Family Therapy, Ch. 1
The Essentials of Family Therapy, by M. Nichols
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- Family therapists assume that...
- dominant forces in our lives are located externally, within the family. When family organization is transformed, the life of every family member is altered accordingly.
- Individual therapy is particularly useful...
- when it seems that the client's situation has not changed, and yet the client is suddenly in distress.
- Freud opted for individual therapy so that...
- the understandings and misunderstandings of childhood could play out in an environment of the client's own creation, without distortion.
- True or False: Freud included family members in his work with patients.
- False
- Should a client who is looking to face fears go to a family therapist or individual therapist?
- Individual therapist (If the issue is within the individual, although others can support change, the change needs to come from within the individual.)
- Family therapy is particularly useful for people whose family situation...
- cannot change (like a child who can't choose to leave her parents, a married couple that hopes to stay married, or with broader family feuds.)
- Rogers opted for individual therapy so that...
- the client's feelings are not subverted to gain another's approval.
- Individual therapists assume that...
- although family life shapes personality, these influences are internalized and the intrapsychic dynamics become the dominant forces controlling behavior.
- Changes made in family therapy last because...
- each and every family member changes and thus can exert synchronous change on each other (If nobody smokes anymore, it's harder to start smoking again.)
- Freud and Rogers both predicated that... (2 things)
- psychological problems arise from unhealthy interactions with others; this can best be alleviated in the private relationship between therapist and patient.
- A reason for blaming family sorrows on the personal failings of parents is...
- that it's hard for the average person to see past individual personalities to the structural patterns that make a family- system of interconnected lives governed by strict, but unspoken rules
- family members in therapy...
- talk NOT about actual experiences, but about reconstructed memories that resemble the original experiences only in certain ways
- Family therapy happens by...
- bringing men and women, parents and children, together to transform their interactions
- The problem with the term "dysfunctional family," according to Nichols, is that it...
- blames the parents rather than the structure of the family for creating problems
- Freud excluded the family from psychoanalysis because...
- he wanted his patients to feel safe and explore the full range of their thoughts and feelings
- We are defined and sustained by...
- a network of human relationships