COUN 601THEORIES - FINAL EXAM (SYSTEMS,
GESTALT, ETC)
systems - Answer -the network of human relationships that closely affect their
psychological life
nuclear family - Answer -father, mother, and children
extended family - Answer -grandparents, parents, children, and other relatives
Murray Bowen - Answer -systemic theory:
multigenerational patters (genograms)
social learning/modeling
symptoms serve a function
circular questioning
rituals
changing of rules
differentiation = maturity (fusion vs diff)
triangulation technique
chronic anxiety
emotional cutoff
Salvador Minuchin - Answer -structural theory:
set of rules and demands of family
organizational theory
family structure determines all interactions
in-session manipulation of family interaction
disengagement and enmeshment
boundaries (permeable vs rigid)
subsystems
coalitions
power
Haley and Madanes - Answer -strategic theory:
quickly outwitting resistance to change
communication theory
cognitive-behaviorism
triangle as basic building block of emotional system
circular causality
power and control
directives
paradoxes
reframing
, Whitaker and Satir - Answer -experiential theory:
emotional deadness
existentialism and humanism
congruent communication
awareness
alienation
growth experiences
gestalt techniques
White - Answer -narrative theory:
dominate stories that shape families
phenomenology
states of wellness
externalizing
reflecting team
therapeutic letters
unique outcomes
meaning of problem
miracle question
homeostasis - Answer -external conditions, inputs, and events create change in the
system, but its way of dealing with them shows stability. occurs when maintenance of
the status quo is being reinforced and deviation from family norms is punished
boundaries - Answer -what separates a system from other systems it interacts with
circular causality - Answer -changes in any part of the system affect other parts and
might reverberate through the whole system
permeable - Answer -the amount of interaction your family has with the outside world,
the more permeable
the more different ways of doing things and looking at things are available
as you get older, your family changes to accommodate changes in the individual within
it
rules - Answer -can be spoken or unspoken
coalitions and subsystems - Answer -systems create their own power, rules, and
relationships to other individuals and subsystems (ex. mother/father, sister/brother)
triangle - Answer -a basic subsystem
a system of three or more members in which two are distressed by conflict, deficit, or
alienation in their relationship and a third is brought in to stabilize their togetherness or
to provide a relief from the tension
(ex. have baby to save marriage/use of a counselor)
GESTALT, ETC)
systems - Answer -the network of human relationships that closely affect their
psychological life
nuclear family - Answer -father, mother, and children
extended family - Answer -grandparents, parents, children, and other relatives
Murray Bowen - Answer -systemic theory:
multigenerational patters (genograms)
social learning/modeling
symptoms serve a function
circular questioning
rituals
changing of rules
differentiation = maturity (fusion vs diff)
triangulation technique
chronic anxiety
emotional cutoff
Salvador Minuchin - Answer -structural theory:
set of rules and demands of family
organizational theory
family structure determines all interactions
in-session manipulation of family interaction
disengagement and enmeshment
boundaries (permeable vs rigid)
subsystems
coalitions
power
Haley and Madanes - Answer -strategic theory:
quickly outwitting resistance to change
communication theory
cognitive-behaviorism
triangle as basic building block of emotional system
circular causality
power and control
directives
paradoxes
reframing
, Whitaker and Satir - Answer -experiential theory:
emotional deadness
existentialism and humanism
congruent communication
awareness
alienation
growth experiences
gestalt techniques
White - Answer -narrative theory:
dominate stories that shape families
phenomenology
states of wellness
externalizing
reflecting team
therapeutic letters
unique outcomes
meaning of problem
miracle question
homeostasis - Answer -external conditions, inputs, and events create change in the
system, but its way of dealing with them shows stability. occurs when maintenance of
the status quo is being reinforced and deviation from family norms is punished
boundaries - Answer -what separates a system from other systems it interacts with
circular causality - Answer -changes in any part of the system affect other parts and
might reverberate through the whole system
permeable - Answer -the amount of interaction your family has with the outside world,
the more permeable
the more different ways of doing things and looking at things are available
as you get older, your family changes to accommodate changes in the individual within
it
rules - Answer -can be spoken or unspoken
coalitions and subsystems - Answer -systems create their own power, rules, and
relationships to other individuals and subsystems (ex. mother/father, sister/brother)
triangle - Answer -a basic subsystem
a system of three or more members in which two are distressed by conflict, deficit, or
alienation in their relationship and a third is brought in to stabilize their togetherness or
to provide a relief from the tension
(ex. have baby to save marriage/use of a counselor)
