Theories in 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 personalit...

Marriage and Family Therapy T 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 bet...

Marriage and Family Therapy, Chapter

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Marriage and Family T Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from: - family problems Family therapy is particularly effective with: - adult obesity AND couple distress Before 1940, mental health treatment focused on: - individuals The systems theory developed by Ludwig Von Bertanlanffy had less reliance on ____ and more emphasis on ____. - linear causality: circular causality The only woman pioneer in the early days of family therap...

Marriage and Family TherapyMarriage and Family THow does structural therapy address the problems in a family? - By charting the relationship between family members and between subsets of family. What does the therapy do? - Tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family? What does structural therapy focus on? - family organization and boundaries and the ways in which these structures govern interactional patterns. Structural therapist attempt to - ...

acceptance - the therapist's personal and professional comfortableness with a family. acculturation - the modification of a culture as a result of coming into contact with another culture. In many instances, minority cultures incorporate many traditions and mores of majority cultures in attempts to "fit in." acculturation gap - different rates of acculturation between immigrant parents and U.S.-raised children that complicates the normal generation gap. The resul...