Final Family Systems – Flashcards

1. Therapy is brief, process-focused, and solution oriented 2. Change results when the family follows the therapist's directions and change transactions 3. The focus is on solving problems in the present 4. The therapist designs strategies for change

1. First person of modern era to do family therapy 2. First to notice that development of children was heavily influenced by birth order 3. Key concepts Adlerian Family Therapy - atmosphere, family constellation, and mistaken goals 4. Strives to establish and support parents as effective leaders of the family

therapist's view of clients as experts on their own life

1. Refined Adler's concepts into a typology of mistaken goals and an organized approach to family therapy 4 goals of children's misbehavior 1. attention getting 2. power struggle 3. revenge 4. assumed disability

1. Concept of triangulation - in working with this, maintain stance of neutrality 2. Differentiation of self 3. Contends one's current family problems will not significantly change until relationship patterns in one's family of origin are understood and directly challenged 4. Families can best be understood when analyzed from at least a 3 generational perspective 5. Emotional fusion to one's family must be addressed if one hopes to achieve a mature and unique personality

1. Reframing - casts new light on a problem and provides a different interpretation for a problematic situation

1. Individuals are best understood through the context of their role in the family Assumptions of problematic behavior: 1. serve a function or purpose for the family 2. be a function of the family's inability to function productively 3. be a symptom of dysfunctional patterns handed down across generations

teacher model coach consultant

1. asking about attempted solutions to a problem 2. Directives 3. Reframing 4. Paradoxical Interventions

tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family

1. Joining the family in a position of leadership 2. mapping the underlying structure of a family 3. Intervening in ways designed to transform an ineffective structure of a family 4. Being a stage director

1. Family rules 2. Functional vs dysfunctional communication patterns 3. Family roles and triads 4. Defensive stances in coping with stress Goals 1. promoting growth 2. self-esteem 3. connection 4. Helping family members achieve congruent communication and interaction

reduce anxiety and emotional tension in relationships

1. Joining 2. Accommodating 3. Unbalancing 4. Tracking 5. Boundary Making

spontaneity, creativity and play as factors in family therapy

1. Central to Adlerian therapy

...addresses family goals

...Assessing family's typical day and the routines that support their daily lives

1. Modifying the family's transactional rules 2. Developing more appropriate boundaries 3. Creating an effective hierarchical structure 4. Reducing symptoms of dysfunction

Includes biological, individual, relational, familial and societal levels

Concerned with questions like "How does the family's level of economics, education, ethnicity, religion, race, regional background, gender and age affect the family's processes?"

1. problem descriptions and goal identification 2. typical day 3. child interview 4. goal disclosure and techniques

A particular family member's needs may be overshadowed by the needs of the system