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Group and Family Therapy emotionally fused – In family therapy, a type of family relationship resulting from incomplete differentiation of self whereby family Insoo Kim Berg –...

Group and Family Therapy emotionally fused – In family therapy, a type of family relationship resulting from incomplete differentiation of self whereby family Insoo Kim Berg – A leading figure in solution-focused family therapy members remain overly emotionally connected with one another boundaries – An essential concept in structural family therapy; the enmeshed – In structural family therapy, an unhealthy type of divisions between family subsystems relationship among family members resulting from overly permeable boundaries between subsystems Murray Bowen – A leading figure in family therapy who is closely associated with the concept of differentiation of self exception questions – In solution-focused family therapy, a technique whereby therapists ask families to recall situations when the problem circular causality – In contrast to linear causality, a theory typically was absent or less severe endorsed by family therapists whereby events influence one another in a reciprocal way extra-group socializing – A problematic and discouraged behavior among group therapy members; interacting as friends, romantic closed-enrollment groups – In contrast to open-enrollment groups, partners, and so on, outside the group sessions therapy groups in which all members start and finish therapy together, with no new members added during the process family life cycle – A six-stage theory of family development that can be modified to account for the wide variety of families that a family communication patterns – An area commonly targeted by family therapist may see therapists as the source of psychological symptoms and an area for improvement in family therapy family structure – In family therapy, the implicit rules that govern family members’ behavior Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) – A questionnaire designed to assess how individuals behave when family conflicts arise, often used to explore family therapy - A form of psychotherapy in which family members interpersonal abuse or violence attend sessions together and a primary goal is the improvement of dysfunctional characteristics of the family system cotherapist – A therapist who coleads group therapy sessions with another therapist feedback – In family therapy, action taken by a family member to return the family to a state of homeostasis Steve deShazer – A leading figure in solution-focused family therapy formula first-session task – In solution-focused family therapy, a differentiation of self – In family therapy, the healthy process whereby technique whereby clients are instructed to take note in the upcoming families allow each member to become his or her own person without week of aspects of their lives they want to continue sacrificing emotional closeness with other members of the family functionalism – In family therapy, the belief that although disengaged – In structural family therapy, an unhealthy type of psychological symptoms may appear maladaptive, they are in fact relationship among family members resulting from overly rigid functional within the family environment of the individual boundaries between subsystems genogram – A pencil-and-paper assessment technique in family therapy Salvador Minuchin – A leading figure in structural family therapy involving the creation of a family tree that incorporates detailed information about the relationships among family members miracle questions – In solution-focused family therapy, a technique whereby therapists ask families to imagine life without the problem group cohesiveness – A therapeutic factor in group therapy; feelings of interconnectedness among group members and the equivalent of the multisystemic family therapy – A contemporary form of family therapist–client relationship in individual therapy therapy designed to address long-term adolescent behavioral, emotional, and legal problems through interaction with multiple group therapy – A form of psychotherapy in which multiple clients systems, including immediate family, school, and community participate in sessions together and interpersonal interaction is typically emphasized narrative therapy - A contemporary form of family therapy that emphasizes the revision of the stories that family members use to here and now – A focus in group therapy on the present interpersonal explain and interpret the events in their lives such that the stories interactions with fellow group members rather than events that have describe the members more positively happened in clients’ lives outside the group open-enrollment groups – In contrast to closed-enrollment groups, heterogeneous groups – Therapy groups in which no single common therapy groups in which individual members are allowed to enter or characteristic (such as a diagnosis) is shared by all members leave the group at any time homeostasis – In family therapy, the notion that systems have the ability recapitulation of the family group – A phenomenon in group therapy to regulate themselves by returning themselves to a comfort zone or “set whereby a group evokes the same dynamics as a client’s family of origin point” scaling questions – In solution-focused family therapy, a technique homogeneous groups – Therapy groups in which all members share a whereby therapists ask families to rate the severity of a problem over common characteristic, such as a diagnosis time and emphasize strategies the families have used to cause the reductions in severity identified patient – In family therapy, the family member whose symptoms are most obvious or problematic to other members social microcosm – A phenomenon in group therapy whereby the relationship tendencies that characterize clients’ relationships with interpersonal interaction – An emphasis of most forms of group important people in their personal lives predictably characterize the therapy whereby therapists attempt to improve clients’ abilities to relate relationships they form with their fellow group members to others in healthy ways solution-focused therapy – A contemporary approach to family therapy interpersonal learning – A therapeutic factor in group therapy; that relies on solution-talk and similar techniques in attempting to solve learning from the in-group interpersonal experience families’ problems linear causality – In contrast to circular causality, a theory typically solution-talk – An essential aspect of solution-focused family therapy endorsed by individual therapists whereby events from the past cause or whereby therapists emphasize positive outcomes that the future may determine events in the present in a unidirectional manner hold rather than unpleasant situations that characterize the present to help clients begin to adopt a more positive point of view strategic family therapy – A pragmatic, problem-focused approach to family therapy from which solution-focused therapy evolved subsystems – An essential concept in structural family therapy; subgroups of family members separated by boundaries systems approach – A foundation of family therapy whereby clinical problems originate in the family system rather than in an individual family member triangle – In family therapy, a phenomenon in which one or both of two family members in conflict attempt to bring a third member into the conflict to garner support undifferentiated ego mass – In family therapy, a term used to describe an emotionally fused family universality – A therapeutic factor in group therapy; the experience that one’s problems are not unique but are common to others Irvin Yalom – A leading figure in contemporary group therapy, especially the interpersonal approach