Family Therapy
These are the various stages of family life, each of which typically requires some structural modifications in the family
What is the life cycle
Why can emotional triangles be helpful?
What is let off steam at the moment, but end up freezing conflicts in place without resolution, undermining the relationship over time.
the emotional barriers that protect both the autonomy, functioning, and integrity of individuals, subsystems, and families.
What are Boundaries
schematic (symbolic) diagram of a family system that can reveal intergenerational patterns.
What is a genogram
Working with children and adolescents, as well as with teenagers can be considered
What is Cross-Cultural Counseling
to the capacity to think and reflect, rather than simply reacting automatically to emotional pressures
What is Differentiation of Self
This refers to the excessive emotional reactivity in a family.
What is fusion
invisible set of functional demands or rules that organize way family members relate to one another-
What is Family Structure
What do Solutiions Focused Therapists believe about people?
What is constrained by narrow views of their problems and that this perpetuates a rigid pattern of false “solutions”.
This does not necessarily apply to couples of the LGBTQS+ Community
What are the ‘default’ assumptions about commitments, boundaries, and roles often made by heterosexual couples
What are Differentiated people able to do?
What is able to balance thinking and feeling
This describes the way some people manage anxiety between generations.
What is Emotional Cutoff
Asking clients to imagine how things would be different if they woke up tomorrow and their problem was solved.
What is the miracle question
These people are not really in the market for counseling, they are often there to keep someone else happy
What are visitors
This targets the family as the primary recipient of mental health care.
What are home-based services
What motivated emotional triangles?
What is Anxiety
How is emotional cut-off different from mature differentiation
What is does not require geographical distance, the presence of a third party; or avoidance of conversation to ensure differentiation.
there is a loss of autonomy due to a blurring of psychological boundaries in a family unit
What is Enmeshment
These people have clear complaints, usually about someone else.
What are Complainants
family support services, therapeutic intervention, case management, and crisis intervention
What are the four elements of Home Based Services
What is it decreases anxiety between two by spreading it through three, making the burden more manageable.
The most basic essential technique in Bowen’s Family Systems Therapy
What is the use of process questions to explore what goes on inside people and between people.
this is psychological isolation that results in overly rigid boundaries
What is disengagement
These people have clear complaints and are ready to take action
What are Customers
The opportunity to show interest in the things that define their identity—children, pets, religious artifacts, mementos, awards, and so on.
What is Visiting a family at home