MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY EXAM WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
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Marriage & Family Therapy
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Marriage & Family Therapy
Analog / Non-verbal Communication: - CORRECTNon-verbal + Context
- Voice, body language, facial expression all indicate the sender's meaning & intention
Autopoiesis: - CORRECTA system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.
Boundaries: - CORRECT- Allow the family system to accept usef...
MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY EXAM
WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Analog / Non-verbal Communication: - CORRECT✔✔Non-verbal + Context
- Voice, body language, facial expression all indicate the sender's meaning & intention
Autopoiesis: - CORRECT✔✔A system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.
Boundaries: - CORRECT✔✔- Allow the family system to accept useful information and screen out
unacceptable information.
- Open: No distinction made between systems
- Rigid: Permits little contact with outside subsystems, resulting in disengagement
- Diffused: Permeable and permit easy interaction/influence with other subsystems, but can result in
enmeshment
- Healthy families have clear boundaries to protect the separateness and autonomy and permeable
enough to ensure mutual support and affection.
Child-Centered Family: - CORRECT✔✔All revolves around the child.
Circular vs. Linear Causality: - CORRECT✔✔- Linear: A influences B, but B does not influence A
- Circular: Reciprocal. A & B are in dynamic interaction. Ex: "When I treat you like a child, you behave like
a child."
Circumplex Model: - CORRECT✔✔- Cohesion: Across the top. Low to high. Left to right. Ranges from
Disengaged to Separated to Connected to Enmeshed.
- Flexibility: On the side. High to Low. Top to Bottom. Ranges from Chaotic to Flexible to Structured to
Rigid.
Context: - CORRECT✔✔- Closely associated with Non-verbal Communication.
,- The context in which something was said.
- A change in context indicated a change in the rules of a relationship.
- To change behavior we try to facilitate change through a change in context.
Closed vs. Open Systems: - CORRECT✔✔- Open and closed-ness refers to the boundaries a family
established around & between the family systems & other systems.
- Open: Allows for greater input from others.
- Closed: Less input from others.
Complementary: - CORRECT✔✔- A relationship in which members are using opposite behavior in an
attempt to narrow down the # of possible next moves by the other.
- Unilateral efforts to regulate
Consensual Domains: - CORRECT✔✔- Mutual interactions that change the system.
- The observer is part of the observed. (Second order)
"When participants in a relationship interact with each other, a particular reality is created as a result of
their interaction."
Counter Paradox: - CORRECT✔✔- Disrupting paradoxical behavior in a family.
- "No change" is an example of this behavior.
- Therapeutic double blinds used to warn against premature change which allow the family to feel more
"acceptable" and un-blamed for how they behave.
- Goal is to help family discover & counter paradoxical patterns, thereby interrupting their repetitive and
unproductive habits/behaviors.
Digital / Verbal Communication: - CORRECT✔✔- Digital = Words or labels used to transmit information.
Disengagement: - CORRECT✔✔- A process of disengagement from social life that people experience as
they age and become elderly
Double-Bind: - CORRECT✔✔- Two conflicting messages being sent at the same time.
,Entropy: - CORRECT✔✔- Tendency to move toward randomness or an undifferentiated state, which can
lead to disorder & loss of distinction. Refers to the lack of energy & useful information in a system.
- Conversely, NEGATIVE ENTROPY, describes a move away from disorder towards an appropriated state of
order & balance.
Enmeshment: - CORRECT✔✔- A relationship between two or more people in which personal boundaries
are permeable and unclear.
Epistemology of Participation: - CORRECT✔✔- All knowledge is subjective.
- Reality in a family is a co-creation.
- As the therapist, you do not drive, are not the expert & do not get to decide how the family should
behave.
Equi-finality: - CORRECT✔✔- Many ways to get to the same place.
- Systems therapy focuses on what is rather than how it came to be by examining the system patterns,
communication & processes as they are.
- The problem is maintained by attempting to resolve in in the same old unsuccessful way.
Extended Family: - CORRECT✔✔Extends beyond the nuclear family.
- Mother's trust in herself & her child is communicated to the infant.
- Virtue is Hope which forms the foundation for faith.
Erickson's Developmental Tasks:
2nd - Early Childhood - Muscular - Anal - CORRECT✔✔- Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt.
, - Related to muscular maturation & ability to hold & let go.
- Learns to exert control over self & others.
- Shame is related to being caught with pants down.
- Doubt is related to awareness of having a front & a back.
- Virtue is Will.
Erickson's Developmental Tasks:
3rd - Play Age Locomotor - Genital - CORRECT✔✔- Initiative vs. Guilt.
- Increased mobility, inquisitiveness & language.
- Eager to learn & master.
- Direction & purpose.
- Conscience & self-regulation.
- Virtue is Purpose.
Erickson's Developmental Tasks:
4th - School Age - Latency - CORRECT✔✔- Industry vs. Inferiority.
- Entrance into outside world & school.
- New sense of evaluation of accomplishment.
- Attitudes & opinions of accomplishment.
- Inferiority is a result of failure to achieve the respect of parents of teachers.
- Virtue is Competence.
Erickson's Developmental Tasks:
5th - Adolescence - CORRECT✔✔- Identity vs. Identity Confusion.
- Integration of past experiences into new whole.
- Try on new roles.
- Crucial stage.
- Doubts about sexual attractiveness or identity.
- Over-identification.
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