Foundations of Family Therapy – Flashcards
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Norbert Weiner
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developed cybernetics
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Ludwig Von Bertalanffy (1940)
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combined systems thinking and biology into a universal theory of living systems
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Salvador Minuchin (1960)
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school for boys in New York, creator of structural family therapy, director of Philadelphia Child Guidance Center,
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Paul Popenoe (1888-1979)
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Eugenics (study of sterilization), fit families would reproduce unfit families would be sterilized, first to introduce idea of marriage counseling in California
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Emily Mudd
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Pennsylvania's first birth control clinic, interactions with abused women led to family counseling, first female professor at Penn medical school, worked with Kinsey and Masters and Johnson
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Gregory Bateson (1940)
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human communication theory, was an anthropologist, proposed the double bind theory, part of Palo Alto group
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John Bowlby (1940)
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attachment theory, started group therapy by inviting a family into a case with a boy that was failing
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Nathan Ackerman
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child psychiatrist, focused on psychodynamic conflict, saw both child and parents together, cofounded the journal Family Process
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Earnest Groves
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first marriage prep college course, First president of AAMC, Groves conference of Conservation of Marriage,
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Carl Whitaker
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therapy of the absurd, promoted co-therapy
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Murray Bowen
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considered one of the initial pioneers of family therapy, concepts of differentiation of self and emotional reactivity, Bowen institute
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Lyman Wynne
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national institute of mental health, focused on how pathological thinking is transmitted to families, pseudomutuality, psuedohostility, and rubber fences
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John Bell
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psychologist, considered the father of family therapy,
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Theodore Lidz
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studied schizophrenic families and rejected idea of maternal rejection being major cause, coined role reciprocity, marital schism, and marital skew
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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
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introduced contextual family therapy, focused on fairness, trust, loyalty, balancing the ledger of entitlement and indebtedness
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James Framo
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object relations theory, worked with Nagy on contextual family therapy
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Henry Stack Sullivan
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psychiatrist who was a proponent of the Freudian tradition, his work became the basis of interpersonal psychoanalysis
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Don Jackson
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focused on relationships being the key to understanding individual's mental illness, Interactional Theory and Conjoint Family Therapy
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Betty Cater
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pushed the family life cycle as important, strong voice for women's issues within the family system
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Jay Haley
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strategic family therapy, focused on clients doing something about the presenting problem more than discussing why the problem existed
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Milton Erickson
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Mental Research Institute (MRI) confusion technique and the use of metaphors
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Christian Midelfort
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considered a founding figure with little acclaim, treated psychotics in family therapy in 1957
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Palo Alto Group
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Bateson, Jackson, Haley, Weakland--communication theory, conflict, double bind, homeostasis, became MRI
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Virginia Satir
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woman considered a pioneer of family therapy, background was social work,
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In Soo Berg and Steve deShazer
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founders of solution-focused therapy
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Michael White
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founder of Narrative therapy approach
