Family Therapy Models Flashcards
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In Functional Family Therapy (FFT), the primary goal of the motivation phase is to:
Answer: Reduce negativity and blame while increasing hope for change
The motivation phase of FFT focuses on reducing negativity, blaming, and hopelessness to create a therapeutic alliance and readiness for change.
Which of the following best distinguishes Narrative Therapy from other postmodern family therapy approaches?
Answer: Its use of 'unique outcomes' or 'sparkling moments' to build alternative stories
Narrative Therapy specifically searches for unique outcomes — times when the problem's influence was resisted — to use as building blocks for an alternative, preferred story.
A therapist working with a couple using Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) employs 'empathic joining' to:
Answer: Help partners see each other's vulnerabilities underlying their problematic behavior
Empathic joining in IBCT involves formulating the couple's conflict in terms of each partner's underlying vulnerabilities, fostering compassion rather than blame.
When a Bowenian therapist encourages a client to visit their family of origin and interact without their usual emotional reactivity, this is called:
Answer: A person-to-person relationship assignment
Bowen assigned clients person-to-person relationship tasks — direct, one-on-one contact with family members — to increase differentiation and reduce triangulation.
The concept of 'multipartiality' in Contextual Family Therapy (Boszormenyi-Nagy) means the therapist:
Answer: Sequentially takes each family member's side to understand their legitimate claims
Multipartiality involves the therapist sequentially siding with each family member to validate their relational claims and obligations, rather than remaining neutral.
In EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) for couples, a 'withdrawer re-engagement' involves:
Answer: Helping the withdrawing partner access and express attachment needs and fears
Withdrawer re-engagement is an EFT change event in which the withdrawing partner accesses underlying attachment fears and begins to reach for the other partner.
A family therapist using a psychoeducational model (such as Anderson's model for schizophrenia) would primarily focus on:
Answer: Providing families with information about the illness and coping strategies to reduce expressed emotion
Psychoeducational models provide families with accurate information about the illness, reduce expressed emotion (EE), and teach coping and communication skills to reduce relapse.