Marriage and Family Counseling
According to NCE experts what is the fastest growing clientele -
those experiencing marriage and family issues
What has become the most popular academic track in the counseling profession? -
Marriage and family therapy
What are the chances that a couple's problem will actually get worse in individual therapy? -
1 in 10
What is the success rate in marriage counseling -
60%
What is the success rate for family therapy? -
70%
What have marriage and family therapists traditionally been members of? -
AAMFT American association of marriage and family therapists
The ACA has a family counseling division called what? -
The international association of marriage and family counselors
What does AAMFT feel family counseling is -
a profession
What does IAMFC feel marriage and family counseling is? -
A specialty that you acquire after snaring generic counseling experience
What is Ackerman referred to -
the grandfather of family therapy and the founder of psychoanalytic family therapy
When did Ackerman write the family was a social and emotional unit -
1937
What type of approach did Ackerman use to work with families -
psychodynamic by Freud
What were some of Ackerman's techniques -
dream analysis, life history, catharsis, transference
Psychoanalytic family theory stresses -
that one thing causes another
What is the term for one thing causing another -
linear causality
, What is object relations? -
An object is another person that the child wants to bond with to meet her or his needs. Intrapsychic
conflicts from one's FOO continue to affect the individual's relationship with his or her spouse and or
children
What gets in the way of people changing and why -
object relations and parental interjects
What are interjects -
imprints, or memories from the past
What are parental interjects? -
When you incorporate a parent's attitude as your own
What is splitting -
it occurs when a young child turns an object into either all good or all bad and then internalizes the
perception
What happens if splitting isn't resolved -
an adult will see someone as all bad or as all good OR they will see the same person as all good
sometimes and all bad sometimes
What is conjoint family therapy? -
When the therapist joins with the family to improve family functioning
What does the word conjoint mean -
that the therapist works with two or more family members
What are the 4 styles of dysfunctional family communication mentioned by Stair when a family
experiences stress -
the placator - who tries to placate and keep the peace, The blamer who insists that everything is
everyone else's fault, The super analyzer - who is emotionally detached, calm, cool, and prone to
intellectualization, The detractor who is totally removed and talks about things that are totally irrelevant
What are Stair and Whitaker classified as -
experientialist family counselors or experientialists
What is the collaborative model of family therapy? -
Each family member sees a different counselor and the counselor will occasionally collaborate
What is concurrent family therapy -
one counselor sees everyone individually
What is network family therapy -
when individuals from outside are brought in to take part in family therapy
What is multiple families/couples counseling? -
It resembles group therapy and the treatment audience is made up of several couples or families
According to NCE experts what is the fastest growing clientele -
those experiencing marriage and family issues
What has become the most popular academic track in the counseling profession? -
Marriage and family therapy
What are the chances that a couple's problem will actually get worse in individual therapy? -
1 in 10
What is the success rate in marriage counseling -
60%
What is the success rate for family therapy? -
70%
What have marriage and family therapists traditionally been members of? -
AAMFT American association of marriage and family therapists
The ACA has a family counseling division called what? -
The international association of marriage and family counselors
What does AAMFT feel family counseling is -
a profession
What does IAMFC feel marriage and family counseling is? -
A specialty that you acquire after snaring generic counseling experience
What is Ackerman referred to -
the grandfather of family therapy and the founder of psychoanalytic family therapy
When did Ackerman write the family was a social and emotional unit -
1937
What type of approach did Ackerman use to work with families -
psychodynamic by Freud
What were some of Ackerman's techniques -
dream analysis, life history, catharsis, transference
Psychoanalytic family theory stresses -
that one thing causes another
What is the term for one thing causing another -
linear causality
, What is object relations? -
An object is another person that the child wants to bond with to meet her or his needs. Intrapsychic
conflicts from one's FOO continue to affect the individual's relationship with his or her spouse and or
children
What gets in the way of people changing and why -
object relations and parental interjects
What are interjects -
imprints, or memories from the past
What are parental interjects? -
When you incorporate a parent's attitude as your own
What is splitting -
it occurs when a young child turns an object into either all good or all bad and then internalizes the
perception
What happens if splitting isn't resolved -
an adult will see someone as all bad or as all good OR they will see the same person as all good
sometimes and all bad sometimes
What is conjoint family therapy? -
When the therapist joins with the family to improve family functioning
What does the word conjoint mean -
that the therapist works with two or more family members
What are the 4 styles of dysfunctional family communication mentioned by Stair when a family
experiences stress -
the placator - who tries to placate and keep the peace, The blamer who insists that everything is
everyone else's fault, The super analyzer - who is emotionally detached, calm, cool, and prone to
intellectualization, The detractor who is totally removed and talks about things that are totally irrelevant
What are Stair and Whitaker classified as -
experientialist family counselors or experientialists
What is the collaborative model of family therapy? -
Each family member sees a different counselor and the counselor will occasionally collaborate
What is concurrent family therapy -
one counselor sees everyone individually
What is network family therapy -
when individuals from outside are brought in to take part in family therapy
What is multiple families/couples counseling? -
It resembles group therapy and the treatment audience is made up of several couples or families
