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All Family Therapists.... - ANS Look beyond the individual and toward the system and are always conceptualizing the person's struggle within the system's context Like human systems, Family therapists believe - ANS That no individual can be understood without understanding the system to which he or she is a part of and the dynamics between various relationships within that system & no system can be understood without understanding the individual within the system When looking at the a...

Experiential Therapists - ANS Would exhibit empathy and facilitate expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship Parent Child Relational Problem - ANS Given when the focus of attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication and the behavior impair family functioning. Undifferentiated family ego mass - ANS Bowenian Term referring to intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation Splitting - ANS Defense mech...

Classical Conditioning: - ANS A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a laboratory or other controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned stimulus (US) which naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired with a neutral stimulus that does not initially elicit a response. Through the repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus (now the conditioned stimulus - CS) begins to elicit the desired response (now the conditioned response - CR). Coercion (Aversive ...

Detriangulation - ANS Bowen: The process by which an individual removes self from emotional field of two others Formulation - ANS A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible for creating and maintaining a client's presenting problem Process - ANS How members of a family or group relate; in contrast to content, which is what they talk about Treatment contract - ANS An explicit agreement between the client and therapist that specifies the terms of therapy, including things...