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The family is understood best by conceptualizing it as a complex, dynamic, and changing collection of parts, subsystems and family members
What is Family Systems Theory?
This focuses on the inequality of power between men and women in society and in family life.
What is Feminist Theory?
This therapy's sessions follow a specific sequence of phases, and practitioners use bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, to help the client process unresolved memories from adverse experiences.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)?
This therapy utilizes externalization to separate the person from the problem.
What is Narrative Therapy?
An altered state of consciousness caused by little more than the power of suggestion.
What is Hypnosis?
An evidence-based therapy for several disorders. It can help to reduce distress and improve your ability to function.
What is Cognitive-Behavior Therapy?
Bowlby defined this as a 'lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.'
What is Attachment? (Attachment Theory)
To focus less on reacting to something or someone and more on observing and accepting without judgement.
What are Mindfulness-Based Therapies?
Coping questions can help demonstrate to those in therapy their resiliency and the number of ways in which they are capable of coping with challenges in their lives.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
Adler was a pioneer in the area of holistic theory on personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology, and this psychology places its emphasis on a person’s ability to adapt to feelings of inadequacy and inferiority relative to others.
What is Adlerian Psychotherapy?
This type of therapy focuses on how early childhood and relations with others can affect our development.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
This focuses on emotions and the way we deal with them. It also puts emphasis on the self and the importance of past relationships.
What is Emotion-Focused Therapy?
It is used to explain patterns of change, the dynamic nature of families, and how change occurs within the family life cycle.
What is Family Developmental Theory?
Therapists may use pagers/phones to notify the client to acknowledge their current moment in life and record positive implications of the activity.
What is Positive Psychology?
This perspective is grounded in the belief that people are innately good.
What is Humanism?
This theory holds the holistic view that people are intricately linked to and influenced by their environments and that all people strive toward growth and balance.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Using this, a child or youth may be able to express their experiences and feelings, deal with emotional problems, increase self-awareness, manage behavior, develop social skills, cope with symptoms of stress and trauma, and restore a sense of well-being.
What is Play Therapy?
An offshoot of psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes interpersonal relations, primarily in the family and especially between mother and child.
What is Object Relations?
A psychodrama session is typically executed in three phases: the warm-up phase, the action phase, and the sharing phase. Through role and drama-based play, the protagonist and other participants develop insight into past issues, present challenges, and future possibilities.
What is Experiential Therapy?
Edward Thorndike, an educational psychologist whose work formed the foundations of connectionism, was also a proponent of this perspective, arguing that psychology should focus only on that which is observable.
What is Behaviorism?
This theory is designed to improve relationships and communication within the family structure by addressing a person’s actions, emotions, and perceptions as they relate to that person’s dynamic within the family unit.
What is Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy, or the Satir Method?
This teaches mindfulness skills to help individuals live and behave in ways consistent with personal values while developing psychological flexibility.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
This focuses on the structural properties and important social functions performed by the institution.
What is Structure-Functionalism Theory?
In Dream Analysis, a person in therapy relates a dream to the therapist, discussion and processing follows, and new information is gleaned from the dream.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This perspective holds both a person's individual sense of reality and the meaning found in life to be constructed from life experience, rather than discovered.
What is Constructivism?