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A therapeutic tatctic
Therapist makes personal adjustments to adapt to family style
meant to build therapeutic alliance with the family |
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Alliances between family members within the overall family
Affiliations & splits from one another
May be temporary or permanent
It occurs in an attempt to gain homeostasis (equilibrium) |
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Prolonged, severe reduction in apetite
Usually found in adolescent girls, but not exclusive to
Can reach point of becoming life threatening |
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A stable, reliable performance point
Used to compare changes to |
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A viewpoint regarding objective & experimentally verified procedures
Basis for changing maladaptive, undesired or problematic behaviors |
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An assessment procedure
Therapist identifies targeted behavior to be changed
Therapist determines factors currently maintaining the behavior
Therapist formulates a TX plan that includes specific criteria for measuring success of change effort |
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