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Interactional patterns - ✔✔Pursuer-distancer or attacker-blamer patterns (EFT)
Interpretation - ✔✔The therapist's attempts to explain the inner significance of the client's thoughts,
feelings, memories, and behaviors.
Introject - ✔✔Internalized objects become , and are split into being either all-good
or all-bad. (Object Relations)
Isomorphism - ✔✔Two or more systems or subsystems exhibit similar or parallel structures - structures
or patterns are repeated (therapist who sees a family and they reject his suggestions becomes rejecting
of his supervisor's suggestions) (Cybernetics)
Kinesthetic communication - ✔✔Refers to body motion. (Communications Theory)
Landscape of action questions - ✔✔Questions that explore meanings within the preferred narrative.
How does the preferred narrative reflect on them as a person for example (Narrative)
Ledger - ✔✔the manner in which individuals within a family keep track of and balance debts and
entitlements (Contextual)
Legacy - ✔✔Attributes or qualities received from his or her parents
Levelers - ✔✔Those demonstrating functional and effective communication styles. (Satir's
Communications Approach)
Loyalty - ✔✔Central theory of contextual family therapy. Internalized expectations of and obligations to
his or her FOO. Exerts a powerful influence over the person's functioning.
, Mapping the Influence of the Person - ✔✔Exploring the role the person has had on the life of the
problem. (Narrative)
Mapping the influence of the problem - ✔✔Exploring the role that the problem has had in the person's
life (Narrative)
Marital Schism - ✔✔The parents are overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
the individuals and the children. (Theodore Lidz)
Marital Skew - ✔✔"One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent;
children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction or schizophrenia
result" (Theodore Lidz)
Merit - ✔✔Earned when parents are responsible, ethical, and fair. Earns loyalty from maturation from
childhood to adulthood (Contextual)
Metaphoric Task - ✔✔Prescribing a directive to a family that engages them in a conversation or activity
that is easier or more accessible than talking about the problem directly (Strategic)
Mimesis - ✔✔The therapist attempts to replicate the family's observable behaviors, joining through
mimic (Structural)
Miracle Question - ✔✔A solution-focused technique that asks clients to imagine how their life would be
different if they woke up tomorrow and they no longer had their problem.
Model Integration Analysis - ✔✔From Satir, the child's method for making sense of his/her parents'
differences and selecting those aspects of parental male/female role models that become a blueprint for
his/her behavior and expectations in other relationships.
Modeling Communication - ✔✔A key component to Satir's approach to working with families was the
therapist's capacity to effectively model functional, healthy communication.
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Interactional patterns - ✔✔Pursuer-distancer or attacker-blamer patterns (EFT)
Interpretation - ✔✔The therapist's attempts to explain the inner significance of the client's thoughts,
feelings, memories, and behaviors.
Introject - ✔✔Internalized objects become , and are split into being either all-good
or all-bad. (Object Relations)
Isomorphism - ✔✔Two or more systems or subsystems exhibit similar or parallel structures - structures
or patterns are repeated (therapist who sees a family and they reject his suggestions becomes rejecting
of his supervisor's suggestions) (Cybernetics)
Kinesthetic communication - ✔✔Refers to body motion. (Communications Theory)
Landscape of action questions - ✔✔Questions that explore meanings within the preferred narrative.
How does the preferred narrative reflect on them as a person for example (Narrative)
Ledger - ✔✔the manner in which individuals within a family keep track of and balance debts and
entitlements (Contextual)
Legacy - ✔✔Attributes or qualities received from his or her parents
Levelers - ✔✔Those demonstrating functional and effective communication styles. (Satir's
Communications Approach)
Loyalty - ✔✔Central theory of contextual family therapy. Internalized expectations of and obligations to
his or her FOO. Exerts a powerful influence over the person's functioning.
, Mapping the Influence of the Person - ✔✔Exploring the role the person has had on the life of the
problem. (Narrative)
Mapping the influence of the problem - ✔✔Exploring the role that the problem has had in the person's
life (Narrative)
Marital Schism - ✔✔The parents are overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
the individuals and the children. (Theodore Lidz)
Marital Skew - ✔✔"One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent;
children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction or schizophrenia
result" (Theodore Lidz)
Merit - ✔✔Earned when parents are responsible, ethical, and fair. Earns loyalty from maturation from
childhood to adulthood (Contextual)
Metaphoric Task - ✔✔Prescribing a directive to a family that engages them in a conversation or activity
that is easier or more accessible than talking about the problem directly (Strategic)
Mimesis - ✔✔The therapist attempts to replicate the family's observable behaviors, joining through
mimic (Structural)
Miracle Question - ✔✔A solution-focused technique that asks clients to imagine how their life would be
different if they woke up tomorrow and they no longer had their problem.
Model Integration Analysis - ✔✔From Satir, the child's method for making sense of his/her parents'
differences and selecting those aspects of parental male/female role models that become a blueprint for
his/her behavior and expectations in other relationships.
Modeling Communication - ✔✔A key component to Satir's approach to working with families was the
therapist's capacity to effectively model functional, healthy communication.
