Marriage and Family Counseling
joining -
A family therapist who beings a session by greeting individual family members by name and
asking for each person's view of the problem is demonstrating which strategy?
challenging cognitive constructions -
Structural therapists attempt to alter the family's view of reality by
alter the family structure -
The primary treatment goal of structural family is to
rigid, enmeshed, diffuse -
Disengaged subsystems are surrounded by ___________ boundaries while ________ subsystems
have __________ boundaries.
enactments -
Structural family therapists use ________ to observe and then change transactions that make up
family structure.
taking sides -
"Unbalancing" involves
live observation -
In order to discern a family's structure two things are necessary a theoretical system that explains
structure and
disengagement -
Minchin's term for psychological isolation that results from overly rigid boundaries around
individuals and subsystems in a family is
accommodation -
When two people marry, they must learn to negotiate the nature of the boundary between them, as
well as the boundary separating them from the outside. This structural requirement is known as
functionalists -
Structural family therapists are ______, because they believe symptoms in one member are
expressive of the entire family structure.
differentiate individuals and subsystems by strengthening the boundaries around them -
The goal in structural family therapy when working with enmeshed families is to
joining -
Structuralists believe the family must first accept the therapist, in a process called ________,
which allows the therapist to increase stress and unbalance the family homeostasis, thus opening the
way for structural transformation in the family.
, a cross-generational coalition between mother and child -
When parents are unable to resolve the conflicts between them, a common pattern is to continue to
argue through the children. When father says mother is too permissive, she says he's too strict. He may
in turn withdraw, and she responds to the child with excessive concern and devotion. The structural
term which best describes the resulting family structure is
an enactment -
An interaction stimulated in structural family therapy in order to observe and then change
transactions which make up family structure is called
opening -
During which phase of structural family therapy does assessment occur?
interrupt rigid patterns of conflict-avoidance, break families loose from their patterns of equilibrium,
extend interactional sequences beyond the point where dysfunctional homeostasis is reinstated, all of
these choices -
In order to highlight and modify interactions in the family, structural therapists use intensity to
Shaping competence -
________ is another method of modifying interactions, which structural therapists use to help
family members empty more functional alternatives already in their repertoire of skills.
anorexia -
Minchin, Rosman, and Baker (1978) reported a 90% improvement rate in the results of their
treatment study of structural family therapy in treating
unexpressed emotion -
Experiential family therapists believe ________ is/are the primary cause of dysfunction in families.
expanding experience -
Experiential therapy differs from most systems approaches with respect to its emphasis on
_______ versus techniques that specifically facilitate interaction.
mystification -
R.D. Laing's concept that many families distort their children's experience by denying or relabeling
it is known as
restructuring of the family system -
the goals of experiential family therapy would NOT include
family connectedness -
Carl Whitaker, like Murray Bowen, believes that personal growth (i.e., individuation) also requires
family myths -
A collection of beliefs based on a distortion of historical reality and shared by all family members,
which help shape the rules governing family functioning are known as
existential encounter -
joining -
A family therapist who beings a session by greeting individual family members by name and
asking for each person's view of the problem is demonstrating which strategy?
challenging cognitive constructions -
Structural therapists attempt to alter the family's view of reality by
alter the family structure -
The primary treatment goal of structural family is to
rigid, enmeshed, diffuse -
Disengaged subsystems are surrounded by ___________ boundaries while ________ subsystems
have __________ boundaries.
enactments -
Structural family therapists use ________ to observe and then change transactions that make up
family structure.
taking sides -
"Unbalancing" involves
live observation -
In order to discern a family's structure two things are necessary a theoretical system that explains
structure and
disengagement -
Minchin's term for psychological isolation that results from overly rigid boundaries around
individuals and subsystems in a family is
accommodation -
When two people marry, they must learn to negotiate the nature of the boundary between them, as
well as the boundary separating them from the outside. This structural requirement is known as
functionalists -
Structural family therapists are ______, because they believe symptoms in one member are
expressive of the entire family structure.
differentiate individuals and subsystems by strengthening the boundaries around them -
The goal in structural family therapy when working with enmeshed families is to
joining -
Structuralists believe the family must first accept the therapist, in a process called ________,
which allows the therapist to increase stress and unbalance the family homeostasis, thus opening the
way for structural transformation in the family.
, a cross-generational coalition between mother and child -
When parents are unable to resolve the conflicts between them, a common pattern is to continue to
argue through the children. When father says mother is too permissive, she says he's too strict. He may
in turn withdraw, and she responds to the child with excessive concern and devotion. The structural
term which best describes the resulting family structure is
an enactment -
An interaction stimulated in structural family therapy in order to observe and then change
transactions which make up family structure is called
opening -
During which phase of structural family therapy does assessment occur?
interrupt rigid patterns of conflict-avoidance, break families loose from their patterns of equilibrium,
extend interactional sequences beyond the point where dysfunctional homeostasis is reinstated, all of
these choices -
In order to highlight and modify interactions in the family, structural therapists use intensity to
Shaping competence -
________ is another method of modifying interactions, which structural therapists use to help
family members empty more functional alternatives already in their repertoire of skills.
anorexia -
Minchin, Rosman, and Baker (1978) reported a 90% improvement rate in the results of their
treatment study of structural family therapy in treating
unexpressed emotion -
Experiential family therapists believe ________ is/are the primary cause of dysfunction in families.
expanding experience -
Experiential therapy differs from most systems approaches with respect to its emphasis on
_______ versus techniques that specifically facilitate interaction.
mystification -
R.D. Laing's concept that many families distort their children's experience by denying or relabeling
it is known as
restructuring of the family system -
the goals of experiential family therapy would NOT include
family connectedness -
Carl Whitaker, like Murray Bowen, believes that personal growth (i.e., individuation) also requires
family myths -
A collection of beliefs based on a distortion of historical reality and shared by all family members,
which help shape the rules governing family functioning are known as
existential encounter -
