Experiential Models of Family Therapy – Flashcards
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Does experiential deal with the past or present?
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present
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What else does experiential use?
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role plays and acting
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How to changes occur with experiential?
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growth experience
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What is some vocab used with experiential?
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experience, growth, existence, spontaneity, action, here and now, moment
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Experiential emphasizes...
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choice, free will, self determination, self fulfillment
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What leads to choice?
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self awareness
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What is more important that changing family structures or alleviating symptoms?
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enhancing quality of life
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How does the family grow?
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by expressing feelings
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How does the therapist behave?
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like a real person
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Who came up with symbolic-experiential family therapy?
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Carl Whitaker
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Who developed the concept of co therapy?
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Carl Whitaker
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In symbolic-experiential family therapy, what produces change?
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experience
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What type of therapy forces patients to look at themselves and one another?
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symbolic-experiential family therapy
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What type of therapy has the family look at "we" instead of "I"?
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symbolic-experiential family therapy
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What are the four stages of symbolic-experiential family therapy?
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1. pretreatment/engagement 2. middle phase 3. late phase 4. separation phase
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In symbolic-experiential family therapy, what is the pretreatment/engagement phase?
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entire family participates and therapist establishes they are in charge during the sessions but the family must make its own choices outside
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In symbolic-experiential family therapy, what is the middle phase?
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symptoms are seen and relabeled, family is incited to change, and therapist is careful not to get pulled in
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In symbolic-experiential family therapy, what is the late phase?
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increase in flexibility in family and less therapist intervention
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Who created gestalt family therapy?
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Walter Kemplar
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Who did Kemplar adapt the gestalt family therapy from?
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Frederick Perls
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In gestalt family therapy, what is the role of the therapist?
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to become a catalyst in negotiations
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What are two strategies used for gestalt family therapy?
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role playing and video recordings
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What does gestalt family therapy help clients do?
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expand their awareness take responsibility for actions gain a sense of autonomy and authenticity
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What are the four demands that gestalt family therapy must meet?
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1. a clear knowledge of who I am at any given moment 2. a sensitive cognition or appraisal of the people I am with and the context of our encounter 3. the development and utilization of my manipulating skills to extract as effectively as I am capable, what I need from the encounter 4. the capability of finishing an encounter
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What is Kemplar interested in?
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what each person wants in specific terms
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How must participants talk to one another?
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face to face, group-like fashion
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Who created the human validation process model?
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Virginia Satir
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What does the human validation process model emphasize?
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growth enhancing techniques such as sensory awareness, dance, message, and group encounter techniques
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How does the human validation process model look at a family?
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as a balanced system
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What does the way the family communicates reflect, according to the human validation process model?
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the self worth of the members
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What kind of communication does the human validation process model emphasize?
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clear and congruent
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Why is clear and congruent communication emphasized in the human validation process model?
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to maintain a balanced and nurturing family system
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What is essential for the human validation process model?
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building of self esteem
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What is the role of the therapist in the human validation process model?
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personal involvement models honesty and spontaneous feelings often through self disclosure assists families to develop a process for expressing feelings assists families in changing embedded rules that discourage or prohibit dealing with one another at a feeling level
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According to the human validation process model, what does a symptom in an individual mean?
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a block in growth
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What are the eight aspects of self, according to the human validation process model?
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physical intellectual emotional sensual interactional contextual nutritional spiritual
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What are the four dysfunctional communication stances adopted under stress, according to the human validation process model?
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placater blamer super-reasonable irrelevant
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What therapy techniques are used with the human validation process model?
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threat and reward model, seed model, family life fact chronology, family reconstruction
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Who came up with emotion focused therapy?
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Susan Johnson and Leslie Greenberg
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Who is emotion focused therapy geared toward?
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couples
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What is the leading experiential model today?
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emotion focused therapy
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What principles is emotion focused therapy based on?
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client centered Gestalt therapy
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What terms does emotion focused therapy view couples on?
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intrapsychic interactional
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What does emotion focused therapy help couples to gain access to?
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what is emotionally significant to the other
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What does emotion focused therapy examine?
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what guides their experiences and actions
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What does emotion focused therapy help couples to change?
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negative interactive patterns
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What does emotion focused therapy help couples to build?
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secure emotional bonds
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How many steps are there to emotion focused therapy?
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9
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What is the therapist role in emotion focused therapy?
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focuses on the process between two people rather than each person emphasizes the rigid patterns that block emotional engagement more of a coach identify repetitive negative interactions help clients redefine their problems are emotional blocks
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What is it called in emotion focused therapy when the right things happen?
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change process
