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the father of “individual psychology”

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Alfred Adler

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PACE

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aspects of therapeutic movement - Purpose, Awareness, Contact, and Experience

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division of the ACA for family counselors

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IAMFC - International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors

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the accrediting body for MCFC counselors

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COAMFTE - Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education

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american association for MCFC counselors

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AAMFT - American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists

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resiliency practice - 3 aspects

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emphasis on normalizing family process, activating ignored or denied individual and family skills and abilities, focusing on what works and avenues to desired solutions

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Object Relations Family Therapy - key figures

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David and Jill Scharff, Nathan Ackerman (inspired by Freud)

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Object Relations Family Therapy - what is it?

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psychoanalytic systems model; a longer-term therapy, using transference and countertransference to get at unconscious dynamics expressed by individuals in the intimate relationships and interactions of the family

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Adlerian Family Therapy - key figures

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Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs

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Adlerian Family Therapy - what is it?

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teleological (purpose-focused) approach that focuses on purposes of adult-child interactions. uses family constellation and birth order (Adler), interactive patterns, a typical day, and goal disclosures in redirecting and reorienting families. 4 goals of children’s misbehavior (Dreikurs)

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teleological

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explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve, rather than the cause by which they arrive (e.g., Dreikurs four goals of children’s misbehavior)

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Multigenerational Family - key figures

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Murray Bowen and Betty Carter

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Multigenerational Family - what is it?

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a multigenerational approach that looks for problem patterns across at least 3 generations. focuses on triangulation and failure to achieve a differentiated self (enmeshed); uses coaching to strengthen the strongest, most differentiated members of a family, believing that changing any part of the system will change the whole system

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Human Validation Process Model - key figures

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Virginia Satir, John Banmen, Jean McLendon

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Human Validation Process Model - what is it?

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originated as a communications-experiential model, focuses on the ways in which people communicate under stress, often adhere to inflexible family rules, and engage in the process of change. Uses reframing, congruent communication (same message on verbal and nonverbal levels), and family sculpting. Highlights good intentions, validates individual feelings, and engages families in the discovery and practice of new possibilities.

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Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy - key figures

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Carl Whitaker, David Keith

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Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy - what is it?

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existential model of family therapy. seeks to create new experiences in families through ply, seeding the unconscious, evolving family crises, and even creating family anxiety. Therapist approaches as a coach who is always willing to consider possibilities that are even more outrageous and anxiety-provoking than the family has experienced together so far (e.g., sister wants to sleep with other sister)

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Structural Family Therapy - key figures

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Salvador Minuchin, Harry Aponte

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Structural Family Therapy - what is it?

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first model to consider the importance of structure in the family and to create ways to assess and change systems, subsystems, power, boundaries, and alignments. Interventions: joining, reframing, enactments, unbalancing. Therapists give directives and take an active stance to change family dynamics.

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what did Lev Vygotsky believe?

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everything from thoughts and emotions to creativity developed in relationship to primary caregivers (now supported by neuroscience)

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name and define Brofenbrenner’s environmental systems

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microsystem - directly impact the child (family, school)
mesosystem - connections between microsystems (mother angry at school)
exosystem - link between environmental systems that do not directly involve the child (mother’s work leave policy)
macrosystem - social and cultural values
chronosystem - changes over time

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what is a “functional” family process?

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the processes are sucessful in meeting developmental demands, facing and handling normative and non-normative stressors, and helping families reach their shared goals.

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family resilience

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the ability to recover, heal, and grow after facing adversity or personal and often family challenges

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monads vs. dyads

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in family literature, monads = individuals; dyads = couples

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National Mental Health Act of 19XX
1946 - provided resources for research and training specifically to combat mental illnes
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3 attributes of pre-1940s mental healthcare
individualistic focus shifts in ways of thinking after WWII research on clinical work with people with schizophrenia and their families led to focus on the family
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1950s was the age of what in family therapy?
major pioneers (e.g., Bowen), beginning to establish theories for working with families
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1960s was the age of what in family therapy?
``` heavy hitters (Satir, Whitaker, Minuchin), focus on systems (from linear to circular causality) IDing family's tendancy to prefer homeostasis and how it can be altered ```
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what happened in the 1970s with family therapy?
membership surge in AAMFT, international influence (Milan Group), Feminist Family Therapy
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what happened in the 1980s with family therapy?
APA Division 43: Division of Family Psychology ACA Division: IAMFC Increased research in family therapy Professional legitimacy in the eyes of gvt (Public Health Service Act Title III)
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what happened in the 1990s with family therapy?
New approaches, including social constructionism
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What happend in the 2000s with famly therapy?
global professional expansion licensure or certification for MFTs in all 50 states Widespread accreditation more culturally effective family therapy developments
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cybernetics
a way of thinking and conceptualizing how systems work, how they self-regulate, and how they remain stable. Systems stabilize or maintain homeostasis based on feedback patterns
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circular causality
the idea that A causes B, which causes C, D, etc. Each entity acts upon and is affected by every other entity in the system. Vs. linear causality, where A causes B.
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closed system
fixed structure that creates a given outcome. a system that doesn't exchange any matter with its surroundings, and isn't subject to any net force whose source is external to the system (e.g., car)
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meta-message
directions about how content is to be taken
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feedback loops
a biological occurrence wherein the output of a system amplifies the system (positive feedback) or inhibits the system (negative feedback). Feedback loops are important because they allow living organisms to maintain homeostasis
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a positive feedback loop...
initiates change (AKA amplifying)
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a negative feedback loop...
deters change (AKA attenuating)
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first-order changes
superficial changes, really just ways in which the family system stays the same to maintain some constancy (homeostasis)
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second-order changes
changes in a family system that endure and transform family processes
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homeostasis
tendency of a family system to maintain internal stability and to resist change
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double binds
no-win situations: confronted with two irreconcilable demands or a choice between two undesirable courses of action. As with schizophrenic mothers and their children
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what is a system?
an interacting of units, parts, or persons that make up a whole arrangement or organization.
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open systems
systems in which all of the parts will contribute to all the rest of the parts (e.g., family). Has the ability to achieve a desired outcome in a variety of ways. As opposed to closed system.
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first-order cybernetics
the observer and that which is being observed are separate
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second-order cybernetics
the observer both influences and is influenced by the family
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what is the not-knowing position, adopted by postmodern therapists?
decentered
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Erikson's model of Family Life Development
8 stages; first 5 stages = individual development; last 3 = relational development
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Carter and McGoldrick's Family Life Development Model
est. 1999, 6-stage model of the intact middle class nuclear family that begins with the unattached adult and continues through retirement. Each stage involves adjustments, tasks, and changes for the individual to survive and thrive
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What are 6 Family Life Development Model Stages?
- Single Young Adult Leaving Home - New Couple/Joining Families Through Marriage - Families with Young Children - Families with Adolescents - Launching Children - Families in Later Life
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who said that the patient AND therapist need to be vulnerable to create change?
Baldwin and Satir
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countertransference
strong positive or negative feelings of the therapist that are triggered automatically
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wheel of influence
you go in the middle, with branches off with a family member's name, relationship, and one adjective to describe them. The spokes of the wheel are various lengths to indicate who you want to keep closer vs. at a distance.
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who developed congruence, and what is it?
Virginia Satir. Means allowing the full use of one's senses to become fully present. 'Hanging Hats' - close eyes and meditate basically to be aware of surroundings.
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holism
an understanding of human patterns and processes within the social contexts that support them
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should you give advice?
no, even if they ask for it. it's not counseling

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