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Marriage & Family Therapy Final ECoalition - An alliance between two persons or social units against a third. Communications theory - The study of relationships in terms of the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages. Double bind - A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment. Metacommunication - Every message has 2 levels, report and command; is ...

Marriage & Family MWhich of the following contributed to the development and growth of family therapy? - The initial establishment of marriage counseling; pg. 5 Which of the following groups, in the 1920s and 1930s, worked with families from an educational perspective to help them to better understand the dynamics of their family situation? - Marriage Counselors; pg. 5 Which one of these individuals is responsible for forming the American Association of Marriage Counselors ...

Marital and Family Therapy Nichols Etiology - causation of a diseased or condition. What caused the problem? Homeostasis - A balanced steady state of equilibrium. Family resist change keeping things the same. Double Blind - A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment. schism - splitting not working together, couples work together. skew -...

Fundamental Arrtibution Error - The belief that human behavior is best attributed to person variables rather than environmental/contextual variables What is the fundamental premise of family systems therapy? - that people are products of their social contexts and environments When did clinicians begin treating whole families together? - Mid 1950s What is the golden age of family therapy or systems approaches? - 1975 to 1985 What period represents social co...

Bowen - Developer of Family Systems Theory. Psychodymanic and Systems Approach - Bowen's family theory is the bridge between ______ and ____ Emotional Cutoff - Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family Nuclear family emotional system - Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the same level differentiation equivalent to their own Sibling position - Research on the relationship between birth order and personalit...

Marriage and Family Therapy T Bowen - Developer of Family Systems Theory. Psychodymanic and Systems Approach - Bowen's family theory is the bridge between ______ and ____ Emotional Cutoff - Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family Nuclear family emotional system - Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the same level differentiation equivalent to their own Sibling position - Research on the relationship bet...

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Marriage and Family T Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from: - family problems Family therapy is particularly effective with: - adult obesity AND couple distress Before 1940, mental health treatment focused on: - individuals The systems theory developed by Ludwig Von Bertanlanffy had less reliance on ____ and more emphasis on ____. - linear causality: circular causality The only woman pioneer in the early days of family therap...

Marriage and Family TherapyMarriage and Family THow does structural therapy address the problems in a family? - By charting the relationship between family members and between subsets of family. What does the therapy do? - Tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family? What does structural therapy focus on? - family organization and boundaries and the ways in which these structures govern interactional patterns. Structural therapist attempt to - ...