Theories in Marriage and Family Therapy

Marriage and Family Therapy I FLynn Wynne's term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many schizophrenic families is - pseudomutuality Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual's treatment when - they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse & they realized the family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this conce...

Marriage and Family CounselingMarriage and Family Coining - 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 - Diseng...

Marriage and Family CAccording to NCE experts what is the fastest growing clientele - those experiencing marriage and family issues What has become the most popular academic track in the counseling profession? - Marriage and family therapy What are the chances that a couple's problem will actually get worse in individual therapy? - 1 in 10 What is the success rate in marriage counseling - 60% What is the success rate for family therapy? - 70% Wh...

Marriage and family counseling Final EBowen Systems Therapy - A form of transgenerational family therapy, founded by Murray Bowen, that views patterned behavior as being innate in all of nature Collaborative Language Systems - A postmodern approach to family therapy, founded by Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian, that views families as language-and-meaning-generating systems. Focus on conversation and collaboration between therapist and client Contextual Family Therapy...

Marriage & Family Therapy Final ECoalition - An alliance between two persons or social units against a third. Communications theory - The study of relationships in terms of the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages. Double bind - A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment. Metacommunication - Every message has 2 levels, report and command; is ...

Marriage & Family MWhich of the following contributed to the development and growth of family therapy? - The initial establishment of marriage counseling; pg. 5 Which of the following groups, in the 1920s and 1930s, worked with families from an educational perspective to help them to better understand the dynamics of their family situation? - Marriage Counselors; pg. 5 Which one of these individuals is responsible for forming the American Association of Marriage Counselors ...

Marital and Family Therapy Nichols Etiology - causation of a diseased or condition. What caused the problem? Homeostasis - A balanced steady state of equilibrium. Family resist change keeping things the same. Double Blind - A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment. schism - splitting not working together, couples work together. skew -...

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 co...