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"Exploration of her process' -- what theory?
Definition
Psychodynamic
Term
"Miracle question,"
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
1. Engagement
Definition
phases of Narrative Therapy
Term
2. Data Collection and Assessment (questions designed to generate new learning, opening space, and highlighting change)
Definition
phases of Narrative Therapy
Term
3 types of Directives
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
3. Planning, Contracting and Intervention
Definition
phases of Narrative Therapy
Term
A family's faulty communication is evidence of dysfunctional relationships
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Abrupt endings are avoided
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Late Stage Consolidation
Term
Accept positive and negative parts so that one can be integrated
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Acceptance of what "is" leads to change
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Action oriented family therapy
Definition
Structural
Strategic
Term
Activate dominant functional patterns
Definition
Structural Goal
Term
Active Listening
Definition
Humanistic Existential Beginning
Term
Active and directive
Definition
Satir
Structural
Strategic
Term
Actively seeking to bring positive moments to the clients’ attention
Definition
Solution Focused Interventions
Term
Acts as a researcher helping families be researchers in their own way of functioning
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Adapt to change
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Goals
Term
Address any remaining active symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, using reattribution techniques (attributing it to something else rather than blaming self) if self-blame is present. Reattribution techniques are used when observing a pattern of incorrectly assigning the blame or responsibility for adverse events to oneself. For children who were physically or sexually abused, this is a common pattern even though these events were beyond their control.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral End
Term
After discovering the hidden meaning his newly authored stories have for Dan, have Dan re-tell stories in therapy to find additional ways of expressing the story.
Definition
Narrative Therapy End
Term
Aggression
Definition
Gestalt
(basic biological energy underlying personality)
Term
Alleviate symptoms
Definition
Structural Goal
First Order Change
Term
Alliances and coalitions
Definition
Structural
Term
Alter symptom to more functional level
Definition
Strategic Middle Stage
Term
Alternative stories emerging
Definition
Narrative
Middle
Term
Alters triangles; commenting on observations promote marital dyad communication
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Ambiguous directives
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
An individual's symptoms are rooted in family's interaction patterns
Definition
Structural
Term
Anticipate comeback of problem
Definition
Narrative Late
Term
Anticipate problems related to termination and relapse
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral End
Term
Anxiety -- Fear and apprehension resulting from attempt to resolve conflict
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Artwork/ sandtray to externalize problem
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Ask questions that personify the problem
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Ask the family to role play a conflictual situation that occurs at home.
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
Asking client what is already working to manage her mother better.
Definition
CogB: A way to identify reinforcement or extinction strategies that are already working.
- Solution Focused
- Post Modern
Term
Assume responsibility for one's life
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Attention to cultural considerations and metaphors
Definition
Structural
Term
Augment emotion (to absurdity)
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Awareness
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Bad faith (choosing to be unaware and denying being unaware)
Definition
Humanistic/ Person Centered
Term
Balance between sharing and autonomy
Definition
Experiential Satir Late Consolidation
Bowen
Term
Be interested in what ideas Dan is drawing on and how his early life ideas or "stories" might be influencing his sense of himself, his ideas about relationships or choices in the world.
Definition
Narrative Therapy Beginning
Term
Bibliotherapy
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Bowen Early Intervention
CogB
Term
Boundaries
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Object Relations
Term
Boundaries: preserve autonomy of subsystems
Definition
Structural
Term
Boundary making (separate subsystems) -- restructuring subsystems
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Caring/ sharing days
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Intervention
Term
Cathexis
Definition
Object Relations
- refers to the moment when an object or experience is imbued with an emotional charge
- process that attaches psychic energy, essentially libido, to an object, whether this is the representation of a person, body part, or psychic element.
Term
Challenge Dan's progress and inoculate him against relapses
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral End
Term
Challenge client to self support
Definition
Gestalt Late
Term
Challenge family structure
Definition
Structural Middle Intervention
Term
Challenge in family structure must occur for symptoms to change
Definition
Structural
Term
Challenge symptom
Definition
Structural Early Observation phase Goal
Term
Change occurs by carrying out therapist's directives, not through insight
Definition
Strategic
Term
Change patterns that maintain individual symptoms
Definition
Structural Goal
Term
Change/ reframe view of problem
Definition
Structural Goal
First Order Change
Term
Children are not drawn into family pain
Definition
Experiential Satir Late Consolidation
Term
Circulate alternative story
Definition
Narrative Late Stage Goals
Term
Circulating
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Circulation
Definition
Narrative
- giving the stories an audience
Term
Clarification
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Clarify boundaries
Definition
Object Relations
Structural
Term
Clarify communications
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Clarify relational boundaries/ roles
Definition
Structural Goal
Term
Clarifying: therapist acknowledges need to project/ disown parts to preserve self-esteem
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Client talks to therapist, not family
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Clients are encouraged to communicate directly, rather than deflecting the anxiety through another person
Definition
Bowen Interventions
Term
Coach one to one relationships
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Intervention
Term
Coalition games
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Cognitive Rehearsal
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Late
Term
Comment on family's attempt to control therapist and each other
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Communicate clear congruent messages
Definition
Experiential Satir Late Consolidation
Term
Communicate clear, congruent messages
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Goals
Term
Communication/ process
Definition
Satir
Term
Community of concern
Definition
Narrative Late
A therapy group can become one where everyone shares their story
Term
Completion of unfinished business
Definition
Gestalt Late
Term
Compliance-based (assigning tasks)
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Confirmation -- looking for positive attributes
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Confront the images and situations associated with the trauma that may be avoided because of the anxiety they elicit
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Confrontation
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Satir Early
Term
Confrontation
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Psychodynamic
Object Relations
Term
Congruence
Definition

Humanistic

Satir

Term
Congruent communication
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Connection of thoughts,emotions, behaviors
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle Stage Application of techniques
Term
Consistency and predictability molded by therapist
Definition
Psychodynamic Early Assessment
Object Relations
Term
Contain crisis
Definition
Narrative Early Stage Goals
Most theories
Term
Content and metacommunication
Definition
Strategic
Term
Continue gathering family information
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Intervention
Term
Coping questions -- become aware of internal/ external resources
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Create new problems
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Creates a new problem that leads to resolution of presenting problem
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Deconstruction
Definition
Narrative
Term
Deconstruction (taking it apart and looking at it)
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Decrease any reliance she has on pain medications by utilizing chronic pain management techniques
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Decrease health related worrying and increase ability to cope with new symptoms
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Delivery of feedback
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Description of complaint
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Description of problem clarified
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early Stage Assessment/ Intervention
Term
Detriangulate
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Stage
Term
Detriangulation
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Goal
Structural
Term
Develop empathic relationship with members
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Term
Develop healthy communication patterns
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Develop more adaptive functioning to changing circumstances/ stresses
Definition
Structural Goal
Term
Dichotomy
Definition
Gestalt
(A split in which competing forces aren't integrated)
Term
Differentiate between thoughts and feelings
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Intervention
Term
Differentiation
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Goal
Term
Differentiation; teaching differences between thinking/ feeling promotes autonomy with "I" statement
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Difficulties occur when several factors converge & overwhelm family's coping mechanisms
Definition
Strategic
Term
Dimension of self is considered that prevents change from occurring
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Term
Directives
Definition
Satir
Strategic
Term
Directives to family
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Strategic
Term
Directives: "look at each other"," speak louder"
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Strategic uses directives too
Term
Discontinue treatment digressively
Definition
Structural Late Consolidation
Term
Discover what family of origin agendas are projected onto current family
Definition
Psychodynamic Goal
Object Relations
Term
Disengaged/ Enmeshed
Definition
Structural
Term
Disrupt defenses
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Psychodynamic might do this too
Term
Doesn't have "stages" of beginning, middle, and end
Definition
Humanistic
Term
Downward arrow technique and guided discovery
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle Stage Application of techniques
Term
Educate on developmental stages/ life cycle tasks, grief work
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Intervention
Term
Educate re: triangles -- detraingulating
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Intervention
Structural
Term
Educating regarding grief stages
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Intervention
Term
Effects of problem
Definition
Narrative Early Assessment
Term
Ego resistance
Definition
Object Relations
- Avoidance
Term
Emotional cut off
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Empathic environment
Definition
Early Gestalt
Humanist
Term
Emphasize positives -- model communication
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Emphasize strengths
Definition
Structural Intervention
Narrative
Solution
Term
Empty Chair
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Bowen
Gestalt
Term
Empty chair and conversation between person's splits
Definition
Gestalt Middle
Term
Enactment
Definition
Structural technique
Term
Enactment
Definition
Structural Early Observation phase Intevention
Term
Enactment
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
Encourage congruence between inner experience & outer behavior
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Interventions
Term
Encourage freedom of choice
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Interventions
Term
Engage family; Looks for alliances, splits
Definition
Structural Early Observation phase Intervention
Term
Establish closer ties with community and extended family
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Establish control
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Goals
Term
Establish holding environment
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Events are related through a series of interacting loops or repeating cycles
Definition
Strategic
Term
Examine and resolve strong feelings such as anger, shame, or guilt and identify current life situations that set off traumatic memories and worsen PTSD symptoms.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Exception questions
Definition

Solution Focused First Session Intervention

Narrative

Term
Expand audience; recruit problem fighters, letter writing, community of concern
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Experiment with interventions to help client accept the reality of his current situation.
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Expert in your experience
Definition
Post Modern
Narrative and Solution Focused
Term
Exploration of client's process
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle
Term
Explore how Miguel’s maladaptive behaviors are the result of immature attempts to fulfill relational needs
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Explore how one chooses to define reality
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Explore the client’s understanding of the therapy goals
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Explore the client’s understanding of the therapy goals
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Explore unrealistic expectations of self and others
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle Stage Application of techniques
Term
Externalization: Separating client from problem
Definition
Narrative
Term
Externalize the problem
Definition
Narrative Early Stage Goals
Term
Family Crucible
Definition
Experiential/ Symbolic
Carl Whitaker
Term
Family Ego Mass: Emotional fusion in nuclear family
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Family Life chronology
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Family Mapping
Definition
Structural Technique
Term
Family Projection Process -- parental conflicts transmitted to the kids
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Family adapts more easily to change
Definition
Experiential Satir Late Consolidation
Term
Family choreography
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Family games
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Family has skills to resolve future conflicts
Definition
Structural Late Consolidation
Term
Family history; Relabeling problem
Definition
Structural Early Observation phase Intevention
Term
Family ideology, values, history -- ask each member questions about family coping
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Family makes decisions by exploration & negotiation, not power
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Family projection results in lower differentiation for children
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Family sculpting: dimensions of closeness and power exposed
Definition
Experiential Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Family sculpture
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Family system has been restructured
Definition
Structural Late Consolidation
Term
Family therapist is highly involved, directive and in charge
Definition
Strategic
Also structural to a degree
Term
First order change
Definition
Structural Goal
Change in the behavior
Alleviate symptoms
Change/reframe view of problem
Leads to Second Order change
Term
Focus on positives and solutions
Definition
Solution Focused
Term
Formation of solution -- "miracle question"
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Functional communication
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Fusion Delusion
Definition
Humanistic/ Person Centered
(False belief regarding a relationship between two people where separateness/ subjectivity is denied -- think narcissist)
Term
Generate anxiety
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Genogram
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Intervention
Term
Genogram/ history taking -- organizes family's operating principles, reaction to stress, boundaries, conflict, behavioral patterns & toxic issues (alchol and incest)
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Evaluation
Term
Genuine Encounters
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Get family members to unite in order to take back control of their lives from the oppressive set of symptoms.
Definition
Narrative Intervention
Goal of developing new self-identities
A way to unhook the identified patient.
Term
Give uninterrupted attention
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Giving homework to facilitate awareness of problem
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early and Middle
Structural Middle
Term
Goals -- are they met?
Definition
Narrative Late
Many theories
Term
Grief/ loss work
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Stage
Term
Growth vitality game
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Have her identify the situations in which her arm pain increases
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early
Term
Help Jane master new coping skills and teach Jane to cope with posttraumatic memories, reminders, reactions, and feelings without becoming overwhelmed or emotionally numb.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Help client break free
Definition
Narrative
Beginning
Term
Help client break free from the influence of his problems.
Definition
Narrative
Middle
Term
Help clients do something differently
Definition
Solution Focused Goal
Term
Help family to next stage of family life
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Helps individuals see role in family conflict to avoid recapitulation (doing the same thing over and over)
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Here and now family therapy
Definition
Structural
Satir
Term
Hierarchical system -- parents become cohesive executive subsystem
Definition
Structural Goal
Term
Highly Active
Definition
Experiential Satir Middle Interventions
Strategic
Structural
Term
Home visits; empty chair work
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Intervention
Term
Homework/ Education; Escalating stress
Definition
Structural Middle Intervention
Term
I statements
Definition

Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt

Bowen

Satir

Term
I-Thou
Definition
Existential
Gestalt
(engaging in dialogue rather than by manipulating the patient toward some therapeutic goal)
Term
Identified patient
Definition
Systems theory
Satir
Term
Identify and explore the client’s resistance with him in the next session
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Identify factors that enhance the problem -- socio-cultural elements
Definition
Narrative Early Stage Goals
Term
Identify her trauma symptoms to domestic violence for resolution
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early Goal
Term
Identify problem and plan a strategy for change
Definition
Strategic Early Stage
Term
Identify projective mechanisms so client can accept split off parts (good, bad, etc)
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Identify roles each plays
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Goals
Term
Identify the physiological and emotional reactions involved in her pain/stress vicious cycle
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early Goal
Term
Identify triggers and neutralize through destigmatization and desensitization techniques.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Goal
Term
Identify, explore and resolve your resistance after the session.
Definition
Yes, Cognitive-Behavioral
Term
If a client is already 16, restoring executive functioning may be too late.
Definition
Bowen
Term
Immaturity
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Immediate intervention: pointing out defective thoughts
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early Stage Assessment/ Intervention
Term
Impasse
Definition
Gestalt
(No external support and person doesn't believe can support self)
Term
Improve communication skills
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Stage
Strategic
Satir
Term
Improve relationships with significant other
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Stage
Term
In Bowenian, are questions meant to defuse emotions or to elicit information?
Definition
elicit information
Term
In order for second order change to occur, the client must step back in versus the therapist.
Definition
Strategic
Term
Increase client's self awareness
Definition
Middle Gestalt
Person Centered
Term
Increase personal integrity
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Goals
Term
Increase positive distracting activities like recreation, creative endeavors, or an exercise program
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral End
Term
Increase self esteem
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Individuals have learned how to detriangulate
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Consolidation
Term
Influence/ invitations of problem
Definition
Narrative Early Assessment
Term
Insight and growth
Definition
Object Relations
Gestalt
Term
Intentionality
Definition
Humanistic/ Person Centered
(The way in which the meaning of life is defined/ enacted)
Term
Intentionality
Definition
Person Centered
(Way in which the meaning of life is defined/ enacted)
Term
Interaction is observed, looking for triangles, projections, dysfunctional sequences
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Evaluation
Term
Interested in exceptions, not rules
Definition
Narrative
Solution Focused
Term
Intermission/ consultation
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Interpret and work through abandonment issues
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Interpret and work through abandonment issues
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Interventions are goal-oriented steps that build on each other
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Intrapsychic and interpersonal
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Goal
Term
Intrapsychic work is initiated
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Introduce power struggles
Definition
Strategic Middle Stage
Term
Introjection
Definition
Gestalt
- undigested attitudes, ways of acting, feeling and evaluating, that we swallowed whole, usually from our primary caretakers
Term
Invitation of the problem
Definition
Narrative
Term
Invitations problem makes
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Involved/ Directive style
Definition
Structural
Strategic
Term
Involved/ Directive style
Definition
Structural
Term
Join and accommodate
Definition
Structural Early Observation phase Goal
Term
Joining
Definition
Structural Technique
Term
Joining/ accommodating family through Mimesis
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Kids aren't drawn into parent's pain
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Goals
Term
Learn about client's values, beliefs, self knowledges
Definition
Narrative Middle Stage Goals
Term
Lethal game
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Letter writing
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Intervention
Term
Levelers -- real and genuine
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Linking: connecting distortions to past -- providing insight
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle Intervention
Object Relations
Term
List those events that have recurrently led Dan to become angry or anxious in the past.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early
Term
Locate alternative story
Definition
Narrative Middle Stage Goals
Term
Look for exceptions/ unique outcomes
Definition
Narrative Middle Stage Goals
(Solution focused -- not necessarily unique outcomes part)
Term
Looking for emotional cutoffs (running away from family of origin)
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Evaluation
Term
Loss issues are worked through
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Loss of therapeutic relationship
Definition
Narrative Late
Term
Main Stage of Structural
Definition
Middle
Term
Make meaning and sense of exceptions
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Map out effects in detail
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Mapping family structure/ patterns
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Mapping the problem
Definition
Narrative
How is it affecting life?
Term
Marking boundaries to reduce rigidity & promote closeness
Definition
Structural Middle Intervention
Term
Maturation
Definition
Experiential Satir
Becoming mature -- in touch with feelings and communicates clearly
Term
Mature person is in touch with their feelings, communicates, and individuates
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Maximize the learning of effective pain control without medication
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Model communication and authenticity
Definition
Experiential Satir Early Observation
Term
Model congruent behavior
Definition
Humanistic Existential Beginning
Term
Modeling
Definition
Behavior Therapy
Strategic
Term
Modeling
Definition

Strategic Interventions

Satir

Term
Modify congruent behavior
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Modify dysfunctional thinking patterns (changing the way someone thinks)
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Goal
Term
Modulate feelings (soften)
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Move between coalitions
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Move to next stage of family life cycle
Definition
Strategic Middle Stage
Term
Much attention to language
Definition
Solution Focused
Narrative
Term
Multigenerational Transmission Process
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
No "why" questions
Definition
Solution Focused
Term
No Separate interviews
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
No absolute truth
Definition
Narrative
Solution focused as well
Term
No formal assessment history; just family life chronology
Definition
Satir Early Observation
Term
Non-linear (stages antithetical)
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt (somewhat)
Term
Not knowing stance
Definition
Narrative
Term
Object Relations doesn't focus on Freudian _____________
Definition
id impulses
Term
One change affects the whole system
Definition
Solution Focused
Structural and Strategic might relate too
Term
Only a small change is necessary
Definition
Solution Focused Goal
Term
Opens closed systems
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Overadequate-Underadequate Reciprocity
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
- one partner takes on most or even all family responsibilities (earning a
living, caring for the children, cooking, shopping, and so on) while the other plays the
counterpart role of being underresponsible.
Term
Overfunctional spouse v. dysfunctional spouse
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
- one partner takes on most or even all family responsibilities (earning a
living, caring for the children, cooking, shopping, and so on) while the other plays the
counterpart role of being underresponsible.
Term
Paradoxical directives (defiance based) -- continue symptomatic behavior
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Structural
Term
Paradoxical interventions
Definition
Structural Intervention
Stategic
Term
Paradoxical interventions
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Parents operate as separate individuals
Definition
Experiential Satir Late Consolidation
Bowen
Term
Parts party -- talking to parts of self
Definition
Experiential Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Paying close attention to evidence of the client’s maladaptive relational patterns as they play out in the relationship
Definition
Object Relations
Term
People are driven to get their social and relational needs met
Definition
Object Relations
Term
People select spouses with similar levels of differentiation
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Permeable, impermeable, flexible, rigid
Definition
Structural
Term
Phenomenological
Definition
Gestalt (people not controlled by fixed physical laws)
Term
Placators, blamers, computers, distractors
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Plan a strategy for solving presenting problem
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Point out positive intentions
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Point out power struggles
Definition
Strategic Middle Stage
Term
Point out power struggles in family relationships
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Point out that with Carl’s greater life experience, he probably knows more about parenting and should continue helping mother for a long time.
Definition
Strategic
Restraining strategy
Paradoxical intervention
Term
Positioning strategies
Definition
Strategic Interventions
- (exaggerating family's negative interpretation of situation
Term
Possibility questions
Definition
Narrative intervention
Solution Focused
Term
Post Modern
Definition
Narrative and Solution Focused
Term
Postmodern
Definition
Narrative
Solution focused
Term
Postmodern, constructivist theories like ____________ are very much focused and driven by the client-defined context
Definition
Narrative
Term
Preferred unit of treatment is the whole family
Definition
Structural
Strategic
Satir
Term
Preferred unit of treatment is whole family
Definition
Strategic
Structural
Satir
Term
Prescribe sexual abstinence until Amanda is ready.
Definition
Strategic
Prescribing the symptom
Term
Prescribing the symptom
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Presenting problem no longer serves a function
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Pretend techniques
Definition
Strategic Interventions
(pretend to engage in symptomatic behavior)
Term
Prevent repetition of dysfunctional patterns
Definition
Strategic Middle Stage
Term
Prevent repetition of dysfunctional patterns
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Primary tool of the change agent is the SELF, and that human effectiveness requires openness to personal healing, learning, growing, and changing.
Definition
Satir
Term
Problem is not discussed
Definition
Solution Focused Second Session and beyond Intervention
Term
Problem saturated story
Definition
Narrative Early Assessment
Term
Problem saturated story
Definition
Narrative
Term
Problems belong in a system (usually involves interactions between 3 family members)
Definition
Strategic
Term
Process and appraise the traumatic experience in a more integrated and less distressing manner
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Produce family change by altering system
Definition
Strategic Goal
Structural
Term
Projective identification
Definition
Psychodynamic
Object Relations
Term
Projective identification
Definition
Object Relations
(one person projects undesirable part of self, the other receives it and those feelings are evoked in the other)
Term
Promote acceptance of the traumatic events
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Goal
Term
Promote awareness
Definition
Early Gestalt
Person Centered
Term
Promote awareness and observe behavior
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Promote corrective emotional experience
Definition
Psychodynamic Goal
Object Relations
Term
Promotes direct experience
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Provide environment where client can become fully functioning
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Psycho-education and direct instruction
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Questions limited to clarification and magnification
Definition
Psychodynamic Early Assessment
Object Relations
Term
Questions regarding exceptions to the problem
Definition
Narrative intervention
Solution Focused
Term
Questions that define goals
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Questions that develop a client's experiences so client can draw from experience
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Questions that expose problem's strategy
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Questions that locate client's preferred position (resources/ abilities)
Definition
Narrative intervention
(not constrained by guilt and self criticism)
Term
Quiet listening
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Re-authoring
Definition
Clearly defines late stage of Narrative
Term
Re-describe person and problem
Definition
Narrative intervention
Term
Re-enactment
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Re-enactment; realigning subsystems
Definition
Structural Middle Intervention
Term
Realities are formed by language
Definition
Narrative
Term
Realities are socially constructed
Definition
Narrative
Term
Reauthoring
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Recognition and integration of good/ bad splits
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Recognition and integration of good/bad splits
Definition
Psychodynamic Goal
Object Relations
Term
Recognize relationship between thoughts and emotions
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Recognize uniqueness of individual
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Late Interventions
Term
Reconcile polarities, integration of personality parts
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Reconnect; resolve
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Stage
Term
Redirect statements (say it to her)
Definition
Experiential Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Redirection of anxiety and relief from symptoms
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Goal
Term
Reduce emotional reactivity
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Stage
Term
Reduce emotional reactivity (reacting v. responding)
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Goal
Term
Reduce fusion
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Stage
Term
Reduce repetition of dysfunctional patterns
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Stage
Term
Refer her back to her orthopedist for possible physical therapy for her arm
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Referrals
Definition
Narrative Late
Throughout therapy
Term
Reframe/ relabel -- especially definition of the problem, observing
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Reframing: attributing positive purpose to projective identification
Definition
Psychodynamic Middle Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Rehearsing new self statements
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Late Stage Consolidation
Term
Reinforce as necessary the continuance of the wrist counter at the first sign of the types of thoughts that lead to angry outbursts
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
Term
Relabel dysfucntional behavior
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Relationship
Definition
(Exchange between two free, responsible adults engaging in mutual authentic exchange)
Humanistic/ Existential
Term
Relationship questions
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Relative influence
Definition
Narrative
- Assists people to externalize the problem
- Helps describe the relationship to the problem
Term
Reparent
Definition
Psychodynamic Intervention
Object Relations
Term
Repetition compulsion
Definition
Psychodynamic
Object Relations
Term
Rescue games
Definition
Satir
Term
Resentment
Definition
Gestalt
(Most frequent and debilitating. Guilt is an outgrowth)
Term
Resistance concept is meaningless
Definition
Solution Focused
Term
Responsibility for one's choices
Definition
Existentialism
Term
Restraining strategies (go slow)
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Review awareness and insight
Definition
Late Gestalt
Term
Review gains and problem list
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Late Stage Consolidation
Term
Rituals to commit to changes in system
Definition
Structural Intervention
- directives to engage the whole family in some behavior that exaggerated or broke rules and family myths
Term
Role Induction
Definition
Object Relations
(takes on feelings of others)
Term
Role Playing
Definition
Gestalt Middle
Satir Middle
Bowen Middle
Term
Role playing
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Intervention
Gestalt
Satir
Term
Role playing
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Gestalt
Bowen
Term
Role playing versus talking about situation; empty chair technique
Definition

Experiential Satir Middle Interventions

Gestalt

Family Systems

Term
Scaling questions
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Second order change
Definition
Structural Goal
(restructure family)
change in the system
Term
Self Monitoring
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle Stage Application of techniques
Term
Self Realization
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Self awareness
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Self, world, future
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Self-actualization
Definition
Humanist Existential
(Basic human drive toward growth and completeness)
Term
Separate client from problem
Definition
Narrative Early Stage Goals
Term
Separate client from problem
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Separation, isolation, withdrawal, denial
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Sessions further apart . . . booster sessions
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Late Stage Consolidation
Term
Sessions start with question: what is different/better?
Definition
Solution Focused Second Session and beyond Intervention
Term
Shift attention from identified patient
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Goals
Term
Since Carl has taken over the parenting role, have mother focus more on herself.
Definition
Strategic
Paradoxical
Prescribing the symptom
Term
Since Juan's behavior is likely a result of the family's relational style as disengaged, a boundary marking intervention to open the rigid boundaries would help unhook the IP.
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Snowball effect
Definition
Solution Focused
- one person makes one change and it snowballs from there
Term
Solid Self
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Consolidation
- higher level of differentiation
Term
Solid self v. Pseudo Self
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Spatial metaphor, spatializing
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Early Interventions
Term
Splitting
Definition
Psychodynamic
Object Relations
Term
Splitting (unwanted parts of self)
Definition
Object Relations
Term
State beliefs without attacking others
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Late Consolidation
Satir
Term
Stay neutral as they review their options.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
Stimulate emotional experiences and interactions
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Strength based
Definition
Narrative
Solution focused
Term
Stress family intimacy
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Structured interview
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early Stage Assessment/ Intervention
Term
Styles of communication
Definition
Experiential Satir
Term
Subjective experience
Definition
Humanist Existential Gestalt
Narrative
Satir
Term
Subsystems -- Joining of family members based on gender, generation
Definition
Structural
Term
Suggest that mother consider staying with her father as long as possible and not move on her own too quickly.
Definition
Strategic
Restraining strategy
Paradoxical
Term
Supporting one down position
Definition
Structural Middle Intervention
Term
Symptoms are a tactic for one person to gain power
Definition
Strategic
Term
Symptoms are seen as a “tactic” to gain a sense of control in the power struggles that are inherent in all relationships
Definition
Strategic Family Therapy Middle
Term
Take a different angle with a different thematic theme
Definition
Narrative
Middle but could be part of the late stage process
Term
Talk about toxic issues, regulating direct interaction
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Middle Interventions
Term
Teach "I" statements
Definition

Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Intervention

Satir Middle

Gestalt Early and Middle

Term
Teach RELAXATION before DESENSITIZATION
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early
Term
Teach and have Jane practice relaxation methods and through exposure therapy or desensitization, allow Jane to re-experience the robbery in a safe, controlled environment, while also carefully examining her reactions and beliefs in relation to the event.
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early
Term
Teach effective communication skills: "I" statements; reflective listening
Definition
Experiential Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Teach how to recognize automatic thoughts through self observation/ monitoring
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Early
Term
The therapist is not in charge of defusing emotions; the client is in charge of their emotions. -- what theory?
Definition
Bowen
Term
The therapist would take each of these moments and explore what made them possible, what kept them going, and encourage the client to try to replicate those factors in the week to come.
Definition
Solution Focused Interventions
Term
Therapist acts as coach in neutral position, connects with each person
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Evaluation
Term
Therapist explains treatment team, one way mirror & break; intent to solve problem in as few sessions as possible
Definition
Solution Focused First Session Intervention
Term
Therapist models "I" position to begin process of defining themselves
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended Early Evaluation
Term
Therapist models autonomy and responsibility
Definition
Middle Gestalt
Term
Therapist moves in and out of coalitions without aligning with anybody
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Therapist points out cognitive distortions
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Therapist relationship is important
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Therapist stays neutral
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Therapist's role is to help client use their knowledge
Definition
Solution Focused
Term
Therapists consider countertransference and resistance
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral
Term
Therapists directives produce change -- he is in charge of the therapeutic relationship, determines how treatment proceeds, intervenes when he chooses, not at family's request
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
Thought Stopping
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle
Term
Top dog (shoulds) under dog (sabotage)
Definition
Gestalt Middle
Term
Tracking -- interactional patterns
Definition
Structural Intervention
Term
Triangulation
Definition
Bowen
Structural
Term
Two levels of communication
Definition
Strategic
Content, metacommunication
Term
Unblock defenses
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Goals
Term
Uncover dysfunctional interactional patterns
Definition
Psychodynamic Goal
Object Relations
Term
Uncover family games
Definition
Experiential/ Satir Middle Interventions
Term
Uncover negative schemas
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Middle Stage Application of techniques
Term
Unique outcomes
Definition
Narrative Early-Middle Interventions
Term
Unique outcomes/ sparkling moments
Definition
Narrative
- when “the problem” doesn’t exist or when they are doing something outside the problem-saturated story
Term
Unresolved emotional attachments to one's family of origin must be resolved before one can differentiate to a mature, healthy personality
Definition
Bowen/ Multigenerational/ Extended
Term
Use chronic pain management techniques
Definition
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention
Term
Use enactments in the therapy sessions and reframing during the enactments to reveal the structure of the family.
Definition
Structural Intervention
Assessment Phase
Term
Using client's already existing strengths and abilities
Definition
Solution Focused
Narrative
Term
View circular casuality, communication patterns, assume temporary leadership
Definition
Strategic Interventions
Term
What client does to get there is up to the client
Definition
Solution Focused Goal
Term
Which comes first, solid self or boundaries?
Definition
solid self
Term
Wholeness
Definition
Humanistic/ Existential/ Gestalt
Term
Work through termination issues
Definition
Late Gestalt
Object Relations
Narrative
Term
destructive developmental impasses
Definition
Object Relations
- no progress is made
Term
from their dependency needs toward autonomy and full functioning adulthood
Definition
Object Relations
Term
have mother and son working together on something
Definition
Family Systems
Term
here and now and entire family
Definition
Satir
Structural
Strategic
Term
human infant moves from the early states of autism (withdrawal) and then symbiosis (with the mother) to a process of first separating from and then individuating from the primary caregiver
Definition
Object Relations
Term
identity diffusion
Definition
Object Relations
- neither an identity crisis or commitment
Term
identity formation" (a blueprint for an identity or personality)
Definition
Object Relations
Term
look for strengths
Definition
Family Systems
Narrative
Solution Focused
Term
people are driven by sexual and aggressive needs
Definition
Freudian view
Term
requires taking the “I position,” declaring oneself regarding what is not negotiable in a relationship.
Definition
Bowen Interventions
Term
separation-individuation
Definition
Object Relations
Term
symptoms resulting from a lack of psychological development
Definition
Object Relations
Term
symptoms stem from a failure to integrate the disparate needs for autonomy and connectedness
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
underline the positive
Definition
Family Systems
Term
watch out for making parents adversarial toward one another
Definition
Family Systems
Term
· "Exception-finding questions" -- don’t try to predict the future, keep it in the PRESENT
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Narrative
Term
· - Instilling hope
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Actively create
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Amplify exceptions to behavior previously thought of by clients as unchangeable. When is anxiety NOT happening
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· As alternative stories emerge during collaborative therapeutic conversations, help Dan break free from the influence of his problems (or problematic stories).
Definition
Narrative Therapy Middle
Term
· Ask Elias what happened that helped him get closer to getting a job in the past few days.
Definition
Solution Focused Interventions
Term
· Ask a great deal of questions in order to lead the client into creating their own solutions
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Ask how rules were enforced in the past and why that system didn’t work this time
Definition
Family Systems Beginning
Structural?
Term
· Ask low-key direct questions to define and clarify Katie's emotional responsivity as a parent.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Assign a task in session, then observe leadership, problem solving, and other patterns.
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
· Both James and William have insight about their role in creating the problems that brought them to therapy and skills to resolve future problems
Definition
Family Systems End
Term
· Bring small successes into conscious awareness
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Build a new parenting team for the family
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Structural
Bowen
Term
· Building skills for regulating closeness and separateness.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Carefully track communication patterns among family members
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
· Change outmoded family beliefs
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Clients might report back on success (or failure) of differentiating moves
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Clients might report back on success (or failure) of differentiating moves
Definition
Bowen End
Term
· Coach parents to get Ryan involved in more activities with his peers, to build social confidence
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Term
· Collaboration
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Consider upcoming developmental challenges with family
Definition
Structural Family Late
Term
· Create a resolution focused narrative
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Define clearer boundary between spousal and executive functions in the system
Definition
Structural Family Middle
Term
· Define non-negotiable elements of self in relation to spouse -- defining core beliefs or defining the self
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Defining identity through values clarification
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Term
· Develop understanding of the family projection process.
Definition
Bowen Beginning
Term
· Directive
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Structural
Strategic
Satir
Term
· Discover the family rules and observe how much deviation is tolerated before negative feedback restores the homeostasis.
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Don Jackson
Strategic
Communications Theory
Term
· Discuss progress with the family, make changes based on feedback
Definition
Structural Family Middle
Term
· Disrupt problem-maintaining behaviors
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Disrupt the family's customary (normal) interactive patterns and identify the feedback loops (outputs fed back into inputs), which escalate any conflicts.
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Term
· Early assessment of the themes and meaning Dan has made of the experiences he had.
Definition
Narrative Therapy Beginning
Term
· Encourage Kelly to use her rational, thinking processes to take better care of herself
Definition
Bowen Middle
CogB
Term
· Encourage clients to make choices overt
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Term
· Engage extended family to support parenting
Definition
Structural Family Middle
Term
· Enhancing congruence
Definition
Satir Goal
Term
· Expanding self-discovery and self-responsibility
Definition
Satir Goal
Term
· Explore family myths
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Term
· Explore feelings
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Term
· Explore their marriage contract on all its levels
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Psychodynamic
Term
· Find additional ways of expressing the story
Definition
Narrative Therapy End
Term
· Finding exceptions (when things are going well)
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Narrative
Term
· First teaching client(s) how a family emotional system operates, so that changes can be planned for.
Definition
Bowen Beginning
Term
· Focus on values and choices
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Term
· Focus on what the client most wants and desires and how to achieve it
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Focusing affect -- experiencing all the related feelings fully
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Term
· Get family members to unite in order to take back control of their lives from the oppressive set of symptoms.
Definition
Narrative Therapy Intervention
Term
· Have client interview extended family members to gain clarity about dynamics.
Definition
Bowen Interventions
Term
· Help Dan break free from the influence of his problems
Definition
Narrative Therapy Beginning
Term
· Help husband and wife reach a decision about marriage
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Term
· Homework assignments
Definition
Family Systems Middle
CogB
Structural
Term
· Identify and transform defense mechanisms (most family therapists deal with defense mechanisms)
Definition
Satir Goal
Term
· Identify coalitions and alliances, evaluate boundaries
Definition
Structural Family Beginning
Term
· Identify patterns from their families of origin repeated in the marriage
Definition
Bowen Middle
Object Relations
Psychodynamic
Term
· Identify triangles
Definition
Bowen Beginning
Structural
Term
· Improving communication, checking things out with their spouse
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Satir
Term
· Improving intimacy by building mutually enjoyable connections and activities
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Term
· Increase differentiation
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Bowen
Term
· Instill hope (good for any theory)
Definition
Family Systems Beginning
Term
· Interrupt interaction sequences that lead to more of the same patterns.
Definition
Strategic Family Therapy Middle
Term
· Interrupt pathological transactions that maintain the problematic situation.
Definition
Strategic Family Therapy Middle
Term
· Investigate
Definition
Family Systems Beginning
Term
· James and William have a deeper understanding of their family system and the roles they play in maintaining the homeostasis of the family system. it relates to the importance of roles in maintaining the family’s balance.
Definition
Family Systems End
Strategic
Term
· Join the system
Definition
Structural Family Beginning
Term
· Leave door open for return to therapy if needed
Definition
Structural Late
CogB
Term
· Listen to the words she uses to determine if she is visual, kinetic or auditory and use interventions that work for that mode
Definition
Gestalt
Term
· Maintain the position of non-anxious emotional contact and remain un-invested in the family conflict.
Definition
Bowen Beginning
Term
· Make sure family knows where to go for additional help
Definition
Late Stage
Term
· Model congruent behavior
Definition
Humanistic Existential Middle
Satir
Term
· Model, teach, and rehearse communication skills, and practice "I" messages in non-defensive responses.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Satir
Term
· Normalize stress of family life cycle transition
Definition
Humanistic Existential Beginning
Term
· Notice damaging triangulation in order to detriangle
Definition
Bowen Middle
Structural
Term
· Notice damaging triangulation in order to detriangle
Definition
Bowen End
Term
· Noting all the improvements, what the family did to achieve them, what difference these improvements are making in other areas of their life and how James and William will know that things are continuing to improve.
Definition
Family Systems End
Term
· Observe power relationships and connections in a system
Definition
Structural Family Therapy
Term
· Opening up closed systems to resources in the environment
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Bowen
Term
· Physical separation is emotional cut off, not differentiation.
Definition
Bowen
Term
· Plan to increase differentiation from family of origin
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Plan to increase differentiation from family of origin
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Plan to restructure parental subsystem
Definition
Structural Family Beginning
Term
· Prescribing the symptom -- doing the problem on purpose
Definition
Strategic Family Therapy Middle
Term
· Promote a positive attitude and take the focus off the problems that brought them to therapy
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Re-authoring
Definition
Narrative Therapy End
Term
· Reduce emotional reactivity (inability to separate thoughts from feelings)
Definition
Bowen Beginning
Term
· Reduce emotional reactivity (inability to separate thoughts from feelings)
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Reduce emotional reactivity (inability to separate thoughts from feelings)
Definition
Bowen End
Term
· Reducing conflict by identifying triggers for fighting
Definition
Family Systems Middle
CogB
Term
· Reducing emotional reactivity in each partner
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Refer James for substance-abuse counseling and to a teen group to help him separate from his foster parents
Definition
Family Systems Beginning
Bowen
Term
· Refer William for individual therapy focusing on his depression (you can still work with the family together)
Definition
Family Systems Beginning
Term
· Remain focused in the future with the client in a collaborative partnership (and present)
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Seek to engage Dan in richly describing and strengthening the new preferred stories.
Definition
Narrative Therapy End
Term
· Since Juan’s behavior is likely a result of the family’s relational style as disengaged, a boundary marking intervention to open the rigid boundaries would help unhook the patient.
Definition
Structural Family Interventions
Term
· Skeleton key interventions
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
- Between now and when we meet, I would like you to pick one thing in your relationship you definitely want to keep happening
- one key unlocks many locks
Term
· Speak directly to people about your issues with each of them.
Definition
Bowen Interventions
Term
· Start where they are at, but then AMPLIFY it!
Definition
Solution Focused Interventions
Term
· Strengthen marital bond to take focus off parenting for awhile
Definition
Structural Family Middle
Term
· Systems therapy generally involves larger social entities, such as the child’s school.
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Term
· Take a different angle with a different thematic meaning.
Definition
Narrative Therapy Middle
Term
· Tapping internal resources for external change
Definition
Satir Goal
Term
· Teach differentiation skills as a continuing process
Definition
Bowen End
Term
· Teach self care and assertiveness to mother and child
Definition

Family Systems Middle

CogB

Term
· Teaching them to detriangle and take the I position
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Teaching them to detriangle and take the I position
Definition
Structural Family Middle
Bowen may do this too
Term
· The major goals of the therapy have been met
Definition
Family Systems End
Any theory
Term
· The question, “What is going on?” is used
Definition
Gestalt
Term
· The therapist maintains a non-anxious presence as issues are directed back to the dyad.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Therapist would NEVER ask the client to add non-verbal expressions, such as screams, to her role play. The CLIENT would decide
Definition
Gestalt
Term
· Think about the more positive aspects
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· Think carefully before reacting emotionally.
Definition
Bowen Interventions
Term
· Track success of differentiation efforts
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
· Track success of differentiation efforts
Definition
Bowen End
Term
· Unhook the identified patient
Definition
Family Systems Goal
Satir
Term
· Use an empty chair to represent William’s wife, and have both William and James take turns constructing an imaginary dialogue with her
Definition
Family Systems Middle
Gestalt
Bowen
Satir
Term
· Use enactments in the therapy sessions and reframing during the enactments to reveal the structure of the family
Definition
Structural Family Beginning
Term
· Use scaling questions
Definition
Solution Focused Middle
Term
· We produce and can change reality. It is not objective, but subjective
Definition
Solution Focused Beginning
Term
· Work to increase self esteem
Definition
Satir Goal
Term
· Write down something about all of the times when they felt close to each other this week
Definition
Solution Focused Interventions
Term
• Explore with client the “shoulds” imposed by society, religion, and his parents regarding his sexual orientation.
Definition
Gestalt
Cog B
Term
• Have client role play his father to facilitate expression of ambivalent feelings.
Definition
Gestalt intervention
Term
• Help client become aware of how he has incorporated, through the process of introjection, the attitudes of others without discriminating what fits for him and what does not.
Definition
Gestalt
Term
• Help the client increase his awareness and to own his feelings
Definition
Gestalt
Term
• Paradoxical theory of change is different than a paradoxical intervention. This paradoxical theory of change is not an intervention and is not used to promote change. It just explains that change is only possible when one becomes fully aware of and accepts one’s present circumstances.
Definition
Gestalt
Term
• Use the therapeutic relationship to increase overall relational awareness. Work with client’s contact boundary to promote relational awareness.
Definition
Gestalt intervention
Term
• Work on clients contact boundary to promote his relational awareness.
Definition
Gestalt intervention
Term
Reasons for seeking my services
Definition
Part of assessment and initial stage of treatment
Term
Genogram examples
Definition
1. Hx of down syndrome or other
2. Identifying and exploring reciprocal relationship patterns
3. Opportunities for de-traingling
4. Unbiased manner of assessing alcoholism or drug usage
Term
Identifying and exploring reciprocal relationship patterns
Definition
Genogram
Term
Unbiased manner of assessing alcoholism or drug usage
Definition
Genogram
Term
Depression after having a baby
Definition
Major Depressive Disorder, postpartum onset
Term
Investigate family's previous patterns around eating, and around power and control
Definition
Early Bowen, Genogram
Term
Suggest the family build cohesion by researching their history as a project together at home.
Definition
Bowen Middle
Term
Cognitive Restructuring
Definition
Cog B but others use it too
Term
Disrupt problem maintaining behaviors
Definition
Early Solution Focused
Term
Change outmoded family beliefs
Definition
Early Solution Focused
Term
Purpose of Bowenians asking low key and direct questions
Definition
elicit information, NOT diffuse emotions
Term
Relational therapy for both of them to increase positive reactions and short circuit repetitive patterns that are representative of the power struggle between them.
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Point out that the difference in acculturation is one of the primary sources of disconnect
Definition
Object Relations diversity
Term
Strengthen relationships
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Multimodal
Definition
Good for Latino and African American families
Term
Is it true that the holding environment could be different for Latino families?
Definition
Yes
Term
Phase of Life
Definition
Problem with particular developmental stage or some other life circumstance that is not due to a mental disorder
1. Entering school
2. Leaving parental control
3. Starting a new career
4. Changes involved in marriage, divorce, and retirement
Term
Focus of clinical attention is a problem involving adjustment to a different culture
Definition
Acculturation Problem
Term
Expanding self-discovery and self-responsibility
Definition
Satir
Term
Teach the steps of mutual problem solving
Definition
CogB Family
Term
Administer the marital adjustment scale
Definition
CogB Family
Term
Can mental illness be a diversity factor?
Definition
Yes, if severe (schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.)
Term
General Medical Condition
Definition
1. Mental Disorder NOS
2. Personality Change
3. Catatonic Disorder
4. Delrium
5. Dementia
6. Amnesia
7. Psychotic
8. Mood
9. Anxiety
10. Sexual Dysfunction
11. Sleep Disorder
Term
Envisioning
Definition
Solution Focused
Term
Help client learn to make better choices
Definition
Satir
Term
Help client become more self-congruent and self accepting
Definition
Satir
Term
Reframe his perceptions of self and others
Definition
Satir
Term
Create transformational change through use of process questions.
Definition
Satir
Term
Bring awareness of self through sculpting
Definition
Satir
Term
Discuss nature of confidentiality
Definition
Good ethical goal
Term
Structure dialogue between William and James about the meaning each makes of Jame;s bad behavior.
Definition
Family Systems
Term
Ask how rules were enforced in the past and why that system didn't work this time.
Definition
Family Systems Early
Term
Invite both clients to explore their different racial identities and what that means in terms of identification with the family
Definition
Family Systems
Term
Interrupt pathological transactions that maintain the problematic situation.
Definition
Strategic Goal
Term
Client characteristics that affect treatment plan.
Definition
1. Resistance to change
2. Low motivation
3. Psychological development level
4. Client's understanding of the problem
5. Client's view of other as the Identified patient
6. Use of primitive defenses
Term
Allow contact to happen and engage the clients in dialogue
Definition
Gestalt
Term
"me" and "not me"
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Focus the clients on what is happening between them
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Sensate Focus -- would Gestalt do it?
Definition
Yes
Term
Guided fantasy
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Phenomenological
Definition
immediate experience
avoids interpretation and prescription
Gestalt
Term
Focus on the way language is used with the intent of cognitive restructuring
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Tell Elias how you feel in the face of his hopelessness
Definition
Gestalt
Term
Amplification
Definition
Gestalt
Solution Focused
Term
Purpose of empty chair in Gestalt
Definition
To gain awareness of feelings and experience of self. NOT unconscious patterns.
Term
Remember WE DON'T HOSPITALIZE
Definition
We initiate 5150
Term
What do psychodynamics strengthen?
Definition
The Ego
Term
Separation-individuation
Definition
Internal process
Term
When parents divorce
Definition
Separate spousal from parenting issues
Term
Develop a mutual understanding of what brought them together as a couple
Definition
Psychodynamic
Term
Use therapy as a container for intense emotions and projections
Definition
Psychodynamic
Term
How do you evaluate gender difference
Definition
Perhaps assessment of core beliefs regarding sex roles.
NOT by psychological testing
Term
Evaluate age difference
Definition
1. Complete psychosocial history of their relationship
BETTER than complete developmental history of spouse.
Term
How to assess for client's motivation
Definition
1. Would she pay the fee?
2. Ask directly about goals and expectations of therapy
3. Observe her energy level and other non verbal cues as she discusses her goals.
4. Ask the miracle question
Term
Expert in her experience
Definition
Narrative
Solution Focused
Term
Interventions to support goal of avoiding abuse of drugs
Definition
1. Peer support group
2. Identify triggers
3. Refer to 12 step
4. Stress reduction techniques
Term
Focusing affect
Definition
Humanist Existential
Term
Encouraging expression of anger
Definition
Humanist Existential
Term
Values clarification
Definition
Humanist Existential
Term
Safety Plan
Definition
Crisis management, but not legal
Term
5150
Definition
Danger must include a mental illness
Term
Mental Status exam and S/I
Definition
Not a typical tool for this
Term
Example of "diverse" treatment needs
Definition
Referring grandsons for individual therapy
Term
Which is better to assess for severity of mother's symptoms? Mental status or biopsychosocial history
Definition
Mental Status
Term
Take full responsibility for thoughts and emotions
Definition
Existential
Term
Create a safe place to explore values
Definition
Humaistic-Existential Beginning
Term
Explore differences in expectations based on their cultural backgrounds
Definition
Humaistic-Existential Beginning
Term
What is NOT part of formulating treatment goals?
Definition
Consulting other sources; that's more assessment
Term
Client is in charge, not therapist
Definition
Narrative
Solution Focused
Term
Values consultants
Definition
Post modern
Narrative
Solution focused
Term
Could she be expert of family?
Definition
Probably not, expert on her life, but not whole family.
Post Modern
Term
Purpose of House Tree Person
Definition
1. Developmental level drawing skills
2. Perceptual problems
NOT ABOUT CRISIS
Term
Role Play
Definition
also behavioral
Term
Keep therapy separate from legal proceedings
Definition
Ethical
Conflict of interest NOT dual relationship
Term
Going from home to school
Definition
Phase of Life Problem
Term
Mother and daughter are over-involved
Definition
Treat together to assess fusion and increase independent functioning
Term
Academic stuff
Definition
Therapist shouldn't necessarily get involved
Term
Having mother move back in
Definition
Phase of Life problem
Term
Explore client's values about relationships to husband and mother
Definition
Humanistic Existential
Term
Refer mother for a medical evaluation
Definition
Legal because it is a Scope of Practice issue.
Term
See the couple together to assess the potential for danger and need for hospitalization.
Definition
NO legal obligation to assess people not in session.
Term
Explore resistance and client's understanding of goals.
Definition
Cogb
Term
Help the family maintain parenting functions
Definition
Family Systems
Term
Kid's education and divorced parents
Definition
Good to have school conferences that they both attend.
Term
What to do if client requests custody evaluation
Definition
Refer out
Term
How to unhook identified patient
Definition
1. Get family members to unite in order to take back control of their lives from the oppressive set of symptoms.
2. Since Juan's behavior is likely the result of the family's relational style as disengaged, a boundary marking . . .
NO to focus on the tension between mom and dad because creates symptom bearer
Term
Non-consensual sex with a 16 year old by a 25 year old
Definition
Reportable as sexual abuse
Term
If seen without mother, can client give permission to talk to her school?
Definition
Technically yes, but BBS would probably say no because school won't recognize it.
Term
Armed robbery and in jail
Definition
Don't jump the gun and assume anti-social
Term
Length of symptoms for Conduct disorder
Definition
a year
Term
Encourage alignment between what people say and what they feel inside
Definition
Satir
Term
Client's behavior to some extent might be a reaction to the parent's problems
Definition
Satir
Term
Not alert and not sleeping
Definition
Could be drugs
Term
If a goal is not working for PTSD
Definition
Consider the timing
Could there be an outside trigger?
Term
Psychosocial and anxiety/ depression
Definition
They are diagnosis NOT psychosocial
Term
Develop an understanding of the unique pattern of distortions and manipulations that client may be using to establish and maintain relationships
Definition
Object Relations Beginning
Term
Refuse the induction into client's maladaptive pattern of relating
Definition
Object Relations Middle
Term
Require client to recognize and express her needs for acceptance and validation openly and honestly
Definition
Object Relations Middle
Term
Help client move from manipulative, dependent patterns of relating to honest, autonomous ways of relating
Definition
Object Relations Beginning
Term
Miracle Question
Definition
doesn't include "what her life would be like" -- more focused on the present
Term
Fire setting
Definition
Doesn't mean you would hospitalize a kid
Could however need to report a dangerous situation
Term
Interpret transference occurring between clients
Definition
Object Relations
Term
Drug issues
Definition
Make sure they get referrals --
Term
Life outside of prison
Definition
Phase of Life problem
Term
Identify and transform defense mechanisms
Definition
Satir
Term
Expanding self discovery and self responsibility
Definition
Satir
Term
Reframe his perception of self and others
Definition
Satir
Term
Homosexuals
Definition
Stressoe of discrmimination
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