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WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
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What is equifinality__., cybernetic principle where similar outcome may
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result from many different initial events. Ex: depression caused from
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biochemical imbalances or traumatic life experiences.
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Complainant (SFT) client brings problem but unwilling to focus on
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solution. Therapist gives assignment, asking when exceptions to problem
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occur.
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Narrative therapy Goals deconstruct problem saturated stories and
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dominant cultural discourses and to co-auther new, more helpful stories.
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What is Equipotentiality
__., When things with a common origin can go
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in very different directions of development i.e the same clinical
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intervention yielding very different outcomes. __., __., __., __.,
What is a feedback loop?
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reintroduced into the system in a looping chain of events that influence
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one another __.,
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models?
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How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational
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model?
., Approximately 2 years
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,(Terms) insight/working through__., __., __.,__., __., Transgenerational models __.,
multigenerational transmission process process by which roles, __., __., __.,__., __., __., __., __., __.
patterns, emotional reactivity, and family structure are passed from one
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generation to another. Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry one
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another, and over several generations produce offspring who are increasing
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ly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe mental disorders
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including schizophrenia
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Family projection process __., lack of differentiation in parents often __., __.,__., __., __., __., __., __., __., __.
results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature, and fused
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with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-
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unit is avoided, but child's emotional growth is sacrificed. Symptoms and
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lack of differentiation is transmitted from parents to children.
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nuclear family Emotional System__., Fused family that is unstable and
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unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction that
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are transmitted across generations.
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triangles smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes
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process by which two people recruit third person into system to mediate
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the level of conflict or tension between them.
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pseudo-
self person who is not differentiated may be fused with another
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person. as a result they do not reason with their values but instead
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borrows values of person with whom they are fused and commonly make
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s emotionally reactive choices.
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, solid-self a person who is well differentiated and is able to function
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based upon a personally defined set of values, beliefs, convictions, and
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life principles
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Differentiation of self separation of intellectual and emotional functio
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ning, which results in being less reactive to family system dynamics and o
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ther members emotional states
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According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3 places.
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.. The marital relationship
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The health of one partner (physical or mental)
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In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
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Bowenian Interventions __., __.,__., __., Differentiation of self scale __., __., __.,
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment __.,
Person-to-person relationships __.,
Coaching
I Position
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Extension of Bowen's model Philip Guerin: elaborated on genogram a
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nd developed the displacement story intervention.
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Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
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