Satir Family Therapy Quiz – Flashcards

1) Focus on the seed model which emphasizes that people have the internal tools to promote growth and change within their own lives and human beings are inherently good 2) The person and the world is impacted and being impacted by one another; change is an ongoing process 3) Therapy process occurs between the emotional connection and communication between the therapist and client; each person is responsible for their part in the interaction

1) Longitudinal influences: The cumulative learning experineces that a child has acquired through the primary triad (Mother, father, child), if there has been problematic communication (intent, what is heard and what emotional reactions occur) and differential treatment of siblings within their FOO they may develop low self esteem and levels of cooperation, goal of therapy is to restore self esteem and levels of cooperation 2) Interplay of Mind and Body: Congruence of the physical, intellectual (thinking), emotional (feelings), sensual (perceptions of the world), interactional (how one communicates with self and others), nutritional (what one eats), contextual (what one experiences in environment and soul 3) Learning and Change: Focus on a new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving rather than eradicating old ways, Supporting the person when they take risks and Therapist uses questions and behavioral exercises that allow the person to rediscover their inner knowledge

1) Each person has the innate abilities to grow and change 2) Each person and situation simultaneously impact each other 3) Therapy occurs with the interaction between the therapist and client where each person is responsible for their own growth

1) People are geared towards growth and change and have the resources to do so 2) People carry the resources and insight needed to flourish 3) Everyone is impacted and impacts one another 4) Person and the beliefs of the therapist are the source of creating change Steps: Establish contact and make working contract (everyone must want to change to do this, therapist must be constantly assessing family and individual functioning and sets up interventions to help address problematic communitcation and raise self worth through experiential activities), therapist intervenes by creating chaos and disturbing status quo (coach person through uncomfortability with being true self by creating a cooperative and present-focused environment so that they can become in touch with areas of self that they want to focus on) , and third is integrating changes (hopeful outlook towards making changes in individual functioning and being attentive to when new issues emerge to start cycle over again; be attentive to whether interventions are working) Ultimately: Promote health rather than focus on symptoms and promote energy towards helpful emotional and communication methods rather than pathological behaviors

1) How people cope with problems is the actual problem not the problem itself; Families are trying to maintain homeostasis with rigid rules, boundaries and expectations 2) What causes it: IP (can shift overtime), low self worth of ind. (not able to touch into 8 aspects of self and engages in problematic communication), restrictive rules that form beliefs on how to survive and ought to communicate; focus on blame and shame;, and unrealistic expectations (kids parenting parents and/or telling kids that they always need to be grateful) 3) Dysfunctional family is present when members have low self esteem and defensive behaviors

1) Be Warm and congruent with others 2) Make contact with all 8 areas of mandala so that they can connect and guide people to discover theirs 3) Honor unique client experiences by being empathetic 4) Convey Hope that family can reorganize self 5) Establish credibility by modelling self worth and congruence

Individual functioning: Acknowledge when they are using survivor stance with communication, analyze their 6 levels of experience (behavior, coping feeling, feelings about feelings, perceptions expectations, yearnings and self), analyze self worth to see areas of shame and ways to promote self compassion and connect with mandala Family Functioning: Role of symptom in family, analyze family dynamics (power struggles with extended family and nuclear family, parental conflict, lack of validation (can show emotions) and lack of intimacy (showing true self)), analyze family roles to see if they are flexible and if love is equally distributed to them, family life cycle events (predictable and unpredictable events) and survival triad (See how parents interacted with child to teach them how to survive)

1) Status Quo- Family comes in maintaining homeostasis 2) Introduction of foriegn element throws the system off balance such as attending therapy 3) Chaos: Change that is created by experential activity that leads positive feedback loop 4) New Options: When the family system integrates relearned insight into functioning 5) Practice: Family develops new healthier behavioral patterns; ask if sumptoms are improving and if person/family feels more self actualized 6) Integration: New homeostasis that doesn't include symptom

1) Facilitate Emotional expression by expressing your own difficult emotions, validating clients experiences and helping client access 6 levels of experience 2) Shifting from rigid rules to guidelines that can be modified overtime based on the context surrounding them 3) Communication Enhancement: coaching clients to have congruent conversations rather than take survival stances; focus on the here and now 4) Family Sculpt: putting family members in physical positions that represent how the sculptor sees each person in their role; use touch to conncet and see how relationships are subjective to each person 5) Parts Party: Increase individuals self worth by helping clients accept holistic self by assigning parts to each persons emotions and having them interact 6) Family stress ballet: Shift positions rapidly as they might in real life 7) Simulated Family: Have people portray other family members roles to see how they engage with one another 8) Ropes as Therapeutic tool: See how relationships are interconnected and moving them around constantly can create tangles 9) Anatomy of relationship: Have couple become aware of expectations and rules within marriage that are unconscious 10) Family Reconstruction: Reveal person's old learnings that they got from parent, see how parent is human and learned problematic behaviors from parents and coach person to fulfill full personhood

Placating: Disregard own feelings for others (pay attention to other and context) Blamers: Blame others for problems (pay attention to self and context) Super Reasonable: Discount self and others just to pay attention to context Irrelevant: Disregard self, others and context for purposeless behavior Congruent: Inside and outside match when responding to context; consider self, others and context

Behavior Coping: How things are handled Feelings Feelings about feelings: decisions about how to feel Perception: beliefs, assumptions and subjective reality Expectations of self, others and context Yearnings: Want to be loved, connected, cared for etc. Self: Mandala

1) Focus on emotional experiences with individual and family 2) Believe in individual growth and willing to go through process of having them recognize this 3) Use spontaneity and present situations to challenge person to address their unresolved feelings about themselves