Marriage and Family Therapy
Bowen -
Developer of Family Systems Theory.
Psychodymanic and Systems Approach -
Bowen's family theory is the bridge between ______ and ____
Emotional Cutoff -
Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family
Nuclear family emotional system -
Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the same level differentiation
equivalent to their own
Sibling position -
Research on the relationship between birth order and personality with clarifying his own thinking
regarding the influence
Differentiation of self -
demonstrated by the degree to which a person can think, plan, and follow his or her own values or
convictions, particulary around anxiety-provoking issues, without having his or her behavior
automatically driven by the emotional cues from others
Triangulate (Triangle) -
Draw in a signficant family member to form a three-person interaction
Family projection process -
When a child receives the parents' own low levels of differentiation and becomes that way him, or
herself.
Multigenerational Transmission Process -
Severe dysfunction is conceptualized as the result of chronic anxiety transmitted over several
generations.
Societal regression -
Society, like the family, contains within it opposing forces toward undifferentiation and toward
individuation
Genograms -
Helps to shed light on a family's multigenerational relationship pattern
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy -
Pioneer of contextual therapy
Relational Ethics -
, Also known as contextual therapy (Value and Ethics)
Structural theorists emphasize -
The wholeness of the family system; The influence of the family's hierarchical organization; The
interdependent functionng of its subsystems
Structural family therapist is concerned with -
Context of the family structure
Salvador Minuchin -
Structural approach in family therapy is primarily associated with
Philadelphia Child Guidance Center -
1965-1975 Minuchin took on the directorship of the
Family Subsystems -
Spousal, parental, and sibling subsystems
Structuralists typically follow this order -
Joining and accommodating; Assessing family interactions; Monitoring family dysfunctional sets;
restructuring transactional patterns
Family mapping -
used as an assessment device (pictorial device)
Tracking -
The structural therapist adopts symbols of the family's life gathered from members' communication
and deliberately uses them in conversation with the family
Psychoeducation -
Troubled family; schizophrenic; substance abuse and improve their relationship skills
Medical Family Therapy -
Biopsychosocial approach and systems approach
George Engel (1977) -
First to call for an integrated approach to medical problems that he designeate the "biopsychosocial
approach."
Relationship Enhancement Programs -
RE - created by Bernard Guerney, Jr. (1977) at Penn State
RE - sets of core skills -
Expressive, Empathic, Conversive, Generalization and Maintenance
Conversive -
Mode-Switching (RE set of core skill)
Marriage Preparation Program -
Bowen -
Developer of Family Systems Theory.
Psychodymanic and Systems Approach -
Bowen's family theory is the bridge between ______ and ____
Emotional Cutoff -
Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family
Nuclear family emotional system -
Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the same level differentiation
equivalent to their own
Sibling position -
Research on the relationship between birth order and personality with clarifying his own thinking
regarding the influence
Differentiation of self -
demonstrated by the degree to which a person can think, plan, and follow his or her own values or
convictions, particulary around anxiety-provoking issues, without having his or her behavior
automatically driven by the emotional cues from others
Triangulate (Triangle) -
Draw in a signficant family member to form a three-person interaction
Family projection process -
When a child receives the parents' own low levels of differentiation and becomes that way him, or
herself.
Multigenerational Transmission Process -
Severe dysfunction is conceptualized as the result of chronic anxiety transmitted over several
generations.
Societal regression -
Society, like the family, contains within it opposing forces toward undifferentiation and toward
individuation
Genograms -
Helps to shed light on a family's multigenerational relationship pattern
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy -
Pioneer of contextual therapy
Relational Ethics -
, Also known as contextual therapy (Value and Ethics)
Structural theorists emphasize -
The wholeness of the family system; The influence of the family's hierarchical organization; The
interdependent functionng of its subsystems
Structural family therapist is concerned with -
Context of the family structure
Salvador Minuchin -
Structural approach in family therapy is primarily associated with
Philadelphia Child Guidance Center -
1965-1975 Minuchin took on the directorship of the
Family Subsystems -
Spousal, parental, and sibling subsystems
Structuralists typically follow this order -
Joining and accommodating; Assessing family interactions; Monitoring family dysfunctional sets;
restructuring transactional patterns
Family mapping -
used as an assessment device (pictorial device)
Tracking -
The structural therapist adopts symbols of the family's life gathered from members' communication
and deliberately uses them in conversation with the family
Psychoeducation -
Troubled family; schizophrenic; substance abuse and improve their relationship skills
Medical Family Therapy -
Biopsychosocial approach and systems approach
George Engel (1977) -
First to call for an integrated approach to medical problems that he designeate the "biopsychosocial
approach."
Relationship Enhancement Programs -
RE - created by Bernard Guerney, Jr. (1977) at Penn State
RE - sets of core skills -
Expressive, Empathic, Conversive, Generalization and Maintenance
Conversive -
Mode-Switching (RE set of core skill)
Marriage Preparation Program -
