Marital & Family Counseling
Fundamental Arrtibution Error -
The belief that human behavior is best attributed to person variables rather than
environmental/contextual variables
What is the fundamental premise of family systems therapy? -
that people are products of their social contexts and environments
When did clinicians begin treating whole families together? -
Mid 1950s
What is the golden age of family therapy or systems approaches? -
1975 to 1985
What period represents social constructionism? -
1986 to present
social constructionism -
the idea that our experience is a function of the way we think about it
what caused the shift away from systems perspective? -
social constructionism
What did therapists notice when working with schizophrenics? -
That when a patient got better, someone else in the family got worse
some families were perceived as needing a symptomatic member
Who started family therapy? -
John Elderkin Bell
Don Jackson
Nathan Ackerman
Murray Bowen
What do family members in therapy talk actually talk about? -
reconstructed memories that resemble the original experiences
What was Freud interested in? -
Interested in the family remembered, not the living one
He maintained being against having direct contact with a patient's family
what are the stages of family therapy -
initial contact
first interview
, early phase
middle phase
termination
initial contact -
get an overview of the presenting problem
first interview -
to build an alliance and develop hypotheses
early phase -
devoted to refining the therapist's hypothesis into a formulation about what is maintaining the
problem, and work towards solving it
middle phase -
therapist to become less active and encourage family members to be more proactive problem solvers
termination -
to recap lessons learned and provide closure
What did family therapy seek to do? -
extend and apply the group dynamic literature to the clinical treatment of families
Quasi stationary social equilibrium -
Changing group behavior requires "unfreezing," or a shake-up of the group's beliefs. (Kurt Lewin)
disrupting family homeostasis -
unfreezing or shaking up families and their roels
What do roles in families tend to be? -
Reciprocal and complementary
What is family therapy based on? -
changing the organization of the family, and then once transformed, the life of the individual family
members is altered
Cybernetics -
identified feedback loops which are mechanisms for self regulating the family system
homeostasis -
dysfunctional families resist change
Communication therapists -
adopted black box model of therapy
concentrates on input and output
communication therapy -
assumes circular causality and analyses interactions occurring in the here and now
Fundamental Arrtibution Error -
The belief that human behavior is best attributed to person variables rather than
environmental/contextual variables
What is the fundamental premise of family systems therapy? -
that people are products of their social contexts and environments
When did clinicians begin treating whole families together? -
Mid 1950s
What is the golden age of family therapy or systems approaches? -
1975 to 1985
What period represents social constructionism? -
1986 to present
social constructionism -
the idea that our experience is a function of the way we think about it
what caused the shift away from systems perspective? -
social constructionism
What did therapists notice when working with schizophrenics? -
That when a patient got better, someone else in the family got worse
some families were perceived as needing a symptomatic member
Who started family therapy? -
John Elderkin Bell
Don Jackson
Nathan Ackerman
Murray Bowen
What do family members in therapy talk actually talk about? -
reconstructed memories that resemble the original experiences
What was Freud interested in? -
Interested in the family remembered, not the living one
He maintained being against having direct contact with a patient's family
what are the stages of family therapy -
initial contact
first interview
, early phase
middle phase
termination
initial contact -
get an overview of the presenting problem
first interview -
to build an alliance and develop hypotheses
early phase -
devoted to refining the therapist's hypothesis into a formulation about what is maintaining the
problem, and work towards solving it
middle phase -
therapist to become less active and encourage family members to be more proactive problem solvers
termination -
to recap lessons learned and provide closure
What did family therapy seek to do? -
extend and apply the group dynamic literature to the clinical treatment of families
Quasi stationary social equilibrium -
Changing group behavior requires "unfreezing," or a shake-up of the group's beliefs. (Kurt Lewin)
disrupting family homeostasis -
unfreezing or shaking up families and their roels
What do roles in families tend to be? -
Reciprocal and complementary
What is family therapy based on? -
changing the organization of the family, and then once transformed, the life of the individual family
members is altered
Cybernetics -
identified feedback loops which are mechanisms for self regulating the family system
homeostasis -
dysfunctional families resist change
Communication therapists -
adopted black box model of therapy
concentrates on input and output
communication therapy -
assumes circular causality and analyses interactions occurring in the here and now
