MFT Clinical Chapter 1 History of MFT
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How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? - ✔✔- Changing social dynamics after
WWII
- family roles became less predictable and options for individuals increased creating more
interpersonal tension
- divorce rates increased
- the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that made it difficult for the family
to cope as a system
- became more accepting of professional help
- some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems could be better resolved within
the context of the family
Goldenberg & Goldenberg five factors that contributed to the evolution of family therapy. -
✔✔1) the extension of psychological treatment, eventually including work with whole families.
2) the introduction of general systems theory
,3) The investigation of the family's role in the development of schizophrenia in one of its
members
4) The development of the fields of child guidance and marital counseling.
5) The increased interest in clinical techniques such as group therapy
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of psychology? -
✔✔Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards family therapy
models? - ✔✔Clinicians discovered the powerful influence of the family on treatment outcomes
and identified problems that seemed more likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed to the growth of family
therapy models? - ✔✔- clinical and research developments in hospital psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, Who founded psychoanalysis? - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? - ✔✔Freud's theory about the individual as he/she negotiated the stages
of psychosexual development. The theory focuses on individuals but acknowledges the
importance of the family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone other than the patient would
contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into the causes of schizophrenia
during the 1950s? - ✔✔1) When the patients got better, someone else in the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often deteriorated when they returned home.
General Systems Theory - ✔✔Researchers were discovering that a whole group has properties
and characteristics that emerge from the group itself, beyond those of its individual members.
Once working with families, this concept became equally applicable
Who initiated the Child Guidance Movement? - ✔✔Alfred Adler in the early 1900s
Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
Graded A+
How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? - ✔✔- Changing social dynamics after
WWII
- family roles became less predictable and options for individuals increased creating more
interpersonal tension
- divorce rates increased
- the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that made it difficult for the family
to cope as a system
- became more accepting of professional help
- some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems could be better resolved within
the context of the family
Goldenberg & Goldenberg five factors that contributed to the evolution of family therapy. -
✔✔1) the extension of psychological treatment, eventually including work with whole families.
2) the introduction of general systems theory
,3) The investigation of the family's role in the development of schizophrenia in one of its
members
4) The development of the fields of child guidance and marital counseling.
5) The increased interest in clinical techniques such as group therapy
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of psychology? -
✔✔Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards family therapy
models? - ✔✔Clinicians discovered the powerful influence of the family on treatment outcomes
and identified problems that seemed more likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed to the growth of family
therapy models? - ✔✔- clinical and research developments in hospital psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, Who founded psychoanalysis? - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? - ✔✔Freud's theory about the individual as he/she negotiated the stages
of psychosexual development. The theory focuses on individuals but acknowledges the
importance of the family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone other than the patient would
contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into the causes of schizophrenia
during the 1950s? - ✔✔1) When the patients got better, someone else in the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often deteriorated when they returned home.
General Systems Theory - ✔✔Researchers were discovering that a whole group has properties
and characteristics that emerge from the group itself, beyond those of its individual members.
Once working with families, this concept became equally applicable
Who initiated the Child Guidance Movement? - ✔✔Alfred Adler in the early 1900s
