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Dysfunctional Hierarchy HALEY (STRATEGIC): the primary focus of
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making structures that do not allow the family to accomplish goals and
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meet the needs of family members, for example, parents who have
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abdicated their executive function to their children.
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Marital schism parents overly focused on their own problems,
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undercut each other, compete for children's attention while failing to
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attend to children's needs
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Marital Skew __., __.,__., __., "One parent dominates the family and the other is
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dependent;
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children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that
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dysfunction or schizophrenia result"
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Pseudomutuality __.,__., __.,"Lyman Wynne __.,
Systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that masks conflict and block
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s intimacy"
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Ecosystemic Approach The therapeutic view that it is important to
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attend to the family's relationship to the larger systems -
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community, school, and work.
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, EGO An analytic concept referring to a hypothetical internal mental
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structure that both contains the individual's perception of him/herself and
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is also the rational mediator between the instinctual demands of the
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id and the internalized social prohibitions of the super-ego.
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Egodystonic __.,__., __., Phenomena or experiences at odds with an individual's
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self-perception.
ABC-
X Family Crisis Model
__., Rueben Hill's model used to explain whether
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or not a stressful event would result in crisis in some families but not in
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other's.
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A=stressor
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Accomodation Describes a variety of engagement techniques such as
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joining, used principally by Structural Family Therapists in which the
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therapist adapts themselves to the family's style of interacting.
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Acculturation The process by which immigrant group members adjust
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to the culture of their new country.
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Adaptability Term from Olson's Circumflex Model, which is a measure
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of the families ability to respond and adapt to changes in their lives.
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Also called "flexibility"-families are rated at 4 levels:
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1. Rigid
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