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Reframing (systemic) is constructed of 3 main ideas

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  1. People often see experiences in categories
  2. Once a category is decided it is hard to see other options
  3. Yet, once a second category is found (using ‘fact’) it is hard to see the original
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Reframing is found in most types of ________

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Systemic Family Therapies

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What is Reframing (Positive Connotation - Milan Reframe)

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Finding an alternative yet equally plausible explanation for a situation

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What are Circle Questions?

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Asking questions to get the family to understand a broader context
- and reframe the situation without the therapist having to outright reframe it

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Types of Circle Questions

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  • Behavioural Sequence questions
  • Behavioural Difference questions
  • Comparison/Ranking questions
  • Before-and-After questions
  • Hypothetical circular questions
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Directives are the most common yet misunderstood technique (T or F)

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True

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Give an example of a Directive

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Ex. Instead of asking a couple to stop arguing, ask them to set a 5 minute times
- Directives are not logical, they break up IPs

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How did the Milan start?

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An unpaid group met weekly to discuss a new technique of meaning and ritual

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Who came up with the IP Scope?

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Karl Tomm –> (Tomm’s IPs)
- pioneer of family therapy

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Main goal/view of Systemic and Strategic Therapy

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  • Solve the presenting problem seeing it as a relational/interactional issue, NOT individual
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4 Steps of Systemic Therapy

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  1. Access interaction pattern and meaning
  2. Intervene by interrupting the pattern
  3. Evaluate outcome and client response
  4. Interrupt new pattern
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8 Aspects to Therapeutic Relationship (RAIN SH MC)

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  1. Respecting and Trusting the System
  2. Adapting to Client Language and Viewpoint
  3. Neutrality
  4. Irreverence
  5. Maneuverability
  6. Helplessness - One-Down Stance
  7. Social Courtesy
  8. Collaboration
    (RAIN SH MC)
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Interaction Pattern Cycle (4 stages)

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  • Homeostasis
  • Tension Rises
  • Symptom
  • Tension Subsides
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What are Invariant Prescriptions

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Interventions that do not change between family - often for anorexia or schizophrenia

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What is Dangers of Improvement involve?

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Asking the client what potential issues could arise during treatment or resolutions

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What is Restraining/Going Slow do?

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  • “immunizes against setbacks”
  • If they listen they are cautious, if not they are working harder at achieving the goal (win-win)
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What are the 3 main phases of Structural Therapy

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  1. Join family - build alliance
  2. Map family - evaluate and assess
  3. Address and intervene
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What are Enmeshment/Diffuse Boundaries?

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Unclear boundaries between member causing a lack of individuality - too collective

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What are Disengagement/Rigid Boundaries?

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Strong individual boundaries that can isolate members of the family from emotional connection- too individual

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Goal of Structural Therapy

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  • to modify functioning so the family can solve their own problems - restructure boundaries and hierarchy
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What is the enactment technique?

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Requesting the family acts out an argument or situation

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What are the “3 dance moves” of enactments

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  1. Observing natural/spontaneous interactions
  2. Invite family to enactment (elicit transactions)
  3. Redirecting alternatives
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What are Cross-generational Coalitions

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  • Subsystems that form between parent and child against parent/key caretaker
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What are the 3 types of Hierarchies

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  1. Effective (authoritative)
  2. Insufficient (permissive)
  3. Excessive (authoritarian)
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What is Crisis Induction
- "turning up the emotional heat" to clearly display the issue for those who avoid or ignore it
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What is the goal of Unbalancing
- restructure subgroups to decrease roles like scapegoat
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Who coined Intergenerational Therapy
Bowen
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What is the main concept of Intergenerational therapy
- Unresolved emotional attachment to one’s family must be resolved before one can – differentiate a mature, healthy personality Goal - Increase differentiation and decrease anxiety
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What are the two competing forces of Intergenerational Therapy
Togetherness + Individuality
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What is Differentiation of Self?
- Degree to which one balances emotional and intellectual functioning and intimacy - Ability to think and reflect – to not respond automatically to emotional pressures
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What is Multigenerational Transmission Process
- Emotional processes from prior generations are present and “alive” in current family emotional system
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What is Emotional Triangle
When two member include a thrid member to stabilize it - Ex. Teaching a mother better parenting techniques won’t resolve the problem if she is over-involved with her son as a result of her husband’s emotional distance
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Everyone triangulates to some degree (T or F)
True
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Problem with Emotional Triangulation
The dyad (two members) will never solve their problem with the involvement of the third
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What is Emotional Cutoff
- no longer emotionally engaging with another in order to manage anxiety - often due to low level of self-differentiation but sometimes needed
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What is Family Projection Process
- The process by which parents transmit their lack of differentiation to their children
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Children develop characteristics based on sibling position (T or F)
True
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CBFT greatest influence has been on the area of _____
Parenting
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4 Step process of CBFT
1. Assessment of baseline functioning 2. Target behaviours and thoughts for change (identify specific) 3. Educate on irrational thoughts 4. Replace and Retrain (ATER)
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CBT therapist use empathy for a different reason than humanistic therapists (T or F)
True
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Why do CBT therapist use empathy
To create rapport to get "real" with client
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Who came up with strategies for fostering a therapeutic alliance (CBFT)
Judith Beck
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What are 8 Cognitive Distortions
1. Arbitrary Inference 2. Selective Abstraction 3. Overgeneralization 4. Max/Minimization 5. Personalization 6. Dichotomous thinking 7. Mislabelling 8. Mindreading
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What are the 3 types of Schemas about?
- self - others - life
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What experiment represents classical conditioning
Pavlov's dog (bell salivation)
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Who represents operant conditioning
B.F. Skinner
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3 Key factors affecting reinforcement/punishment
1. Immediacy 2. Consistency 3. Intermittent Reinforcement
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What are the 4 ways of shaping behaviour
Positive/Negative Reinforcement Positive/Negative Punishment
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What is Contingency Contracting
- a written agreement between two parties, specifying desired behaviours, rewards, and consequences
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What does "quid pro quo" mean + example
"this for that" - Ex. if you set the table, I will do the dishes
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4 Methods of Psychoeducation
1. Problem-oriented 2. Change-oriented 3. Bibliotherapy (ex. self-help books) 4. Cinema (ex. documentaries)
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What does Ellis' A-B-C stand for?
Activating event Belief about the meaning Consequence (emotional and behavioural)
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Common thought about Ellis' A-B-C
Most people think A=C
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What are the 3 types of solution therapies
1. Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) 2. Solution-oriented therapy 3. Solution-oriented Ericksonian Hypnosis
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Who used brief and trance/hypno therapy
Milton Erickson
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What does MRI stand for
Mental Research Institute
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Pro of Solution Based therapy
Cost effective with minimal sessions so insurance companies and funding were on board
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Solution based therapies focus on _______ and ________
Client strengths and exceptions to the problem
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What is the 3D Model
Dissociate, Disown, and Devalue - conceptualizes affects of trauma and abuse
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Solution-based therapy intervention strategies (8)
- Goal/Positive Language - Miracle (or solution-generating) questions - Scaling questions - Weekly homework tasks - Presuppositional questions/talk - Utilization - Coping questions - Compliments and encouragement
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What are Presuppositional Questions/talk
Questions that assume a solution is attained or goal is met Ex. WHEN the problem is solved, what will you do to celebrate?
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What is Utilization
Using any strengths or leverage the client has given you to help
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What are the 3 categories of clients from low to high motivation
Visitor Complainant Customer
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What does the Zen view or Beginners mind mean
- Looking at things with an open, curious, and unbiased perspective - do not assume parts of the client's story or experience

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