Marriage and Family Therapy Midterm
Qualified Mental Health Professionals -
•Psychiatry
•Psychology
•Social Worker
•Professional Counseling
•Marriage and Family Therapy
What is family therapy? -
Family therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on altering interactions between a
couple, within a nuclear family or extended family, or between a family and other interpersonal
systems, with the goal of alleviating problems initially presented by individual family members, family
subsystems, the family as a while, or other referral sources
General Systems Theory -
applied to family systems, moves away from individual focus
Traditional approaches to mental health were viewed from a -
linear perspective
Linear Approach -
• Primary relationship being therapist and patient
• The client was isolated from the influence of others (individual therapy)
• Therapy is private and confidential
• Cause and effect approach to treatment
Systems approach -
• Provided the idea that the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
• Relationships are reciprocal and therefore pathology should be viewed as circular rather than cause
and effect
• Families engage in patterns of interaction that support and maintain pathology
Linear -
Individuals experience problems because of who they are
Systems -
Individuals experience problems because of the role they have in a system, how they fit contextually
in society, and/or the rules the system gives them
Circular Causality -
Movement away from linear thinking, starting to view problems as circular, introducing the notion
of circular causality.
Systems Theory and Family Therapy -
, Systems theory is a broad look at families. The field of family therapy took the broad theory and
narrowed it down into various models of family therapy, based on various philosophies of human
interaction and human growth
Systems Theory views problems as -
circular
Homeostasis -
Maintaining the status quo. A family engages in interaction patterns that maintain a purpose.
Negative feedback -
Mechanism used to keep the status quo. Family members engage in negative feedback to maintain
homeostasis.
Positive feedback -
Mechanism used to change the status quo. Family members engage in positive feedback to change
the status quo.
Model is made up of -
its theory of pathology, theory of change, and the role of the therapist.
Models are used as -
as a guide for the therapist and family therapists are trained in depth on the models
Common Factors Model -
- The therapeutic relationship
- Extra Therapeutic Change
- Technique
- Placebo or Expectancy
Lambert's factors -
extra-therapeutic events
technique
placebo/expectancy
the therapeutic relationship
Bowen (Experiential Family Therapy) -
•Triangulation?
•Sibling Position
•Emotional Cutoff
•Enmeshment
Bowen's Goals -
• Learn to connect emotionally by developing relationship with every member of one's family
• Develop intellectual and emotional balance by increasing client's ability to distinguish between
thinking and feeling
Carl Whitaker - Theory of the absurd -
Qualified Mental Health Professionals -
•Psychiatry
•Psychology
•Social Worker
•Professional Counseling
•Marriage and Family Therapy
What is family therapy? -
Family therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on altering interactions between a
couple, within a nuclear family or extended family, or between a family and other interpersonal
systems, with the goal of alleviating problems initially presented by individual family members, family
subsystems, the family as a while, or other referral sources
General Systems Theory -
applied to family systems, moves away from individual focus
Traditional approaches to mental health were viewed from a -
linear perspective
Linear Approach -
• Primary relationship being therapist and patient
• The client was isolated from the influence of others (individual therapy)
• Therapy is private and confidential
• Cause and effect approach to treatment
Systems approach -
• Provided the idea that the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
• Relationships are reciprocal and therefore pathology should be viewed as circular rather than cause
and effect
• Families engage in patterns of interaction that support and maintain pathology
Linear -
Individuals experience problems because of who they are
Systems -
Individuals experience problems because of the role they have in a system, how they fit contextually
in society, and/or the rules the system gives them
Circular Causality -
Movement away from linear thinking, starting to view problems as circular, introducing the notion
of circular causality.
Systems Theory and Family Therapy -
, Systems theory is a broad look at families. The field of family therapy took the broad theory and
narrowed it down into various models of family therapy, based on various philosophies of human
interaction and human growth
Systems Theory views problems as -
circular
Homeostasis -
Maintaining the status quo. A family engages in interaction patterns that maintain a purpose.
Negative feedback -
Mechanism used to keep the status quo. Family members engage in negative feedback to maintain
homeostasis.
Positive feedback -
Mechanism used to change the status quo. Family members engage in positive feedback to change
the status quo.
Model is made up of -
its theory of pathology, theory of change, and the role of the therapist.
Models are used as -
as a guide for the therapist and family therapists are trained in depth on the models
Common Factors Model -
- The therapeutic relationship
- Extra Therapeutic Change
- Technique
- Placebo or Expectancy
Lambert's factors -
extra-therapeutic events
technique
placebo/expectancy
the therapeutic relationship
Bowen (Experiential Family Therapy) -
•Triangulation?
•Sibling Position
•Emotional Cutoff
•Enmeshment
Bowen's Goals -
• Learn to connect emotionally by developing relationship with every member of one's family
• Develop intellectual and emotional balance by increasing client's ability to distinguish between
thinking and feeling
Carl Whitaker - Theory of the absurd -
