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MRI Primary Contributors - ANSWER Bateson, Jackson, Satir, Haley,
Weakland, Watzlawick
MRI Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Intro to treatment setup. 2. Inquiry
and definition of problem. 3. Estimation of the solution (pos. feedback)
maintaining. 4. Setting goals for treatment. 5. Selecting and making behavioral or
strategic interventions.
6. Termination
MRI Out-of-Session Directive - ANSWER Instructing the clients to engage
in behavioral change outside of the session as opposed to in session.
MRI Prescribing the Symptom - ANSWER Paradoxical intervention where
one instructs the client to intentionally engage in the behavior they wish to
change. Client may rebel and experience desired change or comply and realize
they have control.
MRI Restraining the Progress of Change - ANSWER Paradoxical
intervention where clients come into session and report that they are experiencing
change so therapist encourages them to slow down and be cautious about
changing too fast.
MRI Positioning - ANSWER Paradoxical intervention of pushing a family
member further into the absurdity of their initial position, thereby making them
realize their own absurdity.
MRI Paradoxical Intervention - ANSWER Used to address that families are
naturally resistant to change. Involves instructing fam not to change or to change
in ways that contradict their desired change.
MRI Treatment Duration - ANSWER Limited to 10 sessions, less if problem
is solved.
MRI Therapy Goals - ANSWER Resolve current problem, provide symptoms
relief and create second-order change.
MRI Diagnosing - ANSWER Non-pathologizing and systemic.
MRI Assessment - ANSWER Get description of problem. Understand the
,problem, then therapist identifies the behavioral patterns that maintain that
pattern.
MRI Symmetrical Relationship - ANSWER Based on equality, behavior of
one mirrors that of the other.
MRI Complementary Relationship - ANSWER Based on differences that fit
together.
MRI Metacommunication - ANSWER Communicating about
communicating. Essentially refers to non-verbals going on in the room that have
an impact on what is being said verbally.
MRI Report and Command Functions - ANSWER Every communication has
2 components:
Report- Content of the message.
Command- A message about the relationship.
MRI More of the Same - ANSWER Problem when families fail to
appropriately respond to normal life circumstances, families will do more of the
failed solution as opposed to trying a different solution.
MRI Problem as Attempted Solution - ANSWER The problem is not the
problem, the attempted solutions to fix the problem reinforces the interactional
behavioral sequence.
MRI First-Order Change - ANSWER Changes in family patterns that occur
at the behavioral level.
MRI Second-Order Change - ANSWER Changes in family patterns of
interaction that occurs at the level of beliefs or rules.
Object-Relations Diagnosing - ANSWER Non-pathologizing.
Object-Relations Therapy Goals - ANSWER Develop insight and work
through unresolved conflict. Eventually, individuals develop healthy egos and
begin to relate to others maturely without projection.
Object-Relations Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Assess early childhood
experiences and current and past relationships. Explore current relationship style.
2. Foster insight and begin working through.
,3. Individual begins to experiment with developing new behaviors and ways to
interact. Fosters later experiences that can re-shape internalized objects.
Object-Relations Assessment - ANSWER Non-Structured. Explores:
-Early childhood experiences and the clients' interpretations of them.
-Past and present relationship with caregivers.
-Current relationship style and where they are struggling with healthy
relationships.
Object-Relations Introject - ANSWER Internalized objects become
introjects, and are split into being either all-good or all-bad.
Object-Relations Countertransference - ANSWER The therapist's tendency
to attribute qualities that reflect unresolved grievances from a previous
relationship onto a client.
Object-Relations Transference - ANSWER Tendency of individuals to
attribute qualities to other individuals that reflect unresolved grievances from a
previous relationship.
Object-Relations Interpretation - ANSWER Therapist's hypothesis about
the influence of the client's past experiences on their current behaviors and
struggles.
Object-Relations Working Through - ANSWER After insight is achieved,
working through process entails translating insight into more desirable and
constructive ways of being.
Object-Relations Insight - ANSWER The process of raising unconscious
forces to awareness, allowing clients to better understand how underlying
dynamics impact their behavior and relationships.
Object-Relations Projective Identification - ANSWER Each parent projects
the remnants of their repressed object relationships onto the child. The child then
internalizes these projections into becoming significant components of their
personality.
Object-Relations Object - ANSWER An individual's collective distortions
based upon his or her subjective experiences and perceptions of another person,
typically an internalized representation of a parent/caregiver based on repeated
interactions throughout early childhood.
, Object-Relations Projection - ANSWER When a child is born, each parent
projects fragments of repressed object relationships onto the child.
Object-Relations Main Contributor - ANSWER James Framo
Bowen Differentiation - ANSWER Differentiated individuals are able to
react to the world rationally and enter into relationships while balancing
competing needs for belonging and individuality.
Opposite is emotionally fused and ruled by emotions.
Bowen Dysfunction - ANSWER Comes from lack of differentiation.
Symptoms come from when stress exceeds a persons ability to handle it or when
the level of anxiety exceeds the system's ability to bind it.
Bowen Family Projection Process - ANSWER Undifferentiated parents
transmit immaturity to children.
When stress overwhelms, one parent may become emotionally distant, the other
may become overly involved with the child.
Bowen Triangles - ANSWER Smallest stable unit in system. Forms out of the
anxiety of a 2-person system; to stabilize the relationship a third party is drawn in.
Bowen Solid-Self - ANSWER An individual who is more differentiated and is
able to function based on personally defined set of values, beliefs, convictions and
life principles.
Bowen Pseudo-Self - ANSWER An individual who is not differentiated and
may be fused with another person. Does not reason from own internal values but
borrows from others.
Bowen Societal Emotional Process - ANSWER Society influences how
families function. Bowen believed that the more differentiated individuals and
families resist destructive social influences (sexism, racism, etc.)
Bowen Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Assessment Phase - Patterns of
togetherness and individual exploration of family of origin.
2. Genogram Phase
3. Differentiation Phase
Bowen Going Home Again - ANSWER Technique that encourages clients to
go home and experience family of origin without emotional reactivity. Researches
MRI Primary Contributors - ANSWER Bateson, Jackson, Satir, Haley,
Weakland, Watzlawick
MRI Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Intro to treatment setup. 2. Inquiry
and definition of problem. 3. Estimation of the solution (pos. feedback)
maintaining. 4. Setting goals for treatment. 5. Selecting and making behavioral or
strategic interventions.
6. Termination
MRI Out-of-Session Directive - ANSWER Instructing the clients to engage
in behavioral change outside of the session as opposed to in session.
MRI Prescribing the Symptom - ANSWER Paradoxical intervention where
one instructs the client to intentionally engage in the behavior they wish to
change. Client may rebel and experience desired change or comply and realize
they have control.
MRI Restraining the Progress of Change - ANSWER Paradoxical
intervention where clients come into session and report that they are experiencing
change so therapist encourages them to slow down and be cautious about
changing too fast.
MRI Positioning - ANSWER Paradoxical intervention of pushing a family
member further into the absurdity of their initial position, thereby making them
realize their own absurdity.
MRI Paradoxical Intervention - ANSWER Used to address that families are
naturally resistant to change. Involves instructing fam not to change or to change
in ways that contradict their desired change.
MRI Treatment Duration - ANSWER Limited to 10 sessions, less if problem
is solved.
MRI Therapy Goals - ANSWER Resolve current problem, provide symptoms
relief and create second-order change.
MRI Diagnosing - ANSWER Non-pathologizing and systemic.
MRI Assessment - ANSWER Get description of problem. Understand the
,problem, then therapist identifies the behavioral patterns that maintain that
pattern.
MRI Symmetrical Relationship - ANSWER Based on equality, behavior of
one mirrors that of the other.
MRI Complementary Relationship - ANSWER Based on differences that fit
together.
MRI Metacommunication - ANSWER Communicating about
communicating. Essentially refers to non-verbals going on in the room that have
an impact on what is being said verbally.
MRI Report and Command Functions - ANSWER Every communication has
2 components:
Report- Content of the message.
Command- A message about the relationship.
MRI More of the Same - ANSWER Problem when families fail to
appropriately respond to normal life circumstances, families will do more of the
failed solution as opposed to trying a different solution.
MRI Problem as Attempted Solution - ANSWER The problem is not the
problem, the attempted solutions to fix the problem reinforces the interactional
behavioral sequence.
MRI First-Order Change - ANSWER Changes in family patterns that occur
at the behavioral level.
MRI Second-Order Change - ANSWER Changes in family patterns of
interaction that occurs at the level of beliefs or rules.
Object-Relations Diagnosing - ANSWER Non-pathologizing.
Object-Relations Therapy Goals - ANSWER Develop insight and work
through unresolved conflict. Eventually, individuals develop healthy egos and
begin to relate to others maturely without projection.
Object-Relations Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Assess early childhood
experiences and current and past relationships. Explore current relationship style.
2. Foster insight and begin working through.
,3. Individual begins to experiment with developing new behaviors and ways to
interact. Fosters later experiences that can re-shape internalized objects.
Object-Relations Assessment - ANSWER Non-Structured. Explores:
-Early childhood experiences and the clients' interpretations of them.
-Past and present relationship with caregivers.
-Current relationship style and where they are struggling with healthy
relationships.
Object-Relations Introject - ANSWER Internalized objects become
introjects, and are split into being either all-good or all-bad.
Object-Relations Countertransference - ANSWER The therapist's tendency
to attribute qualities that reflect unresolved grievances from a previous
relationship onto a client.
Object-Relations Transference - ANSWER Tendency of individuals to
attribute qualities to other individuals that reflect unresolved grievances from a
previous relationship.
Object-Relations Interpretation - ANSWER Therapist's hypothesis about
the influence of the client's past experiences on their current behaviors and
struggles.
Object-Relations Working Through - ANSWER After insight is achieved,
working through process entails translating insight into more desirable and
constructive ways of being.
Object-Relations Insight - ANSWER The process of raising unconscious
forces to awareness, allowing clients to better understand how underlying
dynamics impact their behavior and relationships.
Object-Relations Projective Identification - ANSWER Each parent projects
the remnants of their repressed object relationships onto the child. The child then
internalizes these projections into becoming significant components of their
personality.
Object-Relations Object - ANSWER An individual's collective distortions
based upon his or her subjective experiences and perceptions of another person,
typically an internalized representation of a parent/caregiver based on repeated
interactions throughout early childhood.
, Object-Relations Projection - ANSWER When a child is born, each parent
projects fragments of repressed object relationships onto the child.
Object-Relations Main Contributor - ANSWER James Framo
Bowen Differentiation - ANSWER Differentiated individuals are able to
react to the world rationally and enter into relationships while balancing
competing needs for belonging and individuality.
Opposite is emotionally fused and ruled by emotions.
Bowen Dysfunction - ANSWER Comes from lack of differentiation.
Symptoms come from when stress exceeds a persons ability to handle it or when
the level of anxiety exceeds the system's ability to bind it.
Bowen Family Projection Process - ANSWER Undifferentiated parents
transmit immaturity to children.
When stress overwhelms, one parent may become emotionally distant, the other
may become overly involved with the child.
Bowen Triangles - ANSWER Smallest stable unit in system. Forms out of the
anxiety of a 2-person system; to stabilize the relationship a third party is drawn in.
Bowen Solid-Self - ANSWER An individual who is more differentiated and is
able to function based on personally defined set of values, beliefs, convictions and
life principles.
Bowen Pseudo-Self - ANSWER An individual who is not differentiated and
may be fused with another person. Does not reason from own internal values but
borrows from others.
Bowen Societal Emotional Process - ANSWER Society influences how
families function. Bowen believed that the more differentiated individuals and
families resist destructive social influences (sexism, racism, etc.)
Bowen Therapy Structure - ANSWER 1. Assessment Phase - Patterns of
togetherness and individual exploration of family of origin.
2. Genogram Phase
3. Differentiation Phase
Bowen Going Home Again - ANSWER Technique that encourages clients to
go home and experience family of origin without emotional reactivity. Researches
