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General systems theory
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Defines a system that is maintained by components interacting
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Open System
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continuously receives input from and discharges output to the envionrment
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Homeostasis
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Tendecny of a family to act in ways which maintain the familys equilibrium or status quo
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Cybernateics
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Feedback loop system by which a family gets information to maintain equilibrium
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Gregory Bateson
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Applied Cybernetics fo family systems
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Negative feedback loops
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reduce deviation and help a system maintain its equilibrium
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Positive feedback loops
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amply deviation or change and disrupt the sytem sometimes positive feedback loops can promote appropriate change
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Circular causaility
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symptom regards as part of an ongoing circular feedback loop
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Conjoint family therapy
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Both members of the couple or the entire family are seen at the same time by the same therapists
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Concurrent family therapy
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one therapist sees all family memebers in individual sessions
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Collaborative family therapy
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Different family therapist sees each family member but the therapist meet periodically to discuss their clients and the family as a whole
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Network family therapy
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the family therapists works with the entire "network" of significant people in the client's life such as family members, friends, neighbors
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Multiple couple or family therapy
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Serveral couples or families meet as a group with a therapist or cotherapist
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Nathan Ackerman
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Psychodaynamic Family therapist
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Psychodynamic Family Therapy
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Integrating psychoanalytic principles with systems theory
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Homeostasis Ackerman
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Funciton as allowing the family system to adapt in a controlled way to change homeostasis is dynamic rather than static
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Social Roles Ackerman
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bridge between the processes of intrapsychic life and social participation semipermeable membranes
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Role complementarity
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family roles must allow for mutual support, dependence and intimacy among family members
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Ackermans view of maladaptive behavior
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mental illness consists of three componeents intrapsychic interpersonal psychosocial patterns
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Therapeutic Goals of Ackerman
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Create a new way of living
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Ackerman therapeutic techniques
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shaking up preexisting pathogenic relationships and alignments to open the way for healthier bonds
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Roles Ackerman Therapist
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activator, challenger, confronter, supporter, interpreter, integrator
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Underlying assumptoins
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Mental Research Institute described the double-bind ccommunicaton
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Assumptions of communication interaction family therapy
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People are always communicating even if they are doing nothing
All communication has a report and command function command function is often non verbal |
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Family Rules
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Assist with family homeostasis
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Symmetrical communications
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reflect equality between the communicators and may become highly competitive
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Complementary communications
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Reflect inequality between the communicators and maximize their differences
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Principle of equifinality
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no matter where in a system change occurs the result will always be the same
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Circular model of causality
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regards a symptom as both a cause and an effect of dysfunctional communication patterns
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Dysfunctional Communication Patterns
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blaming and criticizing
mindreading making incomplete statements making statements which imply change is impossible overgeneralizing |
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Therapeutic Techniques of family
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Direct and Non Direct
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Direct Therapy techniques of Family Therapy
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Pointing out famly members problematic
Teaching family communication Interpreting interactional patterns |
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Indirect Therapy techniques for family therapy
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therapeutic double bin like prescribing the symptom or relabeling
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Prescribing the symptom
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instructing the famly to continue to engage in dysfunction
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Relabeling
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changing the label attached to a problem by the family to change its label.
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Murray Bowen
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Father of Extended Family Systems therapy
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Extended Family Systems Therapy
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Functioning of the extended family and its members in terms of eight interlocking concepts
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Differentiation of self
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Person's ability to separate his or her intellectual and emotional functioning
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The _____________ the personsl level of differentiation the more likely the client will be __________
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lower fused
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Undifferentiated family ego mass
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family whose members are highly emotional fused
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Emotional Triangles
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when a 2 person husband and wife, parent child, experiences instability a third person is recruited into the system
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Lower Differentiation =
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more fusion and family dysfunction
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Emotional cutoff
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dysfunctional methods used by children to free themselves from emotional ties to their families.
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Multigenerational transmission process
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Severe dysfunction is viewed as the result of the escalation of a familys dysfunctional system through several family generations
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View of Maladaptive Behavior for Extended Family therapy
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Behavioral disorders are a a result of a multigenerational transmission process transmitting low levels of differentiation
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Bowen Therapeutic Techniques
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The therapist becomes the third person and forms therapeutic triangles maintaining neutraility
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Structural Family Therapy
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Families respond best to interventions using a here and now, directive and concrete approach
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Father of Structural Family Therapy
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Salvador Minuchin
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Minuchin family system
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family is more than the individual biopsychodynamics of its members
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Minuchin Family Structure
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All families are believe to have an implicit structure which determines how family members relate to one another
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Minuchin Subsystems
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Parent to child, husband to wife
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Maladaptive behavior according to Strucutral Family Therapy
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Viewed as the result of an inflexible family structure which prohibits the family from adapting to maturational and situational
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Structural Family Therapy Goals
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The goal is to restructure the family therapist may use other techniques
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Structural Family Therapy Techniques
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1. Joining the family
2. Evaluating the family Structure 3. Restructuring the family |
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Joining the family
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Structural Technique where the therapist joins the family in a position of leadership involves blending with the family as well as tracking
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Tracking
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identifying and using the family values, life themes, and significant life and mimesis
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Mimesis
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adopting the famlys manner
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Evaluating the family structure
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involves the therapist evaluating family structure and forming a diagnosis
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Restructuring the family
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Unbalancing the familys homeostasis to facilitate transformation of the family structure
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Enactment
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family members are encouraged enact relationships for identification and alteration
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Jay Haley
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Strategic Family Therapy Therapist
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Strategic Family Therapy
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combines communication/interaction and structural family therapy
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Maladaptive Definition for Strategic Family theapy
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How a person utilizes communication techniques to control other member of the family. Families become pathological when one or both parties denies his or her intent to control the other person
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Therapeutic Goals of Strategic Family Therapy
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alleviating current symptoms through altering a family's organization or structure
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Strategic Family Counseling Techniques
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Active Take Charge Role used a variety of strategies tailred to the family and its particular problems
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Most important session
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The first session of Strategic family counseling
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Four Stages of First Strategic Family Session
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1. Social
2. Problem 3.Interaction 4. Goal Setting |
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Pardoxical Interventions or orderal
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use a clients resistance against them. encourage them to do the opposite of the therapeutic goal.
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Contextual Therapy
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Emphasized ethical elements of family development and behavior trust loyalty and relational ethics
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Contextual Maladaptive behavior
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Lack of trust and loyalty within the family
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Contextual Therapy Goals
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Restore loyalty, trust, and ethics
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Contextual Techniques
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Exposing hidden emotional conflicts.
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General systems therapy treats the family as a ________
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System
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Extended Family Systems Therapy theorized by
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Bowen
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Working from the extended family theory often involves the construction of a
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genogram
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Structural family therapy associated with__________ involves boundaries. Boundaires may be too diffuse resulting in _______________ or too rigid resulting in
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Minuchin, emeshment disengagementq
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