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I truly and honestly believe in the power of family systems
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My main worries as a family therapist are:
This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in his family was as significant for his approach to family therapy as Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis
Salvador Minuchin
Jay Hailey
Murray Bowen
Carl Whitaker
The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general categories, joining and
disengaging maneuvers
taking an "I" position
paradoxical interventions
restructuring techniques
The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady state is known as
homeostasis
the black box concept
paradox
complementarity
One problem with treating families as though they were groups like any other group is that:
it fails to consider the intrapsychic components of family problems
it fails to appreciate the need for hierarchy and structure
family members are released from their inhibitions
there is no problem with treating families like any other group
A conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship, and cannot leave or comment is known as a:
reframe
complementarity
quid pro quo
double bind
A relationship in which husband and wife both pursue careers and share housekeeping and childrearing responsibilities is_____
complementary
unrealistic
competitive
symmetrical
Communications family therapists hypothesized that normal families can maintain integrity in the face of environmental vagaries through ______________.
positive feedback
negative feedback
metacommunication
therapeutic double-binds
Explain "homeostasis"
The stages of a family's life from separation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older, retirement, and finally death, are known as the:
family structure
homeostasis
function of the system
family life cycle
