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Unit V (Chpt 35)
Family Interventions
Question | Answer |
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Refer to a blending together of the roles, thoughts, and feelings of the individual family members so that clear distinctions fail to emerge. | Diffuse or Enmeshed Boundaries |
In Families w/ diffuse boundaries individuals expect other members of the family to know what they are ______. | Thinking |
Those which the rules and roles are consistently adhered to no matter what. | Rigid or Disengaged boundaries |
Cardinal rule for effective and functional communication in families? | Clear & Direct |
Family members pretend to be inadequate but well meaning to keep peace in the family at any price. | Placating |
Assumes changing any single element in the family system will bring about change in the entire system (Double-Blind messages). | Strategic Model of Family Therapy |
Explains family problems from the perspective of dysfunctional boundary and role structure.(Scapegoating, Dysfunctional Triangles, Clarifies boundaries) | Structural Model of Family Therapy |
A form of displacement in which a family member (usually ↓powerful) is blamed for another s or another family members distress. | Scapegoating |
A situation in which a positive comment (often verbal) is followed by a negative command (often non-verbal), which leaves the recipient confused, trapped, and immobilized because there is no appropriate way to act. | Double-Blind |
The ability to develop a strong identity sense of self while at the same time maintaining an emotional connectedness with ones family of origin. | Differentiation |
The individual in the family whom everyone regard as “the problem”. | Identified Patient |
One indication that a nurse is being triangled is that his or her level of _____ is greater than the situation warrants. | Anxiety |
A format for efficiently providing a clinical summary of information & relationships across at least 3 generations of a family. | Genogram |
The primary goal of psychoeducational family therapy? | Sharing of Mental Health Information |
The primary characteristics essential to healthy family functioning are _______ & _______. | Flexibility; clear boundaries. |