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Strategic Goals of Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS -Symptom relief and changes in
structure of family and parent parental hierarchy.
Strategic Presenting Problem as Metaphor - CORRECT ANSWERS -Symptom is
redefined as a metaphor of a larger problem.
Strategic Unbalancing - CORRECT ANSWERS -An interven...
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Strategic Goals of Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS -Symptom relief and changes in
structure of family and parent parental hierarchy.
Strategic Presenting Problem as Metaphor - CORRECT ANSWERS -Symptom is
redefined as a metaphor of a larger problem.
Strategic Unbalancing - CORRECT ANSWERS -An intervention where the therapist
intentionally sides with one family member over the other. Meant to disrupt
homeostasis.
Strategic Pretend to Have Symptom - CORRECT ANSWERS -Paradoxical Intervention
where therapist instructs child to have a symptom and instructs parents to help child
through it.
Strategic Incongruous Hierarchies - CORRECT ANSWERS -Occurs when children
create symptoms in attempt to change their parents.
Strategic Aligning with Parental Generation - CORRECT ANSWERS -Technique
directed at strengthening the parental hierarchy and reinforcing that parents are in
charge of the children. Therapist breaks neutrality and intentionally aligns with parental
subsystem.
Strategic Ordeal Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS -Paradoxical directive that places a
client in a situation where it creates more work for them to maintain problem symptoms
than it would be to change it.
Strategic Main Contributors - CORRECT ANSWERS -Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes
Strategic Directives - CORRECT ANSWERS -Specific, directed behavioral tasks for the
family to engage in during session and then carry out at home between sessions.
Strategic-Humanism How Individuals Resolve Conflict - CORRECT ANSWERS -1.
Dominate and Control (behavior problems)
2. Desire to be loved (anxiety and depression)
3. Love and protect (abuse and neglect)
4. Repent and forgive (sexual/physical abuse)
Strategic-Humanism Themes - CORRECT ANSWERS --All problems stem from conflict
between love and violence.
-Clients are continually presented with range of choices as to what to make of
themselves and the present circumstances.
Cybernetics - CORRECT ANSWERS -Studying organization, pattern, and process
rather than matter, material, and content.
Cybernetics Equipotentiality - CORRECT ANSWERS -Same initial conditions can result
in different end states.
Cybernetics Equifinality - CORRECT ANSWERS -An organism or system can reach the
same end state from multiple sources, conditions, and means.
Cybernetics Amplifying/ Positive Feed Back Loops - CORRECT ANSWERS -
Mechanism by which families respond to changes in homeostasis. Attempts to change
the system from a steady state to a new steady state or behavior.
Cybernetics Feedback Loops - CORRECT ANSWERS -Self-Correcting mechanisms by
which families attempt to adjust deviations and maintain organizational integrity.
Cybernetics Negative Entropy - CORRECT ANSWERS -A state that emerges when a
system is balance between openness and closedness.
Cybernetics Entropy - CORRECT ANSWERS -Refer's to a system's tendency to break
down over time which threatens the survival of the system.
Cybernetics Homeostasis - CORRECT ANSWERS -Tendency of a system to resist
change and maintain dynamic equilibrium.
Cybernetics Morphogenesis - CORRECT ANSWERS -A system's tendency towards
growth, creativity, change, and innovation.
Cybernetics Morphostasis - CORRECT ANSWERS -A system's tendency towards
stability.
Cybernetics Ripple Effect - CORRECT ANSWERS -Change that occurs at one level of
a system will result in changes across other levels of the system.
Cybernetics Recursiveness - CORRECT ANSWERS -Reciprocal or circular causality.
Speaks to mutual interaction between people, events, and their ecosystems.
, Cybernetics Process versus Content - CORRECT ANSWERS -Process is how it is said
and content is what is being said.
Cybernetics Process versus Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS -An infrequent behavior
is a process.
A frequent behavior is a structure.
Cybernetics Structures - CORRECT ANSWERS -Aspects of a system that are relatively
static and enduring. They can be changed.
Cybernetics System - CORRECT ANSWERS -A unit bonded by a set of interrelated
elements which exhibits coherent behaviors.
Cybernetics Boundaries - CORRECT ANSWERS -Contains the properties of:
-Permeability
-Selectivity
-Variability
Open Systems vs. Closed Systems.
Cybernetics Family Models/Maps - CORRECT ANSWERS -Individuals and systems will
consciously or unconsciously use models or maps to manage boundaries and make
sense of individual and shared realities.
Cybernetics Circular Causality - CORRECT ANSWERS -There is no linear causality.
Things mutually affect others.
MRI Primary Contributors - CORRECT ANSWERS -Bateson, Jackson, Satir, Haley,
Weakland, Watzlawick
MRI Therapy Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS -1. Intro to treatment setup. 2. Inquiry
and definition of problem. 3. Estimation of the solution (pos. feedback) maintaining. 4.
Setting goals for treatment. 5. Selecting and making behavioral or strategic
interventions.
6. Termination
MRI Out-of-Session Directive - CORRECT ANSWERS -Instructing the clients to engage
in behavioral change outside of the session as opposed to in session.
MRI Prescribing the Symptom - CORRECT ANSWERS -Paradoxical intervention where
one instructs the client to intentionally engage in the behavior they wish to change.
Client may rebel and experience desired change or comply and realize they have
control.
MRI Restraining the Progress of Change - CORRECT ANSWERS -Paradoxical
intervention where clients come into session and report that they are experiencing
change so therapist encourages them to slow down and be cautious about changing too
fast.
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