General Systems Theory

When things with a common origin can go in very different directions of development (e.g., of two abuse survivors, one heals and the other becomes a criminal).

Contextual Theory

Nagy

Gestalt

Impt:  Recognizing the importance of understanding and focusing on the client's perception of reality

Cognitive Behavioral therapy

Triad

View of Self

View of the world

View of prospects for the future

Constructivist theory-Lynn Hoffman

Breathing exercises

Framo

really need to bring in whole family

Cybernetics

a sequence of causes and effects that leads back to the original cause and either alters or confirms it, thus producing a new sequence, as in a feedback loop. 2. a form of circular reasoning in which the cause of some event is held to exist in or be implied by the event itself.

Structural Family Therapy

Complementarity denotes the fit among the behaviors and roles of individual members or subsystems of a family. ... The difference is not trivial; it accounts for the structural therapist's preference for addressing spatial arrangements (literal and metaphorical) among family members, rather than sequences of behavior.

Behavioral Therapy

A token economy is a system of contingency management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior. The reinforcers are symbols or tokens that can be exchanged for other reinforcers.

chart for children

Cybernetics

dynamic of system that might break down

Structural

Minuchin