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Group & Family Therapy Flashcards

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This term describes the act of cutting off contact with family to reduce or manage the anxiety and conflict. This can create isolation and emotional significance on future relationships.

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Emotional Cutoff

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In this intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), the family acts out a particular problem, shedding light on the structural dysfunction.

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Enactments

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Who developed Structural Family Therapy?

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Salvadore Minuchin (sounds like an architect’s name)

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This short term therapy is the most empirically validated couples and family therapy to date.

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)

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A key concept of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is defined as the fundamental emotional reactions in response to a situation (like sadness in response to loss)

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PRIMARY emotions

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This type of group involves PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS, COUNSELING AND PSYCHOEDUCATION

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Short-term

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) involves breaking existing dysfunctional interactional sequences by using a new sequence.

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Invariant Prescriptions

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This family therapy was developed by GREENBERG and JOHNSON but it’s early founders were WHITAKER and SATIR

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)

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A key concept of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is defined as emotional reactions to thoughts and feelings. Ex: feeling guilty about feeling angry

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SECONDARY emotions

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This term is defined as: any unit structured on feedback (ex: family)

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System

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This intervention of EFT is described as: connecting on a deeper level

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Empathic Attunement

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This occurs when boundaries are diffuse and results in a loss of autonomy. There is an over-dependence on one another (ex: parents not allowing siblings to work out their minor differences or a mother telling the child about her marital problems).

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Enmeshed Family (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This stage of group, they’re looking at whether or not they’ve accomplished their goal.

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Final Stage

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In this stage of groups, there is FORMING in and out. Orientation to the group.

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Initial Stage

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when the client engages in an unpleasant activity if they engage in a problematic behavior

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Ordeals

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In this stage of group, members identify fears and challenges. Deal with ambivalence. Investment by members. Using “I” statements. Members determine the safety level of the group. CHECK-IN strategy.

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Transition Stage

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Examples of this type of group includes AA and NA

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Support/Self-Help

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When 2 undifferentiated people form a dysfunctional pattern and function as a single emotional system

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Fusion

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This therapy believes that dysfunctional family patterns of behavior are embedded within the family. The families perpetuate this through their actions which are misguided attempts at solving the problems.

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Strategic Family Therapy

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This occurs when boundaries are very rigid, resulting in a high degree of personal autonomy. Families become unaware of the impact on each other and have more dependence on outside systems (ex: parents who are not involved with a troubled child)

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Disengaged Family (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when the symptomatic person like anxious person is asked to PRETEND to exhibit those symptoms exaggerated/over the top so that they appear to be on a more voluntary basis. Another approach is to ask the person to do something they normally wound’t do.

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Pretend Technique

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as superficial behavioral changes which do not change the structure due to underlying systemic rules not being changed.

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First-order Changes

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In the Modifying Problematic Interactions intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), this term describes trying to change hierarchal and relationships of subsystems

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Unbalancing

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This type of family therapy is derived from the work on feedback loops, double blinds, cybernetics, homeostasis, and circular causality by Bateson

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Strategic Family Therapy

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as all families encounter difficulties but the determining factor of whether or not it becomes a problem depends on the response of the family members. This can lead to them repeating the same cycles and escalation of that problem.

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Circular Causality

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In this intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), a therapist is an ARCHITECT of the interactions (ex: boundary making- trying to change distance between a meshed or disengaged subsystems)

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Modifying Problematic Interactions

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This term describes the way that parental undifferentiation is transmitted to children. Usually the most vulnerable and unprotected child is the one targeted.

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Family Projection Process

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In the Modifying Problematic Interactions intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), the therapist finds a theme identified in communications.

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Tracking

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This is the term that describes when dysfunctional patterns occur from one generation to another

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Multi-generational transmission process

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One of the Attachment Styles of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is when people demand reassurance in an aggressive and controlling way

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Anxious attachment

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A key concept of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is characterized as abandonment, betrayal and a violation of trust

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Attachment Injuries

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In this intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), the therapist maps family structure with symbols to help broaden the problem. A straight line is rigid, a dashed line for clear boundaries.

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Structural Mapping

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In the Modifying Problematic Interactions intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), we reinforce new and desirable patterns of phrasing family members for success

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Shaping Competence

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when instead of the problem controlling the family members, the therapist gives certain directives to gain a sense of control over that problem.

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Place the problem under the family’s control

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The GOAL of this type of therapy is to create an effective family structure with functional subsystems and clear boundaries. A strong parental hierarchy is stressed.

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Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin

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One of the Attachment Styles of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is when a person can express their primary emotions

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Secure attachments

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This term describes what defines and stabilizes the family to include each individual’s role, their hierarchy, and power along with how they communicate with each other.

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Structure (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is when the members are given an illogical intervention which is a contradiction to the goals but does bring about positive change

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Paradoxical Technique

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The leaders of this family therapy were Jay HALEY and Cloe MADANES

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Strategic Family Therapy

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as the theoretical study of control processes in a system.

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Cybernetics

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Name the theorist who emphasized understanding family through a MULTIGENERATIONAL framework

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Murray BOWEN in SYSTEMIC FAMILY THERAPY

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What theorist and under what therapeutic factor says “I must take response-ability for the way I live my life”?

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Yalom’s existential factor

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as information about assistance output is continuously re-introduced back into the system initiating a change of subsequent events.

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Feedback Loops

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as in-depth behavioral change that does require a fundamental revision of the system structure and functioning (ex: changing the rules of the family system so there is a different level of functioning)

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Second-order Changes

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Yalom’s top 3 therapeutic factors:

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Catharsis
Self-understanding
Interpersonal Learning

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This term describes the process that people select partners with equivalent levels of differentiation

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Nuclear Family Emotional System

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Who is the founder of Systemic Family Therapy and Family Systems Theory?

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Murray Bowen

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This type of group focuses on LEADERSHIP TRAINING

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Target/Work Groups

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In this stage of group, there is a focus on the “HERE AND NOW”.

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Initial Stage

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This term describes a dysfunctional alliance between two members against a third.

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Coalition (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This intervention of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) involves performing a series of actions that gives the members a sense of belonging.

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Rituals

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The goal of this type of family therapy is to expand the constricted emotional responses that create negative interactions and restructure that partners can be more accessible and response to each other and foster more cycles of caring.

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)

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The goal of this type of family therapy is to alter problematic patterns of behavior that maintains the family’s dysfunction by using a strategic directive as known as _____ ______

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Strategic Family Therapy

Behavioral Tasks

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In this stage of group, there are clearer goals, members are helping each other and there is less reliance on the leader

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Working Stage

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These can be either physical or emotional or both. These protect the members and should be flexible and allow members a sense of personal identity.

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Boundaries (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This type of group has it’s roots in medicine and evolve around understanding self and others. They use PSYCHOANALYTICAL approaches

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Long-term (psychoanalysis goes all the way back to childhood and these issues develop over years/decades)

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In this stage of group, members review what has been learned and discuss application

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Final Stage

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In this stage of group, PERFORMING near and far. Working out what kind of goal they want to do. Getting some ownership of their group experiences, being more honest and having the highest level of TRUST among each other.

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Working Stage

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One of the Attachment Styles of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is when primary emotions CANNOT be accessed

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Insecure attachments

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Interventions of this type of family therapy include: reflective statements, evocative questions, creative images/metaphors, encouraging acceptance, and creating intimate attachments

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT)

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One of the Attachment Styles of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT) is when people who have been traumatized frequently fluctuate between attachment and hostility.

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Vacillating attachment

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This term is defined as: a psychotherapeutic endeavor that focuses on altering the interactions between and among family members, seeking to improve relations as well as functioning

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Family Therapy

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This term describes the smaller units that carry out tasks for functioning of the overall family. Families are made up of a number of these units to help them relate to one another (ex: spousal, parental, extended family)

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Subsystems (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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This key concept of Strategic Family Therapy (Haley and Madanes) is defined as what families seek in an effort to ensure a very stable enironment

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Homeostasis

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In the Modifying Problematic Interactions intervention of Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin), the problem is recasted in a new light in order to modify interaction

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Reframing

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In this stage of group, STORMING top to bottom. Often conflict between group members occurs here.

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Transition Stage

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This theory is based on the fact that one must understand how the family operates together in order to understand any of its individual parts or individual family members. “No person is an island”

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Family Systems Theory

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Cross generational, schism, and skewed are 3 types of what?

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Coalitions (Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin)

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