A method of relational questioning that brings out differences among family members.

Ex: What do you expect your mother will do when you and your father get into a fight?

Developed by strategi therapists in Milan

Development stages in a family's life.  The original family life cycle began when an individual separated from her or his family, then entered into marriage, had children, grew older, entered retirement, and finally faced death.

Carter and McGoldrick and used as foundation for Bowen family Therapy

Holistic psychology.

Focuses on the hear-and-now and the development of awareness and contact through experiments.

Process to help people reveal the feelings and beliefs about self that were part of every interaction, but often hidden

Satir

Master Gestalt therapists

wrote Gestalt Therapy Integrated

Parent education program that combines the work of Dreikus with communication models of Haim Ginott and Thomas Gordon

Developed by Dinkmeyer and McKay

One of the most referenced and most read books in all of family therapy

Napier and Whitaker

A term and process to help counselors look at multiple levels of individuals within families

Satir

A family that is emotionally fused or stuck-together - as in many schizophrenic families

Bowen's term

Strategic approach is based on ideas that the problem the family brings to therapy really is the problem and that everything the family has done so far has only served to maintain the problem.

A model of strategic family therapy

The pattern of environmental events and transitions that occur over the life of the individual and the family. 

In family therapy, we note the development of the chronosystem across the family life cycle.

A method of relational questioning that brings out the differences among family members.

Strategic therapist in Milan

Example:  What do you expect your mother will do when you and your father get into a fight?

A therapeutic stance in helping family members to differentiate. 

Assumed by Bowen and Whitaker used in relation to the family team.

The way in which people interact with self, each other, and the environment.

Central to Gestalt and experiential therapies

A directive that intends an interruption of the paradoxical family processes that keep and maintain a given problem.

Milan strategic therapists.

Example:  if the family process is seen as designed to maintain a depressed individual, a counter-paradox would be for the family to note change.

A functional human being who is able to use reason to overcome emotional reactivity and is able to remain clam and observant in an emotionally charged family atmosphere.

Bowen's term

Withdrawal and psychological isolation.  Disengagement results from rigid boundaries established by individuals or subsystems.

Disengaging family systems promote individuation at the expense of bonding, intimacy, support, and loyalty

Structural and strategic therapists

An automatic emotional response that were learned in old experiences with one's family of origin and are triggered in the present by similar people or circumstances.

Bowen

Following and uncovering of emotional content is often hidden from but present in individual family members.

Used by object relations family therapists

Directive to engage in a set of behaviors or interactions that will allow the therapist either to assess family process or work on restructuring or re-aligning the family.

Used by structural family therapy

impact on the child's development that results from environmental systems that do not directly involve the child or person. 

ex:  mom gets a promotion and not home as much and the father quits job to stay home.

What individuals or families do or what happens to them.

Central to Satir and Gestalt

Individuals and families emphasize experience and change rather than teaching or reorganization.

Applied to Satir's human validation process, Whitaker's symbolic experiential model and Gestalt.

Trying something out: one for of experience,

central to Gestalt Therapy

An intervention designed to name problems and locate them as outside agents working on individuals or families.

Narrative therapy

Adler's term for family system.

Toman's name for birth order descriptions: It is Toman's model that ws incorporated by Bowen in multigenerational family therapy.

Developmental stages in a family's life as proposed by Carter, McGoldrick, and Bowen family therapy. 

The original family life cycle began when an individual separated from her family then entered into marriage, had children, got older, retired, and then death.

process for recreating early family of origin experiences and transforming them so that individuals can see them with adult eyes and experience them in a new way. 

Designed to help individuals, especially family practitioners gain the perspective that Bowen associates with a strong differentiation of self. 

Satirs psychodramatic process

A biological model of living systems that maintain themselves in specific environments through continuous input and output.

Developed by von Bertalanffy

Formal, structural maps used to describe families over several genrations and that code the emotional/affective and transactional relationships that exist in families.

McGoldrick and Gerson developed.

A process by which the therapist accepts and accommodates the family or family members to win their confidence and sidestep resistance.

Structural family therapy process

Refers to the impact that occurs when microsystems interact.

bronfenbrenner

The idea that every message or communication has both content and a comment that indicates how the content should be received.  Satir looked at tone of voice and body language as a means of understanding metacommunication. 

Strategic family therapists look at the directives implied in communications as the metacommunication.

The idea that every message or communication has both content and a comment that indicates how the content should be received.  Satir looked at tone of voice and body language as a means of understanding metacommunication.  

Strategic family therapists look at the directives implied in communications as the metacommunication.

The development of multiple lenses or perspectives across models in family therapy.

internal family systems, tracking sequences, organization, development, gender, and multiculturalism and the lenses of a teleology and process.

All environmental, social, and political groups that directly impact the individual, especially a child during early development.

The family(nuclear, extended), the school, the neighborhood, friends, peers, religious affiliations and person's internal biology.

bronfenbrenner

This is a system that continuously exchanges feedback with its environment.  In family therapy, it is a metaphor for a family's willings to receive new information and adapt. 

general systems theory

The leadership and hierarchy of the family;

One of the metaframeworks.

process for integrating different parts of people's inner systems

Satir psychodramatic process

Given an opportunity and support, clients actually can develop a life that they choose and prefer over what they have been living.

Social constructionist

Central to Adlerian therapy.

It is what is intended or that which motivates, as in the goals of misbehavior in children or a discovery of the purpose of a feeling, such as anxiety.

Description of a child's body reflex (twinkle in eye) when a goal of misbehavior has been properly disclosed.

Having a group of observers share their reactions with the family after a session.  This team serves to provide clients with multiple perspectives and creates dialogues and dialogues about dialogues.

social constructionism. Tom Andersens

Relabeling individual or family behaviors, symptoms, problems ore processes to highlight the good intentions behind them or to make them more amenable to change or therapeutic intervention.

Adlerians - highlight good intentions or motives.

Satir - generate new awareness or possibilities or possibilities in communication

Structural/strategic family T use it to describe symptoms or problems in a more-human, everyday language.

placing family members in physical positions that depict emotional closeness and distance as well as common communications, interactions, roles, or alliances among members of the family system

Paa and used by Satire and Duhl

Placing family members in physical positions that depict emotional closeness and distance as well as common communications, interactions, roles, or alliances among members of the family system.

Satir and Duhl

Taking a family memeber's inference far beyond anything the family member normally would consider.  These psychological seeds suggest the forbidden, the taboo, the anxiety-provoking, and the hidden.

Whitaker's process

Believes social realities and experiences are co-constructed, as is the meaning that is attached to social interactions. 

This is a postmodern perspective.

Linguistic therapy, narrative therapy, reflecting teams, solution-focused and solution oriented therapies.

Bowen conceptualization of negative triadic process. In multigenerational family therapy, triangles always result in two-against-one experience. 

Triangulation is the invitation of a third member into a dyadic relationship for the purpose of diffusing or distorting the intensity of the pair's transactions.