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Psuedomutality - ✔✔Describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and
interferes with intimacy.
Psuedohostility - ✔✔Arguing and bickering that hides "pathological alignments" in families. A volatile
and intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits. Prevents open communication
and quality relationships.
Rubber Fence Boundary - ✔✔Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to
information from outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation. Appear open
and flexible but are closed.
John Bowlby is known for which theory - ✔✔Attachment theory
John Bowlby - ✔✔Attachment theory. Identified the characteristics of a child's attachment to his/her
caregiver and the phases that a child experiences when separated from the caregiver.
What are the different attachment styles - ✔✔Secure attachment, insecure attachment
(anxious/avoidant), insecure attachment (ambivalent/resistant), and disorganized/disoriented
attachment.
Theodore Lidz - ✔✔Professor from Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couples influence on
the development of schizophrenia in a child.
Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage, individuals,
and the children.
Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
, "Family Process" - ✔✔Founded by Don Jackson & Nathan Ackerman edited by Jay Haley.
Mental Research Institute (MRI) - ✔✔MRI; Mental Research Institute. A center for the study of families
in Palo Alto, CA whose researchers and practioners-Bateson, Jackson, Satir, Weakland, Fry, and Haley
studied schizophrenia and family interactions, communication, and cybernetic theory. They emphasized
process and interactional sequences rather than structure, and distinguished between first-order and
second-order change. They developed a version of Brief Family Therapy based on the notion that the
"problem" or tx focus, stems from the failed solution previously attmpted by the family.
Norbert Wiener - ✔✔Coined the term & Theory "cybernetics"
General Systems Theory - ✔✔Living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/ complex
feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of affairs (I.e., homeostasis) leads to Bowlby's
system of behavior control.
Double bind theory - ✔✔Distinct pattern of communication in which one individual receives
contradictory commands from which there is no escape (lose, lose situation).
6 characteristics of a double bind - ✔✔1. Communication involves 2 or more people who are involved in
an important emotional relationship.
2. The pattern of communication and the relationship is a repeated experience.
3. The communication involves a primary negative injunction — or a command not to do (some act) or
not to NOT do (some act) either of which come with a threat of punishment.
4. A second abstract injunction is given that contradicts the primary injunction but at a more abstract
level and is usually nonverbal. This also occurs under the threat of punishment.
5. A third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents escape, effectively binding the
recipient to the environment in which these patterns exist.
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