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What is the rule for family and couple exam questions?

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Choose the correct “IDENTIFIED CLIENT”

It may be one member or more. Once you’ve chosen the identified client (ppl), your answer must match the identified client/s

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What is the Identified Family Member?

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Normally the one who is in crisis or is the center of the problem / AKA Hot Seat

For instance, if the “daughter” is the one with the problem, your answer should address the daughter, or if the entire family displays issues/problems, then your answer should address the family as a WHOLE unit

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What is Structural Family Therapy?

What is Enmeshment?

Who is the theorist?

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The goal is to promote restructuring the family system by establishing subsets/boundaries to avoid enmeshment

Enmeshment is defined as having no clear boundaries, overly dependent

Theorist - Munuchin

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What is Triangulation?

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When one family member communicates to another family member through a third family member

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What is the goal of couples therapy?

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Understand and resolve conflicts to improve the relationship

Same rules apply to couples

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What is a Paradoxical Directive?

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Instructing clients to continue their maladaptive behaviors with the goal of bringing about awareness and change

Ex: A method used in marital therapy: instruct the couple to continue bickering, to allow them to become aware of their behaviors and develop solutions