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19 Cards in this Set
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Family System
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self-regulating, interdependent network of feedback loops guided by members' rules; behavior of each person affects and is affected by the behavior of another
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Games
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sequences of behavior governed by rules
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Family Homeostasis
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tacit collusion of family members to maintain the status quo
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Symptom strategy
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ascribing our silence to something beyond our control and makes communication justifiably impossible
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Content
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report part of a message; what is said verbally
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Relationship
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command part of a message; how it's said nonverbally
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Metacommunication
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communication about communication
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Punctuate
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interpreting ongoing sequence of events by labeling one event as cause and the following event a response
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Symmetrical interchange
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interaction based on equal power
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Complementary interchange
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interaction based on accepted differences of power
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One-up communication
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conversational move to gain control of the exchange; attempted domination
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One-down communication
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conversational move to yield control of the exchange; attempted submission
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One-across communication
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conversational move to neutralize or level control within the exchange; when just one party uses it, interchange is labeled transitory
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Enabler
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within addiction culture, a person whose nonassertive behavior allows others to continue their abuse
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Double bind
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person trapped under mutually exclusive expectations; powerful party in complementary relationship insists that the low-power party act as if it were symmetrical
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Reframing
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process of instituting change by stepping outside of a situation and reinterpreting what it means
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Addiction model
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assumes alcoholism and other addictions are diseases to be cured rather than character disorders to be condemned
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Whole-message model
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regards verbal and nonverbal components of a message as completely integrated and often interchangeable
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Equifinality
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systems-theory assumption that an outcome could have occurred due to any or many interconnected factors rather than being a result in a cause-effect relationship
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