A System - ✔✔A unit bounded by a set of interrelated elements and which exhibits coherent behaviors
Activating Constructive Anxiety - ✔✔Therapist's effort to reframe symptoms as efforts toward building
competence by focusing on the positive attributes of anxiety as a means toward self-growth (Symbolic
Experiential)
Affective Confrontation (Experiential) - ✔✔The therapists intentional confrontation with the family
where he or she will directly and openly share his or her subjective emotional experience of working
with the family
Affective Intensity (Structural) - ✔✔Increasing the emotional intensity of the system to encourage
structural change
Aligning with the Parental Generation - ✔✔A technique directed at strengthening the parental hierarchy
and reinforcing that parents are in charge of the children. The therapist breaks beutrality and
intentionally aligns with the parental subsystem.
Amplifying or Positive Feedback Loops - ✔✔These increase change in a family's homeostasis and
attempt to change these systems from current steady state to a new steady state or balance.
Another name for homeostasis in Cybernetics - ✔✔Morphogenesis
Analogic Communication - ✔✔Has little structure, but is rich in contect such as a child's kinetic family
drawing
Analogic Message - ✔✔A metaphorical or symbolic message (process)
Attachement - ✔✔The individual's basic need for trust and security, significantly influenced and
developed throughout infancy and ealy childhood per the child's relation to his or her primary caregiver
,Influences relationship styles throughout adulthood according to EFT - ✔✔Attachement
Attenuating or Negative Feedback Loops - ✔✔These reduce change in an existing homoeostasis
Battle for Initiative (Symbolic Experiential) - ✔✔second battle in which the family takes back from the
therapist its authority to make choices about what is discussed and about decisions that affect their lives
Battle for Structure - ✔✔family capitulates to therapist's way of conducting the therapy particularly
during the initial stages, such as who attends, what time sessions are, and how frequently they occur.
Battle for Structure - ✔✔In Symbolic-Experiential Therapy, if the family is not willing to meet these
expectations set by the therapist, they are not prepared to invest in the growth process and change
would be unlikely.
Undifferentiated family ego mass - ✔✔Bowen's early term for emotional "stuck-togetherness" or fusion
in the family
Unique Outcomes - ✔✔Questions aimed at exploring times when the problem did not have control over
the individual or family's life. Narrative Family Therapy
Vehicles of change - ✔✔Instead of relying on predetermined techniques, Satir endorsed a model of
using _______________________ with clients that were more adaptable.
Visitor - ✔✔One of the three types of clients in Solution-Focused Therapy. Visitors are agreeable to
attend therapy, but are not willing to put forth effort to change.
Working Through - ✔✔After insight is achieved, this process entails translating insight into more
desirable and constructive ways of being. (Object relations Theory.)
Beginners Mind - ✔✔Therapist's stance in Solution-Focused Therapy. It is important that the therapist
maintains an open mind and is careful not to exert expertise and limit possibilities
, Bilateral Pseudo-Therapy - ✔✔From symbolic-experiential therapy, the tendency in some families for
family members to be therapists to one another. Therapists demand that the therapy be turned over to
them, asserting that the family has failed in its efforts at self-therapy (See Battle for Structure & Battle
for Initiative).
Bilateral Transference - ✔✔A therapist's intentional maneuver to adapt to the language, accent, rhythm,
or posture of the family. (Symbolic Experiential)
Blamers - ✔✔One of Satir's four dysfunctional communication styles. Often disagree with others and
hold others responsible for things not going their way.
How Blamers feel according to Satir - ✔✔Insecure and powerless, and feel that they must go to extreme
measures - verbal and or physical aggression - for anyone to really listen to them.
Body, Mind, and Feelings - ✔✔Satir's believe that the mind, body, and feelings interact and influence
communication processes at both the verbal and nonverbal level.
Bonding - ✔✔Attachment theory's term for the process in which individuals form a connection in
relationship that satisfies the primary need
Boundary Interface - ✔✔The regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family and
the suprasystem.
Centripetal - ✔✔a measure on the Timberlawn Model suggesting that family members look to get their
needs met within the family system
Challenging Family Assumptions - ✔✔Offers the family alternative perspectives and views on how they
interact with one another.
Challenging the Symptom - ✔✔Offers the family alternative ways of perceiving the role of the symptom
in relation to the family's structure.
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