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Family Systems Theory Flashcards

1
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Why you should make the family of your patients your friends

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Triadic relationship
Illness' impact on family
Family's impact on illness
Family as therapeutic ally
Family as life enhancing
Family can compete or co manage
Family decides
Doctor is automatically and implicitly a part of the family system
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An entity composed of discrete parts which are connected in such a way that a change in one part results in changes in all the parts

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System

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3
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Criteria for membership in a family

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emotional significance

enduring ties

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Types of changes in the system

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Linear vs Circular thinking

Equilibrium vs. Homeostasis

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Type of thinking wherein A affects B who affects C

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Linear thinking

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Type of thinking wherein changes in A affect several member in the system and the effects propagate

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Circular thinking

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A balance or stability that the system tries to attain when changes are introduced, the system tries to return to the previous equilibrium or a new equilibrium

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Equilibrium

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The tendency to resist changes within the system, neutral to whether the change is good or bad for you

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Homeostasis

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Different “Medical Roles” in the family

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Family Physician
Nurse or First assistant
Specialty consultant
Medical board of directors

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“Medical Role” in the family wherein the person gives a diagnosis

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Family Physician

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“Medical Role” in the family wherein the person helps the sick patient

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Nurse/First assistant

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“Medical Role” in the family wherein the person is approached when others are unsure how to proceed

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Specialty consultant

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“Medical Role” in the family wherein the person dictates who gets admitted in the family

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Medical Board of Directors

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Normal Triangulation

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Third person as mediator

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Harmful triangulation

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Detouring of conflict
Symptom carrier
Identified patient
Family hero

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The third member of the triangle serves as a means of diverting attention from the real problem

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Detouring conflict

17
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A member of the triangle manifests a symptom as a result of a problems in a triangular relationship

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Symptom carrier

18
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Prevents the family from breaking up

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Family hero

19
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A triangle relationship wherein the relationship alliances are not consistent and change from situation to situation

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Karpman’s Drama Triangle

20
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Alliances in families that are formed for the purpose of decision-making

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Coalition

21
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Has to do with the emotionality present in the family

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Resonance

22
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Connected and emphatic resonance

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Enmeshed

23
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Distant relationship with little emotional connection

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Disengagement

24
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Types or rules

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Overt or Covert

Clear, rigid or diffused

25
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Rules that are explicitly enforced in the family

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Overt

26
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Rules that are implicit, unsaid but still expected

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Covert

27
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Govern rules between members of the system

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Boundaries

28
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Negotiable rules that are discussed between two members

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Clear Boundaries

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Non-negotiable rules

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Rigid boundaries

30
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Boundaries characterized by allowable intrusions, sometimes masquerading as dysfunctions

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Diffused boundaries

31
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Relationships where much of the boundaries are diffused

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Overinvolved

32
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Behavioral patterns in the family that repeat over time

The behavioral skeleton around which family life is built

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Family structures

33
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F. Landa Jocano’s Traditional Filipino Kinship systems General characteristics

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1) First duty is to kin
2) Utang na loob
3) Modesty, show less negative feeling in public
4) Dignity and honor

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