Foundations/Personality/Multicultural/Family Flashcards
Multigenerational Issues
The small differences in the levels of differentiation between parents and their offspring lead over many generations to marked differences in differentiation among the members of a multigenerational family.
Also multigenerational trauma.
Reframing
Identifying and then disputing irrational or maladaptive thoughts.
Bowenian Family Therapy
Key Concepts: Togetherness, individuation, differentiation, triangles, nuclear family emotional process, multigenerational transmission.
CPD: Fusion, lack of differentiation, ostracization, emotional reactivity
Mech of change: Explore family of origin anxiety, health attachment
Goal: differentiation, autonomy and relationship, balance of emotions and thoughts
Minuchin Family Therapy
Structural Family Therapy
Key Concepts: family structure, rules, subsystems, executive subsystem, boundaries.
Core problem dynamic: boundaries too rigid/diffused, incongruent subsystem, too rigid, conflict avoidance.
Mech of change: executive subsystem, support, clear structure
Goal: better structure so families can solve own problems.
Congruence and Incongruence
Congruence: the matching of experience and awareness
Incongruence: having feelings not aligned with your actions
MMSE
Mini mental status exam-
Quick and simple way to quantify cognitive function and screen for cognitive loss. Tests individuals orientation, attention, calculation, recall, language, and motor skills.
Personality Tests
Used to accurately and consistently measure personality constructs. MMPI-2 16PF PAI MCMI-IV
Motivational Interviewing
A directive client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence.
Miracle question
If you woke up tomorrow and a miracle happened what would be different?
I soo Kim Berg
MMPI-2 Validity Scales
VRIN- Variable response inconsistency TRIN- True response inconsistency L- Lie K- Correction F- Infrequency Fb- Infrequency back Fp- Infrequency psychopathology FBS- Fake bad scale
Sue and Sue’s Cultural Identity Model
Conformity Stage Dissonance Stage Resistance and Immersion Stage Introspection Stage Integrative Awareness Stage
Cross’s Black Racial Identity Development Model
- Pre-encounter
- Encounter
- Immersion/Emmersion
- Internalization
- Internalization/Commitment
Individuation
Jung: Achievement of self-actualization through a process of integrating the conscious and unconscious
Family: One’s unique self-identity, which is superheated from that of any other individual or family system
Levels of Prevention
Primary- Targets individuals who are at high risk for developing a disorder based on biological, social, or psychological risk factors. (Teaching emotion regulation skills to teens)
Secondary- seeks to diagnose and treat a disorder in its early stages (e.g. rape crisis counseling)
Tertiary- targets individuals who already have a disorder by seeking to reduce or eliminate the negative impact of the disorder (e.g. Alcoholics Anonymous)
Patterns of Communication
Passive
Aggressive
Passive-Aggressive
Assertive
