NCE Marriage and Family Counseling
What does AAMFT stand for? -
✅American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (M& F Counseling is a profession)
ACA - IAMFC -
✅International Association for Marriage and Family Counselors (counseling M&F is is a specialty)
Who is Nathan Ackerman MD? -
✅Grandfather of Family Therapy and the founder of psychoanalytic family therapy.
Psychoanalytic Family Theory emphasizes...? -
✅that one thing causes another. Linear Causality. Cause Effect Model
Object Relations -
✅An object is another person that the child wants to bond with to meet his or her needs. Intra-
psychic conflicts from ones FOO continues to affect the relationships with his or her spouse and
children.
What does James Framo suggest? -
✅That Object Relations gets in the way of people changing because they have parental introjects.
When does introjection (imprints) take place? -
✅When you incorporate a parent's attitude as your own. Introjects are imprints or memories fro
the past that are generally based on unresolved relationships with a parent
Who is James Framo? -
✅A Analytic object relations family therapy expert.
Splitting -
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, ✅When a young child turns an object into all good or all bad and then internalizes the
perception.
What happens if splitting is not resolved? -
✅this individual as an adult will view people as all bad or all good. Or they will see the same
person as all good or all bad at different times.
Who is Virginia Satir? -
✅Wrote Conjoint Family Therapy
Conjoint Family Therapy -
✅The therapist joins with the family to improve family functioning.
Conjoint -
✅The therapist works with two or more family members.
What did Satir delineate? -
✅Four patterns or styles of dysfunctional communication that exist when family members
experience stress
Placater -
✅tries to please everyone in there family
Blamer -
✅insist that everything is everybody else's fault.
Analyzer -
✅Emotionally detached calm cool and prone to intellectualization
Detractor -
✅totally removed and talks about things that are totally irrelevant
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What does AAMFT stand for? -
✅American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (M& F Counseling is a profession)
ACA - IAMFC -
✅International Association for Marriage and Family Counselors (counseling M&F is is a specialty)
Who is Nathan Ackerman MD? -
✅Grandfather of Family Therapy and the founder of psychoanalytic family therapy.
Psychoanalytic Family Theory emphasizes...? -
✅that one thing causes another. Linear Causality. Cause Effect Model
Object Relations -
✅An object is another person that the child wants to bond with to meet his or her needs. Intra-
psychic conflicts from ones FOO continues to affect the relationships with his or her spouse and
children.
What does James Framo suggest? -
✅That Object Relations gets in the way of people changing because they have parental introjects.
When does introjection (imprints) take place? -
✅When you incorporate a parent's attitude as your own. Introjects are imprints or memories fro
the past that are generally based on unresolved relationships with a parent
Who is James Framo? -
✅A Analytic object relations family therapy expert.
Splitting -
1|Page
, ✅When a young child turns an object into all good or all bad and then internalizes the
perception.
What happens if splitting is not resolved? -
✅this individual as an adult will view people as all bad or all good. Or they will see the same
person as all good or all bad at different times.
Who is Virginia Satir? -
✅Wrote Conjoint Family Therapy
Conjoint Family Therapy -
✅The therapist joins with the family to improve family functioning.
Conjoint -
✅The therapist works with two or more family members.
What did Satir delineate? -
✅Four patterns or styles of dysfunctional communication that exist when family members
experience stress
Placater -
✅tries to please everyone in there family
Blamer -
✅insist that everything is everybody else's fault.
Analyzer -
✅Emotionally detached calm cool and prone to intellectualization
Detractor -
✅totally removed and talks about things that are totally irrelevant
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