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3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT ✔Correct Answer-Psychoanalysis, group therapy,
and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family communication)
Betrand Russell ✔Correct Answer-Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of
abstraction)
Norbert Weiner ✔Correct Answer-Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct
a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features: feedback is an
essential feature of effective communication & said a communication theory which focuses only on
information overlooks important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks feelings, motives,
needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy ✔Correct Answer-General Systems Theory- parts of systems are
interrelated, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt
Lewis within Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby ✔Correct Answer-attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment
(anxious-resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
Paul Popenoe ✔Correct Answer-Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west
coast
Emily Mudd ✔Correct Answer--1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became
AAMFT in 1979.
John Bell ✔Correct Answer-May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family
therapy groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase, parent-centered
phase, and family-centered phase)
Robert MacGregor ✔Correct Answer-Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
Don Jackson ✔Correct Answer-Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen
together
Josef Breuer ✔Correct Answer-studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with
hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later referred to
it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what we now know Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler ✔Correct Answer-Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal
drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was
,brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority, social
interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live audience.
Nathan Ackerman ✔Correct Answer-Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family
system as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means to understanding the
hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable intervention: Tickling the Defenses
teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family to open up and say what is really on
their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY THERAPY
Lyman Wynne ✔Correct Answer-Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe
mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony and
closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and intense way
of disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary- the families seemingly
yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from outside systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than
the sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation
and readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to integrate the new point
of view into the organization as well as the individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Studied groups, importance of group dynamics,
Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Created a term Psychodrama
Peter Laque ✔Correct Answer-Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families
together in a large group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and encounter
groups. Co-therapists were often used.
David Levy ✔Correct Answer-Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of
schizophrenia, which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann ✔Correct Answer-schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive,
rejecting and insecure women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
Theodore Lidz ✔Correct Answer-Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the
etiology of illness as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother was
the cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are overly focused on their own
problems which harms marriage, the individuals and children, Marital skew- one parent dominates
the family, and the other is dependent.
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) as Palo Alto ✔Correct Answer-Gregory Bateson, William Fry,
Jay Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
Double bind ✔Correct Answer-a situation in which an individual is given two different and
inconsistent messages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship, repeated
experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract injunction, third
,injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, individual becomes conditioned to double-
bind.
Milton Erickson ✔Correct Answer-Much of his contributions were centered on the idea that
resistance to change was a key obstacle to success in therapy. Paradoxical techniques to address
resistance to changeHis therapy was done TO not WITH client. Emphasized brief therapies that were
ahistoric and problem focused.
Carl Whitaker ✔Correct Answer-symbolic-experiential family therapy. Blank slate. Therapeutic
usefulness of self-disclosure and transparency, encouraging therapists be more themselves in
therapy. Encouragement of co-therapists.
Jay Haley ✔Correct Answer-Strategic Family Therapy. Used directives to get the families to change
their behaviors and thereby break repetitive behavioral cycles.
Virginia Satir ✔Correct Answer-was often empathic with the family. She identified five styles of
relating with a family. To explore relationships within the family, she used experiential/expressive
techniques such as family sculpting and taking a family life chronology. Was associated with
experiential family therapy. Developed Human Validation Process Model.
Murray Bowen ✔Correct Answer-Known for work in intergenerational family therapy which utilized
genograms; proposed the idea of triangulation
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy ✔Correct Answer-Contextual Family Therapy. Loyalty and Trust between
members.
Salvador Minuchin ✔Correct Answer-Structural Family Therapy: uses joining, enactment, boundary
making, and mimesis techniques
Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor ✔Correct Answer-Developed Integrative Model of Family
Therapy.
Ross Speck and Carolyn Attneave ✔Correct Answer-Network Therapy by assisting families in crisis
by gathering their entire social network upward toward 50 people. Focus on breaking destructive
patterns.
Double descriptions ✔Correct Answer-Bateson: "It takes two to know one". We can't understand
one phenomenon based upon a singular description or quantity.
Doherty's Couple Sensitive Individual Therapy (CSI) ✔Correct Answer-First, build rapport by
focusing on client's emotional experience , then enter into the marital system
General Systems Theory ✔Correct Answer-Ludwig von Bertalanffy. All universal systems share
universal characteristics. The whole of the system is greater than the sum of its parts. No system can
be understood by only examining its parts. It is interdependent nature and dynamic, circular
functioning between examining its parts that must be considered when understanding the system as
a whole. The focus remains on relationships between the parts rather than how the parts contribute
to the whole. Living systems are open systems, there is a flow of information in and out of the
system. Systems are dynamic and never static. To assess the individual is to asses the system, and to
assess the system is to assess the individual.
, cybernatics ✔Correct Answer-Developed by Norbert Wiener. Allows us to zoom in and examine
precise ways in which particular systems maintain preservation. Concept of self-correction helps to
understand a family's tendency to resist change through efforts of maintaining homeostasis. Positive
feedback- forward, Negative feedback- reverse. Negative feedback serves as self-correction to bring
the system back to homeostasis. Positive feedback serves the purpose of adaptation (often a
system's response to crisis or tragedy).
Gurman and Burtson ✔Correct Answer-Individual therapy for couple-related problems (ITCP)
Entropy ✔Correct Answer-system's tendency to break down, which threatens the survival of the
system. Occurs when there is either an excess or absence of negative or positive feedback
throughout the system.
Negative entropy (systems theory) ✔Correct Answer-A system state that emerges when a system is
balanced between openness and closeness
Bateson's communication theory ✔Correct Answer-Supports sequential causality which can be
understood through interactional chains of behavior, and moderated by communication patterns.
Communication has both report and command. The report function is generally the verbal, data-
driven component of communication. The command function speaks to various definitions within
any relationship- power, structure, responsibility, and roles. Things get messy at the command level
of communication, and rarely do at the report level, but the two are never separate from one
another. The command speaks about the relationship and dynamics between those in
communication.
First-order change ✔Correct Answer-When there is a shift in family functioning/interaction while
the structure and rules that govern the family systems remain the same
Second-order change ✔Correct Answer-There is an overall shift/change in the structure of system
and the rules that govern the family system
Third-order cybernetic change ✔Correct Answer-There is not only a shift in structure or rules that
govern a system, but a complete transformation of the system and how it is experienced. Some may
call this a complete paradigm shift, or an experience of a religious conversion.
classical conditioning ✔Correct Answer-Pairs two stimuli
operant conditioning ✔Correct Answer-Pairs a behavior and response
Symmetrical relationship ✔Correct Answer-Based on equality, the behavior of one mirror that of
the other
Proxemics ✔Correct Answer-Spatial relationships
Streptic communication ✔Correct Answer-Sounds (claps, whistles)
Haptic communication ✔Correct Answer-Includes touch
Paralinguistic communication ✔Correct Answer-Includes tone, pace, and inflection.
Actual Complete Exam| Already Graded A+ (just
released)
3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT ✔Correct Answer-Psychoanalysis, group therapy,
and race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family communication)
Betrand Russell ✔Correct Answer-Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of
abstraction)
Norbert Weiner ✔Correct Answer-Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct
a family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features: feedback is an
essential feature of effective communication & said a communication theory which focuses only on
information overlooks important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks feelings, motives,
needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy ✔Correct Answer-General Systems Theory- parts of systems are
interrelated, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt
Lewis within Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby ✔Correct Answer-attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment
(anxious-resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
Paul Popenoe ✔Correct Answer-Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west
coast
Emily Mudd ✔Correct Answer--1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became
AAMFT in 1979.
John Bell ✔Correct Answer-May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family
therapy groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase, parent-centered
phase, and family-centered phase)
Robert MacGregor ✔Correct Answer-Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
Don Jackson ✔Correct Answer-Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen
together
Josef Breuer ✔Correct Answer-studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with
hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later referred to
it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what we now know Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler ✔Correct Answer-Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal
drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was
,brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority, social
interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live audience.
Nathan Ackerman ✔Correct Answer-Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family
system as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means to understanding the
hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable intervention: Tickling the Defenses
teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family to open up and say what is really on
their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY THERAPY
Lyman Wynne ✔Correct Answer-Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe
mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony and
closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and intense way
of disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary- the families seemingly
yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from outside systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than
the sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation
and readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to integrate the new point
of view into the organization as well as the individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Studied groups, importance of group dynamics,
Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) ✔Correct Answer-Created a term Psychodrama
Peter Laque ✔Correct Answer-Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families
together in a large group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and encounter
groups. Co-therapists were often used.
David Levy ✔Correct Answer-Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of
schizophrenia, which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann ✔Correct Answer-schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive,
rejecting and insecure women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
Theodore Lidz ✔Correct Answer-Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the
etiology of illness as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother was
the cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are overly focused on their own
problems which harms marriage, the individuals and children, Marital skew- one parent dominates
the family, and the other is dependent.
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) as Palo Alto ✔Correct Answer-Gregory Bateson, William Fry,
Jay Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
Double bind ✔Correct Answer-a situation in which an individual is given two different and
inconsistent messages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship, repeated
experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract injunction, third
,injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, individual becomes conditioned to double-
bind.
Milton Erickson ✔Correct Answer-Much of his contributions were centered on the idea that
resistance to change was a key obstacle to success in therapy. Paradoxical techniques to address
resistance to changeHis therapy was done TO not WITH client. Emphasized brief therapies that were
ahistoric and problem focused.
Carl Whitaker ✔Correct Answer-symbolic-experiential family therapy. Blank slate. Therapeutic
usefulness of self-disclosure and transparency, encouraging therapists be more themselves in
therapy. Encouragement of co-therapists.
Jay Haley ✔Correct Answer-Strategic Family Therapy. Used directives to get the families to change
their behaviors and thereby break repetitive behavioral cycles.
Virginia Satir ✔Correct Answer-was often empathic with the family. She identified five styles of
relating with a family. To explore relationships within the family, she used experiential/expressive
techniques such as family sculpting and taking a family life chronology. Was associated with
experiential family therapy. Developed Human Validation Process Model.
Murray Bowen ✔Correct Answer-Known for work in intergenerational family therapy which utilized
genograms; proposed the idea of triangulation
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy ✔Correct Answer-Contextual Family Therapy. Loyalty and Trust between
members.
Salvador Minuchin ✔Correct Answer-Structural Family Therapy: uses joining, enactment, boundary
making, and mimesis techniques
Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor ✔Correct Answer-Developed Integrative Model of Family
Therapy.
Ross Speck and Carolyn Attneave ✔Correct Answer-Network Therapy by assisting families in crisis
by gathering their entire social network upward toward 50 people. Focus on breaking destructive
patterns.
Double descriptions ✔Correct Answer-Bateson: "It takes two to know one". We can't understand
one phenomenon based upon a singular description or quantity.
Doherty's Couple Sensitive Individual Therapy (CSI) ✔Correct Answer-First, build rapport by
focusing on client's emotional experience , then enter into the marital system
General Systems Theory ✔Correct Answer-Ludwig von Bertalanffy. All universal systems share
universal characteristics. The whole of the system is greater than the sum of its parts. No system can
be understood by only examining its parts. It is interdependent nature and dynamic, circular
functioning between examining its parts that must be considered when understanding the system as
a whole. The focus remains on relationships between the parts rather than how the parts contribute
to the whole. Living systems are open systems, there is a flow of information in and out of the
system. Systems are dynamic and never static. To assess the individual is to asses the system, and to
assess the system is to assess the individual.
, cybernatics ✔Correct Answer-Developed by Norbert Wiener. Allows us to zoom in and examine
precise ways in which particular systems maintain preservation. Concept of self-correction helps to
understand a family's tendency to resist change through efforts of maintaining homeostasis. Positive
feedback- forward, Negative feedback- reverse. Negative feedback serves as self-correction to bring
the system back to homeostasis. Positive feedback serves the purpose of adaptation (often a
system's response to crisis or tragedy).
Gurman and Burtson ✔Correct Answer-Individual therapy for couple-related problems (ITCP)
Entropy ✔Correct Answer-system's tendency to break down, which threatens the survival of the
system. Occurs when there is either an excess or absence of negative or positive feedback
throughout the system.
Negative entropy (systems theory) ✔Correct Answer-A system state that emerges when a system is
balanced between openness and closeness
Bateson's communication theory ✔Correct Answer-Supports sequential causality which can be
understood through interactional chains of behavior, and moderated by communication patterns.
Communication has both report and command. The report function is generally the verbal, data-
driven component of communication. The command function speaks to various definitions within
any relationship- power, structure, responsibility, and roles. Things get messy at the command level
of communication, and rarely do at the report level, but the two are never separate from one
another. The command speaks about the relationship and dynamics between those in
communication.
First-order change ✔Correct Answer-When there is a shift in family functioning/interaction while
the structure and rules that govern the family systems remain the same
Second-order change ✔Correct Answer-There is an overall shift/change in the structure of system
and the rules that govern the family system
Third-order cybernetic change ✔Correct Answer-There is not only a shift in structure or rules that
govern a system, but a complete transformation of the system and how it is experienced. Some may
call this a complete paradigm shift, or an experience of a religious conversion.
classical conditioning ✔Correct Answer-Pairs two stimuli
operant conditioning ✔Correct Answer-Pairs a behavior and response
Symmetrical relationship ✔Correct Answer-Based on equality, the behavior of one mirror that of
the other
Proxemics ✔Correct Answer-Spatial relationships
Streptic communication ✔Correct Answer-Sounds (claps, whistles)
Haptic communication ✔Correct Answer-Includes touch
Paralinguistic communication ✔Correct Answer-Includes tone, pace, and inflection.
