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EPPP Clinical 7
Family therapies
Question | Answer |
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communication/interaction family therapy assumptions | all beh is communication, people are always communicating, even when doing nothing. All comm has a report function and a command function. Problems arise when the report and command functions are contradictory.Comm are either symmetrical or complementary |
communication/interaction family therapy view of maladaptive behavior | accept a circular model of causality that regards a symptom as both a cause and effect of dysfuncitonal comm patterns, which include blaming and criticizing, mindreading & overgeneralizing. |
communication/interaction family therapy goals | to alter the interactional patterns that are maintaining the presenting symptoms. |
communication/interaction family therapy techniques | direct techniques (pointing out to family members problematic interaction patterns as they occur) and paradoxical strategies such as perscribing the symptom and reframing. |
Extended family systems theory concepts | extends general systems theory beyond the nuclear family, and it describes the functioning of the extended family and it's members in terms of several interlocking concepts: Differentiation of self, emotional triangle, family projection process. |
Extended family systems theory view of maladaptive behavior | are the result of a multigenerational transmission process in which progressively lower levels of differentiation are transmitted from one generation to the next. |
Extended family systems theory goal | is to increase the differentiation of all family members. |
Extended family systems theory techniques | therapist presence helps family members reduce the fusion betwwn them and achieve higer levels of differentiation. genogram. |
Structural family therapy concepts | rigid boundaries - "disengaged" permeable boundaries - "enmeshed" 3 chronic boundary problems:detouring stable coalition, and triangulation |
Structural family therapy view of maladaptive behavior | inflexible family structure |
Structural family therapy goal | Restucturing the family. |
Structural family therapy techniques | joining (by tracking), evaluating the family structure, and restructuring. |
Strategic family therapy view of maladaptive behaviour | communication misuse to increase control in relationship |
Strategic family therapy goal | is on alleviating current symptoms by altering a family's transactions and organi\ation, especially its hierarchies and generational boundaries. |
Strategic family therapy assumption | behavior change results in changes in perceptions and emotions. |
Strategic family therapy techniques | paradoxical intervention (to make use of resistance) by restraining, positioning, reframing, prescribing the sx ordeals |
Milan systemic family therapy view of maladaptive behavior | circular patterns of action and reaction in family system. |
Milan systemic family therapy goal | help family members see their choices and to assist them in exercising teir prerogative of choosing. |
Milan systemic family therapy techniques | therapeutic team (observational mirror & conferences) and circular questioning (to clarify discrepancies in perspectives), hypothesizing, neutrality, paradox. |
Behavioral family therapy concepts | based on principles of operant conditioning, social learning theory and social exchange theory. |
Behavioral family therapy view of maladaptive behavior | behavior is learned and maintained by its antecedents and consequences. |
Behavioral family therapy goal | is to alter the environmental factors (antecedents and consequences) that are maintaining the behavior. |
Behavioral family therapy techniques | focus on obsservable behaviors, ongoing assessment of beh to id the appropriate targets of therapy and evaluate its effects, and emphasis on increasing or decreasing target beh through R+. Focus on improving communication and problem solving skills. |
object relations family therapy | |
object relations family therapy | |
object relations family therapy |