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ABC-X Family Crisis Model - correct answer...✔✔Rueben Hill's model used to explain
whether or not a stressful event would result in crisis in some families but not in other's.
A=stressor
B=family's crisis- meeting resources
C=family's definition of the stressor
X=the crisis
Accomodation - correct answer...✔✔Describes a variety of engagement techniques
such as joining, used principally by Structural Family Therapists in which the therapist
adapts themselves to the family's style of interacting.
Acculturation - correct answer...✔✔The process by which immigrant group members
adjust to the culture of their new country.
Adaptability - correct answer...✔✔Term from Olson's Circumflex Model, which is a
measure of the families ability to respond and adapt to changes in their lives. Also
called "flexibility"-families are rated at 4 levels:
1. Rigid
2. Structured
3. Flexible
4. Chaotic
Alliance - correct answer...✔✔Structural and Strategic Model Definition: a bond or
affiliation between 2 or more family members. Alliances differ from coalitions in that they
are generally within the subsystems and not hidden.
Domestic Violence Model Definition: Refers to the redemptive phase of the abuse cycle,
in which the perpetrator promises to never act violently again and the victim agrees to
participate in that goal and believes them, continuing the cycle of abuse.
Antilibidinal Ego - correct answer...✔✔Objects-Relations Term defined as the part of
the ego that is formed from interactions with the rejecting object.
Antilibidinal System - correct answer...✔✔Object-Relations Term define as a repressed
system within the ego characterized by aggression, rage, and contempt.
"As If" Structure - correct answer...✔✔Symbolic-Experiential Term defined as family
members are encouraged to freely experiment "as if" they were in the role of the other,
so long as they understand that the role play is symbolic. The process allows family
members to alternately experiment and then return to their secure roles.
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,Autopoetic (Autopoeisis) System - correct answer...✔✔Defined as a system that is self
organizing and self maintaining, such as biological and human systems. Can be
described by second order cybernetics. Term originated from Postmodern Chilean
Biologist, Maturana.
Avoider - correct answer...✔✔SATIR EXPERIENTIAL MODEL: This is 1 of the 5
communication styles developed by Satir (Experiential Therapy). The avoider tends to
distract others form potential conflict by acting helpless, weak, and lacking an
understanding.
Battle for Initiative - correct answer...✔✔WHITAKER EXPERIENTIAL MODEL: The
Battle for Initiative follows the Battle for Structure. Defined as the family taking back
authority form the therapist to make choices about what is discussed and about
decisions that affect their life.
Battle for Structure - correct answer...✔✔WHITAKER EXPERIENTIAL MODEL: The
Battle for Structure is when the therapist demands the family capitulate (give in to) to
their way of conducting the therapy, particularly during the initial stage of therapy. It is
followed by the next phase, Battle for Initiative.
Beavers-Timberlawn Model - correct answer...✔✔An assessment tool used to rate the
dimensions of competence and style in a family.
Competence Dimensions are:
1. Adequate
2. Optimal
3. Midrange
4. Borderline
5. Severely Dysfunctional
Stylistic Dimensions are:
1. Centripetal
2. Centrifugal
3. Mixed
Behavioral Exchange Theory - correct answer...✔✔From Behavior Family Therapy.
Defined as a way of describing relationships in terms of costs and benefits. Functional
relationships have plentiful access to rewards and relatively few costs, while distressed
relationships have few rewards relative to the costs.
Behavioral Family Therapy (BFT) - correct answer...✔✔A theory and therapeutic model
developed by PATERSON, REID (and others). Based on principles of learning and
behavior change. All family members are seen as part of the problem, and symptoms
are reformulated into concrete observable behaviors, each of which will be rewarded, or
extinguished.
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,Behavioral Parent Training (Behavioral Family Therapy) - correct answer...✔✔A
program for training parents in the use of contingency management to modify, or
extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce desirable behaviors in children.
Bicultural - correct answer...✔✔People who belong to more then one culture and are
able to alternate between the two, adjusting temporarily to each, depending on the
circumstance.
Bilateral Pseudo Therapy - correct answer...✔✔SYMBOLIC-EXPERIENTIAL: Defined
as the tendency in some families for members to be therapists to one another. The
Therapist demands the therapy be turned over to them, asserting the family has failed in
it's efforts at self-therapy. (Goes along with Battle for Structure and Battle for Initiative)
Bilateral Transference - correct answer...✔✔SYMBOLIC-EXPERIENTIAL: A
therapeutic stance defined as the therapist adopting the language, accent, rhythm, pr
posture of the family.
Biobehavioral - correct answer...✔✔Defined as biological factors that influence
behavior (example, depression that is caused, in part, by faulty neurochemistry.
Bi-Modal Feedback Mechanism - correct answer...✔✔(Ashby) the rule-bound
mechanism by which a system remains unchanged so long as the internal or external
environment is stable, but when the fluctuation exceeds the range of stability the system
must respond in some new way. The system either breaks down or it makes a leap into
new levels of functioning. The change results in a new set of patterns which, like the old
pattern, is also bound by rules, and it, too, remains unchanged, so long as the
environment is stable.
Binuclear Family - correct answer...✔✔Families in which the parents are divorced,
have remarried, and formed two intact nuclear families.
Blamer - correct answer...✔✔SATIR EXPERIENTIAL MODEL: This is 1 of the 5
communication styles developed by Satir (Experiential Therapy). The Blamer judges
and complains, often for the purpose of bullying others into accepting what their
preference is (get their own way).
Boundary - correct answer...✔✔MINUCHIN-STRUCTURAL:Minuchin's structural family
therapy, boundaries are hypothetical dividers between or among subsystems within the
family or between systems. They are defined spatially by the ways family members
align with one another.They are set by the implicit or explicit rules concerning who
participates in which subsystem and in what manner. Boundaries and the subsystems
they define may change over time. In the structural model, boundaries are rigid, clear,
or diffuse.
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, Boundary Interface - correct answer...✔✔The regions between each subsystem of the
family and between the family and the suprasystem. In family systems therapy this
interface is referred to as the familial boundary.
Boundary Making - correct answer...✔✔A structural therapy technique in which the
therapist establishes a functional semi-permeable (clear) boundary where either a rigid
or diffuse boundary had existed previously.
Bowenian Family Therapy - correct answer...✔✔Bowen's theory and therapeutic model
is based on the family's emotional system, the differentiation of self within one's family,
and the multi-generational transmission of emotions and family patterns.
Brief Family Therapy - correct answer...✔✔DEVELOPED BY MRI (STRATEGIC): A
model of problem-focused and time-limited therapy developed by the Mental Research
Institute in Palo Alto, CA. Milton Erickson and others.
Caring Days - correct answer...✔✔From behavioral marital therapy, each partner
identifies behaviors that his/her partner finds enjoyable and makes a commitment to
increasing those behaviors.
Case-Specific Symptom Prescription - correct answer...✔✔STRATEGIC MODEL
TECHNIQUE defined as a therapeutic technique of the strategic model, in which
symptomatic or other undesirable behaviors are paradoxically encouraged in order to
lessen such behavior or bring it under conscious control.
Central Ego - correct answer...✔✔OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY:1 of 3 parts of the
ego. The Central Ego is conscious, adaptable, & free to deal with future experiences
with attachment figures in reasonable ways. The central ego maintains its own object,
the ideal object
Centrifugal - correct answer...✔✔Defined by Beavers as part of the Beavers-
Timberlawn Model, a family system dynamic in which members are expelled or
encouraged to operate at the outer periphery and seek gratification outside the family.
Centripetal - correct answer...✔✔Defined by Beavers as part of the Beavers-
Timberlawn Model, a family system dynamic in which members are tightly bound to one
another emotionally and encouraged to seek gratification from one another.
Circular Causality (Circularity) - correct answer...✔✔MILAN GROUP-Originally
developed by Bateson in his book, Steps to an Ecology of Mind. This concept was of
particular interest to the Milan Systemic who posited that causality in families cannot be
thought of as a simple, single cause and effect relationship (linear causality).Instead,
events, behaviors, & interactions are seen in a more complex way, as mutually
influencing 1another(feedback loops). Each is the effect of a prior cause & in turn
influences future behaviors. Family system events create an endless (& beginning-less)
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