Satir is known (labeled) for.
The Mother of Family Therapy
The ultimate goal of therapy.
Growth.
The style of communication where the context is acknowledged, but the self and other are not.
Computers
Satir's diagnostic approach is ___________ & strengths-based.
Nonpathologizing.
Diagnostics are systemic in nature and expanded to the system, not any one individual.
The vehicle in which the child learns about relationships, gender behavior, and communication.
Triad (primarily the mother-father-child triad).
Role of the therapist
Makes full use of herself
Serves as a camera (reporting what she sees and hears and how she interprets the observations)
Serves as a model of communication
Serves as a resource
Guide
Helping clients experience the different aspects of their personalities and enable them to see how they operate as an integrated whole.
Parts Party
Congruent communication includes balancing ____, ____, & ______.
Self, others, & context.
Prior to developing her model, Satir was the Clinical Director at which institute?
MRI Brief Therapy Center (MRI Group in Palo Alto).
The goal of experiential therapy (overarching, not specifically Satir).
to "unblock honest emotional expression in families...and to open individuals to their inner experience...helping them be more fully human."
Assessment is geared toward three themes.
1) The family system's symptomatic behavior.
2) Communication patterns and stances.
3) The influence and exploration of family of origin issues.
Theory of dysfunction
Dysfunction in the family is viewed by the avoidance of feelings, low self-esteem, and destructive communication patterns. Symptoms are the result of a blockage.
Low self-esteem negatively affects the couple's ___________. The person with low self-esteem has a conflict between his/her self-image and the image of a competent adult and will attempt to close the discrepancy by way of their partner, whether _______ or _______.
Interactions;
Covertly or overtly
Describe the intervention called "temperature reading."
Asking family members to explore and express their hopes and wishes, thoughts and feelings, and show their appreciation of one another, while being able to discuss complaints and solutions.
Four primary assumptions.
1) People naturally tend toward positive growth.
2) All people possess the resources for positive growth.
3) Every person and situation both impact and are impacted by everyone and everything else.
4) Therapy is a process involving interaction between therapist and client, and in this relationship, each person is responsible for him or herself.
A developing child begins to make sense of her parents' behavior and differences toward one another which will ultimately serve as a road map for her relational behaviors towards others.
Model Integration Analysis.
The way one comments about thoughts and feelings in the presence of others along three dimensions: ________, _________, & _________. What is this termed?
Manifesting self.
Congruency (matching what one says and does with how one sounds and looks)
Delineation (the clarity in how one sounds, looks and what one does)
Completeness (wholeness and specificity of the message)
How did Satir describe establishing a therapeutic relationship?
Making contact, which refers to a series of connections both within the therapist and between the therapist and the other.
Explain the role of the symptom in the system.
Symptoms always have an emotional function in the family system, even if they are consciously and logically unwanted.
Satir questioned why this particular symptom in this particular family or relationship.
List the five styles of communication and describe at least three of them.
1) Placating - pacifying, smoothing over differences, being nice, being protective, defending others gently, covering up. Disregard their own feeling of worth and hand power over to another individual.
2) Avoiding (distracting/irrelevant) - being quiet, pretending not to understand, changing the subject, playing weak, playing helpless. May avoid conflict by taking on the placater, blamer, or computer role, but will quickly shift out of the stance prior to another's reaction.
3) Blaming - judging, bullying, comparing, complaining. Often disagrees with others and hold others responsible for things not going their way.
4) Computing (superreasonable) - using logic, lecturing, using outside authority. Often overly-rational, level-headed, analytical, and speak in a matter-of-fact manner.
5) Leveling (congruent) - "real" responding that is appropriate to the situation, verbally and nonverbally consistent.
List 5 of the 8 resources in the Self-Mandala.
Intellectual
Emotional
Sensual
Interactional
Nutritional
Contextual
Spiritual
List at least 5 "interventions" within the Vehicles of Change.
Therapist's self
Ingredients of an interaction
Facilitating emotional expression
Softening family rules
Communication enhancement: coaching, role play, and enactment
Sculpting or spacial metaphor
Touch
Family reconstruction
Parts party
Self-mandala
Temperature reading
Six-stage model of change.
1) Status Quo
2) Introduction of Foreign Element
3) Chaos
4) Integration of New Possibilities
5) Practice
6) New Status Quo
*In most cases, therapy will involve going through all six stages several times.