Marital and Family Therapy Nichols 1-3
Etiology -
causation of a diseased or condition. What caused the problem?
Homeostasis -
A balanced steady state of equilibrium. Family resist change keeping things the same.
Double Blind -
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction
in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment.
schism -
splitting not working together, couples work together.
skew -
one partner dominates the other.
homogamy -
A marriage or union between partners that match according to that criterion. A marriage between
individuals who are in some culturally important way similar to each other.
heterogamy -
Refers to a marriage between two individuals that differ in a certain criterion and is contrasted with
homogamy.
Triangle -
triangle is a three-person system; according to bowen the smallest stable unit of human relations.
scapegoating -
the identifying patient is the problem, everything is blame on them. A member of the family,
usually the identified patient, who is the object of displaced conflict or criticism.
paradox -
logically inconsistence for example, Jumbo shrimp, self-contradictory statement based on a valid
deduction from acceptable premises.
termination -
when the session for counseling therapy is finished
boundaries -
emotional and physical barriers that protect and enhance the integrity of individuals subsystems,
and families.
cybernetics -
The study of systems.
Etiology -
causation of a diseased or condition. What caused the problem?
Homeostasis -
A balanced steady state of equilibrium. Family resist change keeping things the same.
Double Blind -
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction
in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment.
schism -
splitting not working together, couples work together.
skew -
one partner dominates the other.
homogamy -
A marriage or union between partners that match according to that criterion. A marriage between
individuals who are in some culturally important way similar to each other.
heterogamy -
Refers to a marriage between two individuals that differ in a certain criterion and is contrasted with
homogamy.
Triangle -
triangle is a three-person system; according to bowen the smallest stable unit of human relations.
scapegoating -
the identifying patient is the problem, everything is blame on them. A member of the family,
usually the identified patient, who is the object of displaced conflict or criticism.
paradox -
logically inconsistence for example, Jumbo shrimp, self-contradictory statement based on a valid
deduction from acceptable premises.
termination -
when the session for counseling therapy is finished
boundaries -
emotional and physical barriers that protect and enhance the integrity of individuals subsystems,
and families.
cybernetics -
The study of systems.
