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1. 3 primary phe- Psychoanalysis, group therapy, and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's
nomena that research of family communication)
emerged into
MFT
2. Betrand Russell Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of abstraction)
3. Norbert Weiner Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features:
feedback is an essential feature of ettective communication & said a communica-
tion theory which focuses only on information overlooks important dimensions of
human communication. (Overlooks feelings, motives, needs, history, etc.)
4. Ludwig von General Systems Theory- parts of systems are interrelated, and the whole is
Bertalanffy greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt Lewis within
Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
5. John Bowlby attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment (anxious-resistant
and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
6. Paul Popenoe Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast
7. Emily Mudd -1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became AAMFT in 1979.
8. John Bell May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family therapy
groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase,
parent-centered phase, and family-centered phase)
9. Robert MacGre- Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on families who came
gor from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
10. Don Jackson Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen together
11. Josef Breuer
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studied the ettects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with hysteria, first
treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later
referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what
we now know Psychoanalysis
12. Alfred Adler Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal drives (Freud)
and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in
Austria, which was brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: over-
compensation for felt inferiority, social interest, sibling birth order, and working
with families in front of a live audience.
13. Nathan Acker- Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family system as a client).
man He was always lively and open to ettective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means
to understanding the hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most
notable intervention: Tickling the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating
the members of a family to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER
OF FAMILY THERAPY
14. Lyman Wynne Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe mental and
physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony
and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility-
volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both attection and splits,
Rubber-Fence boundary- the families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impermeable to information from outside systems.
15. Kurt Lewin Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than the sum of its individuals".
(group therapy) Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation and
readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react
to things ditterently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client
to integrate the new point of view into the organization as well as the individual
personality).
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16. Wilfred Bion Studied groups, importance of group dynamics, Process vs. content
(Group therapy)
17. Jacob Moreno Created a term Psychodrama
(Group therapy)
18. Peter Laque Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families together in a large
group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and encounter
groups. Co-therapists were often used.
19. David Levy Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of schizophrenia,
which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
20. Frieda schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive, rejecting and insecure
Fromm-Reich- women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
mann
21. Theodore Lidz Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the etiology of illness
as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother
was the cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are
overly focused on their own problems which harms marriage, the individuals
and children, Marital skew- one parent dominates the family, and the other is
dependent.
22. The Mental Re- Gregory Bateson, William Fry, Jay Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
search Institute
(MRI) as Palo Alto
23. Double bind a situation in which an individual is given two ditterent and inconsistent mes-
sages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship, repeated
experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract
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injunction, third injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, indi-
vidual becomes conditioned to double-bind.
24. Milton Erickson Much of his contributions were centered on the idea that resistance to change was
a key obstacle to success in therapy. Paradoxical techniques to address resistance
to changeHis therapy was done TO not WITH client. Emphasized brief therapies
that were ahistoric and problem focused.
25. Carl Whitaker symbolic-experiential family therapy. Blank slate. Therapeutic usefulness of
self-disclosure and transparency, encouraging therapists be more themselves in
therapy. Encouragement of co-therapists.
26. Jay Haley Strategic Family Therapy. Used directives to get the families to change their
behaviors and thereby break repetitive behavioral cycles.
27. Virginia Satir was often empathic with the family. She identified five styles of relating with a
family. To explore relationships within the family, she used experiential/expressive
techniques such as family sculpting and taking a family life chronology. Was
associated with experiential family therapy. Developed Human Validation Process
Model.
28. Murray Bowen Known for work in intergenerational family therapy which utilized genograms;
proposed the idea of triangulation
29. Ivan Boszor- Contextual Family Therapy. Loyalty and Trust between members.
menyi-Nagy
30. Salvador Min- Structural Family Therapy: uses joining, enactment, boundary making, and mime-
uchin sis techniques
31. Fred and Bunny Developed Integrative Model of Family Therapy.
Duhl and David
Kantor
1. 3 primary phe- Psychoanalysis, group therapy, and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's
nomena that research of family communication)
emerged into
MFT
2. Betrand Russell Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of abstraction)
3. Norbert Weiner Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features:
feedback is an essential feature of ettective communication & said a communica-
tion theory which focuses only on information overlooks important dimensions of
human communication. (Overlooks feelings, motives, needs, history, etc.)
4. Ludwig von General Systems Theory- parts of systems are interrelated, and the whole is
Bertalanffy greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt Lewis within
Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
5. John Bowlby attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment (anxious-resistant
and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
6. Paul Popenoe Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast
7. Emily Mudd -1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became AAMFT in 1979.
8. John Bell May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family therapy
groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase,
parent-centered phase, and family-centered phase)
9. Robert MacGre- Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on families who came
gor from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
10. Don Jackson Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen together
11. Josef Breuer
, LMFT exam Questions With Correct Answers Already Passed!!!
studied the ettects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with hysteria, first
treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later
referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what
we now know Psychoanalysis
12. Alfred Adler Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal drives (Freud)
and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in
Austria, which was brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: over-
compensation for felt inferiority, social interest, sibling birth order, and working
with families in front of a live audience.
13. Nathan Acker- Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family system as a client).
man He was always lively and open to ettective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means
to understanding the hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most
notable intervention: Tickling the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating
the members of a family to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER
OF FAMILY THERAPY
14. Lyman Wynne Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe mental and
physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony
and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility-
volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both attection and splits,
Rubber-Fence boundary- the families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impermeable to information from outside systems.
15. Kurt Lewin Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than the sum of its individuals".
(group therapy) Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation and
readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react
to things ditterently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client
to integrate the new point of view into the organization as well as the individual
personality).
, LMFT exam Questions With Correct Answers Already Passed!!!
16. Wilfred Bion Studied groups, importance of group dynamics, Process vs. content
(Group therapy)
17. Jacob Moreno Created a term Psychodrama
(Group therapy)
18. Peter Laque Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families together in a large
group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and encounter
groups. Co-therapists were often used.
19. David Levy Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of schizophrenia,
which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
20. Frieda schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive, rejecting and insecure
Fromm-Reich- women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
mann
21. Theodore Lidz Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the etiology of illness
as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother
was the cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are
overly focused on their own problems which harms marriage, the individuals
and children, Marital skew- one parent dominates the family, and the other is
dependent.
22. The Mental Re- Gregory Bateson, William Fry, Jay Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
search Institute
(MRI) as Palo Alto
23. Double bind a situation in which an individual is given two ditterent and inconsistent mes-
sages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship, repeated
experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract
, LMFT exam Questions With Correct Answers Already Passed!!!
injunction, third injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, indi-
vidual becomes conditioned to double-bind.
24. Milton Erickson Much of his contributions were centered on the idea that resistance to change was
a key obstacle to success in therapy. Paradoxical techniques to address resistance
to changeHis therapy was done TO not WITH client. Emphasized brief therapies
that were ahistoric and problem focused.
25. Carl Whitaker symbolic-experiential family therapy. Blank slate. Therapeutic usefulness of
self-disclosure and transparency, encouraging therapists be more themselves in
therapy. Encouragement of co-therapists.
26. Jay Haley Strategic Family Therapy. Used directives to get the families to change their
behaviors and thereby break repetitive behavioral cycles.
27. Virginia Satir was often empathic with the family. She identified five styles of relating with a
family. To explore relationships within the family, she used experiential/expressive
techniques such as family sculpting and taking a family life chronology. Was
associated with experiential family therapy. Developed Human Validation Process
Model.
28. Murray Bowen Known for work in intergenerational family therapy which utilized genograms;
proposed the idea of triangulation
29. Ivan Boszor- Contextual Family Therapy. Loyalty and Trust between members.
menyi-Nagy
30. Salvador Min- Structural Family Therapy: uses joining, enactment, boundary making, and mime-
uchin sis techniques
31. Fred and Bunny Developed Integrative Model of Family Therapy.
Duhl and David
Kantor
