Don Bloch and his followers use teams with other medical care providers - nurses,
physicians, or rehabilitation specialists - to help families cope more effectively with
the consequences of medical illnesses. Further contributors to this model are Bill
Doherty and Mac Baird.
Working together to connect the big pictures of health care as complex and
hierarchical systems with the small pictures of patients' and families' individual and
unique journeys, Bill and Mac's extensive contributions to the field of family medicine
and collaborative care was brought to scale in 1983 when they published the first
book ever regarding the relevance of family systems theory to primary care. This set
into motion a revolution that would inspire an entire generation of students and
providers across the helping professions.
Bill then went on to co-launch (with Susan McDaniel and Jeri Hepworth) the specialty
of "medical family therapy" with a book by the same name in 1992, wherein he and his
colleagues introduced a biopsychosocial approach to working with and empowering
families with health problems while at the same time teaching providers new ways of
working together. Bill's work from there has gone on to bridge democratic public
theory and community organizing strategies (Citizen Health Care) into the arenas of
behavioral health and biomedicine along with Tai Mendenhall and Jerica Berge.
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, Collaborative Family Health Care:
Reuben Hill's model used to explain whether or not a stressful event would result in a
crisis in some families but not in others. A = the stressor, B = the family's crisis-meeting
resources, C = the family's definition of the stressor, and X = the crisis (see Double
ABC-X Family Stress Model).
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ABC-X Family Crisis Model:
A model for observing and assessing families designed by Olson, which measures the
family's levels of cohesion and adaptability. Families with too much cohesion tend to
function as enmeshed, and those with too little can be disengaged. Too much
adaptability can result in excessive and unpredictable change, while too little can
result in rigidity and failure to transition through the life cycle. Healthy families will be
balanced, having neither too much nor too little of either quality. Olson's evaluation
tool, FACES III gained popularity as it is used to apply the Circumplex Model to family
assessment.
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Circumplex Model:
Couples treatment in which each partner is seen by his/her own therapist (See
Concurrent and Conjoint Family Therapy).
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, Collaborative Couples Therapy:
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc., the primary national
professional association of MFTs. AAMFT is located in Washington, DC. Although
AAMFT makes no direct contribution to the licensing examination, many senior
members have contributed test items. AAMFT wrote the Code of Ethics, which is the
basis for the MFT ethical codes in all states.
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AAMFT:
1) From structural family therapy, perspective change is the process by which
elements of a system are transformed to new states or levels of organization.
2) developmental system change refers to the family life cycle and the transition of
the family from one stage of development to another. Strategic models see change as
occurring suddenly and resulting from shifts in beliefs (discontinuous change);
whereas the structural and transgenerational models see change as occurring though
a gradual learning process (continuous change).
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Change:
From narrative therapy, the view of self is plastic and continuously deconstructed and
reconstructed through interactions. The sense of self derives from experiences that fit
into the dominant narrative. The therapist and client co-construct a new self that is
more congruent with the client's preferred outcome.
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physicians, or rehabilitation specialists - to help families cope more effectively with
the consequences of medical illnesses. Further contributors to this model are Bill
Doherty and Mac Baird.
Working together to connect the big pictures of health care as complex and
hierarchical systems with the small pictures of patients' and families' individual and
unique journeys, Bill and Mac's extensive contributions to the field of family medicine
and collaborative care was brought to scale in 1983 when they published the first
book ever regarding the relevance of family systems theory to primary care. This set
into motion a revolution that would inspire an entire generation of students and
providers across the helping professions.
Bill then went on to co-launch (with Susan McDaniel and Jeri Hepworth) the specialty
of "medical family therapy" with a book by the same name in 1992, wherein he and his
colleagues introduced a biopsychosocial approach to working with and empowering
families with health problems while at the same time teaching providers new ways of
working together. Bill's work from there has gone on to bridge democratic public
theory and community organizing strategies (Citizen Health Care) into the arenas of
behavioral health and biomedicine along with Tai Mendenhall and Jerica Berge.
Give this one a try later!
, Collaborative Family Health Care:
Reuben Hill's model used to explain whether or not a stressful event would result in a
crisis in some families but not in others. A = the stressor, B = the family's crisis-meeting
resources, C = the family's definition of the stressor, and X = the crisis (see Double
ABC-X Family Stress Model).
Give this one a try later!
ABC-X Family Crisis Model:
A model for observing and assessing families designed by Olson, which measures the
family's levels of cohesion and adaptability. Families with too much cohesion tend to
function as enmeshed, and those with too little can be disengaged. Too much
adaptability can result in excessive and unpredictable change, while too little can
result in rigidity and failure to transition through the life cycle. Healthy families will be
balanced, having neither too much nor too little of either quality. Olson's evaluation
tool, FACES III gained popularity as it is used to apply the Circumplex Model to family
assessment.
Give this one a try later!
Circumplex Model:
Couples treatment in which each partner is seen by his/her own therapist (See
Concurrent and Conjoint Family Therapy).
Give this one a try later!
, Collaborative Couples Therapy:
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc., the primary national
professional association of MFTs. AAMFT is located in Washington, DC. Although
AAMFT makes no direct contribution to the licensing examination, many senior
members have contributed test items. AAMFT wrote the Code of Ethics, which is the
basis for the MFT ethical codes in all states.
Give this one a try later!
AAMFT:
1) From structural family therapy, perspective change is the process by which
elements of a system are transformed to new states or levels of organization.
2) developmental system change refers to the family life cycle and the transition of
the family from one stage of development to another. Strategic models see change as
occurring suddenly and resulting from shifts in beliefs (discontinuous change);
whereas the structural and transgenerational models see change as occurring though
a gradual learning process (continuous change).
Give this one a try later!
Change:
From narrative therapy, the view of self is plastic and continuously deconstructed and
reconstructed through interactions. The sense of self derives from experiences that fit
into the dominant narrative. The therapist and client co-construct a new self that is
more congruent with the client's preferred outcome.
Give this one a try later!
