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What type of therapist believes in the concept of multidirectional partiality and the idea that a well-functioning family is not necessarily free of symptoms but is relationally balanced?
Which therapist type would help clients examine their story and look at other ways the story could be told or understood differently?
What type of therapist would use emotion regulation and mindfulness as interventions?
Which therapist type would use mirroring as an intervention tool with couples?
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What type of therapist assists families in navigating the healthcare system and accepts that there is an identified patient within the family?
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Which therapist believes that increased self-awareness, released blocked resources, and improved communication must occur to help facilitate change?
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What type of therapist may use Socratic questioning to explore a client’s maladaptive thoughts or beliefs?
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Which therapist believes that there is no identified patient within the family system, but rather the family system is the problem and thus the prime focus?
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What type of therapist would use activating stress or conflict within a family system to facilitate change?
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Which therapist type would teach couples about flooding and train them to take their pulse as a way to decrease conflict?
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In which therapy approach is the therapist viewed as a process consultant and believes that emotion is an agent of change?
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Which theorist believes in the therapeutic goal of increasing balance and harmony between the sub-personalities or parts that exist in the internal system?
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A/an __________ therapist would join the family system to blend in with the family and adapt their affect, style, and language.
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As a/an __________ therapist, you may use a therapeutic paradox as an intervention when working with families.
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A/an __________ therapist would utilize positive reinforcement in order to increase the frequency of a behavior by rewarding that behavior.
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A/an __________ therapist would utilize the empty chair technique as an intervention with clients.
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A/an __________ therapist would observe the feedback loops that occur in the family system.
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A/an __________ therapist would use self-disclosure as a way to demystify therapy and equalize the power imbalance in the therapeutic relationship.
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One of the main goals of a/an __________ therapist is detriangulation.
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A/an __________ therapist would utilize brief, goal-directed therapy that focuses the conversation toward developing solutions rather than on the problems.
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A/an __________ therapist would focus on the emotional experience and expression of family members.
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A/an __________ therapist would explore the intergenerational transmission of behavior patterns within the family.
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A/an __________ therapist would focus on changing the negative interactional patterns within the family.
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A/an __________ therapist would emphasize the importance of the family narrative and storytelling in therapy.
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What is the main focus of Structural Family Therapy?
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What is the role of the therapist in Structural Family Therapy?
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What does the term 'coalitions' refer to in the context of Structural Family Therapy?
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What does the concept of 'family structure' refer to in Structural Family Therapy?
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What is the theory of change in Structural Family Therapy based on?
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What are 'alignments' in the context of Structural Family Therapy?
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What is the main view of symptoms in Structural Family Therapy?
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In family therapy, what is the term used to describe boundaries that are blurred and there is little sense of separateness within the family system?
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What is the term for when two or more individuals function as a team and recognize that they depend on each other to achieve particular tasks in family therapy?
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What is the term for the technique used by the therapist that redefines the original interpretation of an issue and offers a new, more constructive perspective in family therapy?
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What is the term for an intervention that encourages the family to act out a relationship dynamic during the therapeutic session in family therapy?
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In family therapy, what is the term for the process where the therapist gains temporary acceptance into the family by engaging with individual members and subsystems?
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What is the term for the intervention in family therapy where the therapist deliberately increases the level of stress through the use of enactments?
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In family therapy, what is the term for the phase where the therapist reinforces structural change and provides tools for the future?
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What is the term for a diagram, developed and used by the therapist outside of the therapeutic session, to identify boundaries, structures, and relationships within the family system in family therapy?
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Study Notes
Therapists and Techniques
- A Postmodern therapist believes in the concept of multidirectional partiality and the idea that a well-functioning family is not necessarily free of symptoms but is relationally balanced.
- A Narrative therapist helps clients examine their story and look at other ways the story could be told or understood differently.
- A Mindfulness-based therapist uses emotion regulation and mindfulness as interventions.
- A Structural Family Therapist uses mirroring as an intervention tool with couples.
- A Medical Family Therapist assists families in navigating the healthcare system and accepts that there is an identified patient within the family.
- A Bowen Therapist believes that increased self-awareness, released blocked resources, and improved communication must occur to help facilitate change.
- A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist may use Socratic questioning to explore a client’s maladaptive thoughts or beliefs.
- A Family Systems Therapist believes that there is no identified patient within the family system, but rather the family system is the problem and thus the prime focus.
- A Milan Systemic Therapist would use activating stress or conflict within a family system to facilitate change.
- A Gottman Method Therapist teaches couples about flooding and trains them to take their pulse as a way to decrease conflict.
- In Bowen Therapy, the therapist is viewed as a process consultant, and emotion is seen as an agent of change.
- A Gestalt Therapist believes in the therapeutic goal of increasing balance and harmony between the sub-personalities or parts that exist in the internal system.
- A Milan Systemic Therapist joins the family system to blend in with the family and adapt their affect, style, and language.
- A Paradoxical Therapist uses therapeutic paradox as an intervention when working with families.
- An Operant Therapist utilizes positive reinforcement in order to increase the frequency of a behavior by rewarding that behavior.
- A Gestalt Therapist utilizes the empty chair technique as an intervention with clients.
- A Bowen Therapist observes the feedback loops that occur in the family system.
- A Humanistic Therapist uses self-disclosure as a way to demystify therapy and equalize the power imbalance in the therapeutic relationship.
- A Bowen Therapist's main goal is detriangulation.
- A Solution-Focused Therapist utilizes brief, goal-directed therapy that focuses the conversation toward developing solutions rather than on the problems.
- An Emotionally Focused Therapist focuses on the emotional experience and expression of family members.
- A Family Systems Therapist explores the intergenerational transmission of behavior patterns within the family.
- A Structural Family Therapist focuses on changing the negative interactional patterns within the family.
- A Narrative Therapist emphasizes the importance of the family narrative and storytelling in therapy.
Structural Family Therapy
- The main focus of Structural Family Therapy is to identify and challenge the family's dysfunctional structure and patterns of interaction.
- The role of the therapist in Structural Family Therapy is to work with the family to reorganize their structure and communication patterns.
- The term 'coalitions' refers to a temporary alliance between two or more family members against another member.
- The term 'family structure' refers to the organizational and hierarchical patterns of the family system.
- The theory of change in Structural Family Therapy is based on the idea that change occurs through the reorganization of the family's structure and patterns of interaction.
- 'Alignments' refer to the temporary and shifting alliances between family members.
- The main view of symptoms in Structural Family Therapy is that they are an indication of a dysfunctional family structure.
- 'Enmeshment' refers to boundaries that are blurred and there is little sense of separateness within the family system.
- 'Teamwork' refers to when two or more individuals function as a team and recognize that they depend on each other to achieve particular tasks.
- 'Reframing' is a technique used by the therapist that redefines the original interpretation of an issue and offers a new, more constructive perspective.
- 'Enactment' is an intervention that encourages the family to act out a relationship dynamic during the therapeutic session.
- 'Joining' is the process where the therapist gains temporary acceptance into the family by engaging with individual members and subsystems.
- 'Unbalancing' is an intervention that deliberately increases the level of stress through the use of enactments.
- 'Consolidation' is the phase where the therapist reinforces structural change and provides tools for the future.
- A 'genogram' is a diagram, developed and used by the therapist outside of the therapeutic session, to identify boundaries, structures, and relationships within the family system.
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Test your knowledge of therapy theories with this quiz. Identify the therapy indicated by the given sentence and expand your understanding of attachment, behavioral, CBT, collaborative language systems, constructivist, contextual, cybernetics, DBT, EFT, feminist, general systems, gestalt, Gottman, human validation process model, imago, internal family systems, medical family, narrative, and more.
