Family treatment approaches – Flashcards

Lludwig von Bertalffy's model. Views family as a complex, organized , interactive and holistic organism. The entire family is viewed as the patient and focus of tx is on the relationship among family members

The functioning of each family member is best understood by looking at the family unit as a whole. Family values and rules have a tendency to shape individual member behaviors.Boundaries regulate the flow of information into and out of the family. Family is conceptualized as an emotional system or unit in which family members are emotionally interdependent and function in reciprocal relatiosnhips with one another.

Morphogenesis, morphostasis, homeostasis, equifinality and circular casualty

all family systems are in a constant state of change as they adapt to changing family needs

all family systems seek stability in the midst of these changes

as individual family members change, the family seeks to restore and maintain a steady state of equilibrium and balance

family systems can achieve the same goals or outcomes through different routes

emotional problems can best be understood contextually as part of ongoing feedback loops that maintain a problem

Best known framework of family systems therapy. It consists of eight interconnected concepts: triangles, differentiation of self, nuclear family systems, family projection process, multigenererational transmission process, emotional cut off, sibling position, societal emotional process

therory developed by Salvador Minunchin which emphasizes family structure, subsystems, boundaries.

developed by Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes. It is based on the premise that symtpoms and problem behaviors serve a function in the family system. Therapist works with the family to uncover interactions that maintain a symptom and change them by creating therapeutic double binds.

Clinical strategy provides conflicting messages or directives, so that the message the patient chooses to respond to negates the contradictory message or directives, so that the messsage the pateint chooses to respond to negates the contradic tory message.

double bind: directives or injuctive paradox. Reframing a deviant behavior as bieng protective for the family or ask a famiy member in denia to pretend to be angry

evidence-based form of family-oriented, home-based therapeutic services for adolescents age 12-17 who are involved with juvenile justice system. Work with family and incorporate a network of interconnected extra-familial community systems.

genogram, ecomaps,

displays family history over three generations in straightforward schematic diagram. Includes ages, dates of marriage, divorce and death, significant illnesses and mental disorders ofr chemical dependencies, immigration and geographic moves; occupations,; and conflictual or close relatiosnhsips between family members. Males are represented by squares and females by circles.

represent important relationships occurring btween different family members and the larger community bsed systems such as work, school, churches or healthcare systems.

ineffective therapeutic regime management; ineffective family coping, ineffective parenting, knowledge deficit, caregiver role strain, ineffective denial, complicated grieving.

offering informaton, commending family and individual strengths, validating and normalizing emotional responses, encouraging the telling of illness narratives, encouraging respite, devising rituals.