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MFT Exam Study Comprehensive Guide – CompleteRogerian idea of the pieces of a fully-functioning individual - ✔️
"Openness to experience
- Existential Living
- Organismic trusting
-Experiential Freedom
- Creativity"
Who published "genograms" - ✔️ Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson
Steve de Shazer & Insoo Berg - ✔️ Solution-focused brief therapy
Bill O'Hanlon - ✔️ Solution-Oriented or Possibility Therapy
Michael White & David Epston - ✔️ Narrative therapy
Postmoderism - ✔️ "Views knowledge as relative and context dependent
Questions the assumption of objectivity"
Constructionist - ✔️ "A relativistic point of view that emphasizes the
subjective construction of reality
Implies what we see in families may be based as much on our own
preconceptions as what's actually going on"
Tom Anderson - ✔️ Created the "Reflecting Team" in which an observing
team share their reactions with the family at the end of the session
Two categories in the Family Cycle of Life that encompass and identify the
problems that arise - ✔️ "Vertical Stressors - those transmitted from one
generation to another (attitudes, secrets, taboos, expectations, failures)
Horizontal Stressors - predictable events that occur as families move from
one life cycle stage to another (birth, parenting adolescents, infertility,
infidelity, career changes)"
Albert Bandura - ✔️ Believed direct reinforcement could not account for
all types of learning; added a social element - observational learning or
modeling
,Evan Imber-Black - ✔️ Wrote about the impact of agencies and larger
social systems
David Olson - ✔️ "Developed the Circumplex Model -
Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES)
Contains 3 concepts - cohesion, flexibility, communication"
Who started the child guidance movement - ✔️ Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler - ✔️ "Recognized need to consider social context in order to
understand individuals
- believed in need to focus on people's efforts to compensate for their self-
perceived inferiority
- try to understand individual's unique beliefs and strategies (life style)
created in childhood
Goals: overcome insecurity, develop feelings of connectedness, socially
beneficial behaviors
Socratic dialogue - challence to correct mistaken beliefs
Theoritical model of MRI - ✔️ Cybernetics - symptoms function to keep
the family in equilibrium (maintain homeostasis)
Where was cybernetics learned - ✔️ Macy conferences (noticed by
Bateson)
Gregory Bateson's theoretical focus - ✔️ "Cybernetics, self-correcting
systems
Saw communication as the means through which systems maintain
themselves - through positive and negative feedback loops
paradoxical communication"
Carl Whitaker's approach - ✔️ "Symbolic-Experiential Family therapy
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy's approach - ✔️ "Contextual therapy
MRI Group - ✔️ "Strategic therapy to ""interrupt the problem-
maintaining interactions""
,problems maintained by feedback loops, paradoxical injunctions,
prescribing the symptom, reframing
Milan Group - ✔️ "Mara Selvini Palazzoli
strategic, interested in cybernetics
rituals - violated family rules
positive connotations
invariant prescription
Feminist therapy - ✔️ "Not neutral - assert that since men still hold most
of the power in relationships, it is incumbent upon the therapist to offset
the imbalance
Gender is a fundamental, irreducible category of experience"
Social Constructionist (postmodern) therapies - ✔️ narrative, solution-
focused, collaborative language systems
Narrative Therapy - ✔️ "Michael White & David Epston
Solution-Focused therapy - ✔️ "Steve de Shazer & Insoo Berg
de-emphasizes the problem or cause
amplify a behavior that works
strongly assert that reality is created through language
use client's meaning system rather than imposing a theory-driven
definition of reality
Collaborative Language Systems - ✔️ "Harlene Anderson & Harry
Goolishian
Humans create meaning through language and knowledge is constructed
through social discourse (also problems and solutions)
Don't diagnose or give directives; convey attitude of ""not knowing"" and
work to co-create stories in which the problem-solver discovers new
possibilities and the problem ""dissolves"""
First step in MRI brief therapy - ✔️ Identify the feedback loops that
maintain the problem - then determine which behaviors are maintaining
the problem
, Who inspired the Strategic model - ✔️ Gregory Bateson & Milton
Erickson
Roots of transgenerational models (influence of past generations) - ✔️
Theoretical roots in psychoanalytic and object relations theories
(intrapsychic conflict) and family system
Focus and assumptions of transgenerational models - ✔️ "Consider how
an individual's relationships and interactions in his family of origin
unconsciously continue to influence current relationships and functioning
Believe symptoms develop when transgenerational phenomena remain
unconscious
Treatment seeks to help individuals understand the underlying dynamics -
make unconscious conscious
Insights lead to new and more productive ways of behaving and interacting
Bowen's six key concepts - ✔️ "differentiation of self, triangles, nuclear
family emotional process, family projection process, multigenerational
transmission process, sibling position
Individuals' competing needs (according to Bowen) - ✔️ To belong to the
group and to be an individual separate from mit
Characteristics of highly differentiated people - ✔️ "Can balance thinking
and feeling, capable of strong emotion, spontaneity, restraint and
objectivity, don't risk self in relationships
Characteristics of people with low differentiation - ✔️ "Cannot think
clearly for themselves, emotionally reactive, respond in patterned
behaviors learned from FOO, parrot others' views instead of developing
own, become fused with others
Major goal of humanistic existential therapy - ✔️ "Increase awareness of
how one chooses to define life
Assume responsibility and ownership of one's life
Brief therapy criteria for termination - ✔️ a measure of success and
readiness is the client's ability to see change, no matter how small
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