Describe how the structure of your family of origin reflects its racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and/or socioeconomic backgrounds. 1. Minuchin describes the self-as-the-therapist as the primary tool in therapy, referring to how you use yourself to create relational experiences—including conflict and con-tradiction—for families to respond to. Provide some examples of how you might do this. What types of relational experiences might be most difficult for […]

Have you ever experienced an attachment injury or potentially caused one for some-one else? At the time, did involved parties sense the event was creating significant damage, or was it not clear? Describe how it shifted the relationship, identifying dif-ferent behaviors, interactions, and emotions. Was it ever resolved?

Satir was recently named the fifth most influential psychotherapist by American thera-pists yet there is little formal research on her specific approach. Why do you think this is? Conversely, EFT is one of the best-researched approaches in the field. What might explain these differences?

Identify a personal characteristic of yours that has a strong systemic component (i.e., you are this way more in one relationship than another or has been exaggerated over the years due complementarity with a partner). • Does this characteristic feel like it is an inherent characteristic of “you” or does it feel “situational”? • Can you identify a characteristic of another person that seems “inherently […]

Describe your relationship with your parents and significant childhood caregivers? How did you know you were loved? Did you feel safe, physically and emotionally? How was conflict or disappointment handled? How was it resolved? Was there abuse or trauma? 1. Describe significant love relationships in your adulthood. Did you feel safe, cared for, and nurtured? Were there significant betrayals or other trauma? 2. Describe the […]

Does the idea of a family being a system with its own homeostasis resonate with you and your life experiences? 1. Describe a complementary relationship in your life. 2. Describe a double-bind situation in your life. 3. Describe the dynamics of your family of origin. What were the basic homeostatic be-haviors and roles for each person? When there was positive feedback, what were the forms […]

Ecosystemic structural therapy, intensive structural therapy, and FFT all emphasize the broader systems in which families are embedded. How might you go about assessing these systems, which can include school, neighborhood, work, court system, social services, etc.? 1. Describe the potential changes in family structure when an LGBTQ teen or young adult “comes out” and the family is accepting vs. rejecting vs. somewhere in between. […]

Social constructionists describe how we attribute meaning to events and things in our world. Provide an example from your life. 1. Social constructionists describe how societal discourses shape individual identity. Pro-vide an example from your life.

Satir’s family sculpting is particularly effective in bypassing client’s rational defenses because it involves minimal language and instead uses the visual representation of each person’s emotional experiences. In what types of situations and clients might this be especially appropriate or useful? 1. The two leading experiential approaches to family therapy were developed primarily by women. Why do you think this is? On what do you […]

Differentiation requires the ability to regulate your emotions and behaviors even when you feel threatened in a relationship and to clearly identify your contributions to the situation rather than blame others. Compare this concept to secure attachment. 1. One of the fundamental goals of Bowen intergenerational therapy is to reduce emo-tional reactivity in the relational system to enable members to take responsibility for their half […]

Describe an experience you have had with transference or countertransference, either in therapy or your personal life. Describe its effects on both parties and the relationship. 1. Looking at your family of origin, describe interlocking pathologies (Hint: Look for the most opposite personalities or defenses). Describe how they reinforced each oth-er’s behavior in negative interaction cycles.

What are your thoughts about the pros and cons of online therapy? For what situations or populations might it be a good option? For which clients might it be a bad choice? 1. What are your thoughts on therapists being able to refuse clients based on their per-sonal beliefs with the possibility that clients will experiences this as a significant aban-donment or even trauma?

What issues do you think will be the most challenging when maintaining confidential-ity with couples and families? How might you address that? 1. What do you think will be your personal challenge with working with a person who is having suicidal thoughts? With taking a child abuse report?

What considerations should a therapist focus on when using the Satir approach or EFT with men? Women? Children? Persons from collectivist cultures? Persons from individualist cultures? 1. Describe the similarities and differences between Satir’s survival stances and attach-ment theory. 2. In Phase 2 of EFT, therapists begin by reengaging the withdrawn partner rather than the pursuer because research has found this to be most effective. […]

In FFT, the relational function of the symptom is not challenged, only the means for achieving it. Describe racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic factors that may in-fluence the process of shifting the relational function for a given family. 1. Virtually all evidence approaches for adolescent conduct and substance abuse issues are family-based and rely primarily on structural and systemic—strategic therapy mod-els. What does that tell […]

Nagy describes mature love as occurring between two people who are conscious of the dynamics in the families of origin and are differentiated enough to not be driven by invisible loyalties rather than being fused with and reactive to their partners. What are your thoughts on his definition of mature love?

How do culture and gender play out in your family system? 1. How might the experience of being marginalized due to same-sex orientation affect a person’s boundaries with: • A partner? • A supportive family of origin? • A nonsupportive family of origin? • Supportive friends?

How would you define “competent” therapy and what specific behaviors do you associate with competency? 1. Describe why you think each of these are common threads to competency: diversity, research, law and ethics, and person-of-the-therapist. 2. What learning and study strategies works best for you? Based on the description in this text, what do you think is the best way for you to learn the […]

What would “joining the system” look like in your family of origin? 1. Are you ready to “trust the system” to reorganize itself in a way that is best for itself? Why or why not? 2. Where are you currently in the family life cycle? How are approaching the tasks of balancing independence and interdependence?

Karl Tomm’s system for identifying interpersonal includes healing and wellness pat-terns. How might this be a useful distinction in couple and family therapy? 1. Socioemotional relationship therapy is designed to enable couples to address power imbalances and create a more equitable relationship. What benefits and challenges do you see with this approach?

How might differentiation look different based on race, ethnicity, gender, socioeco-nomic status, level of education, and age? Do you believe differentiation is a concept that can or should be used with all populations? Who might it marginalize? 1. Describe an experience with triangulation in your life. What was your role in it, and how did it affect the primary dyad’s relationship?

Describe your parents’ relationship? Were they close? Did they regularly express affection for one another? Did they fight and if so how? Were they generally able to resolve their conflicts in a way that restored harmony and safety in the family? 1. When you were young, to whom did you turn to for comfort and nurturing? Was this source of comfort reliable?

Trace a problem interaction cycle in your life from “normal” through the rise in ten-sion and symptom and back to “normal” again. 1. How do cultural communities function as a system in a person’s life? 7. How do culture and gender play out in your family system?

A highly effective and efficient evidence-based treatment, EFT guides therapists to focus primarily on the quality of attachment and repair the sense of trust in the rela-tionship. Why do you think this focus on trust may be superior to other approaches?

How might a therapist create hope—one of the key common factors—for clients? 1. Why do you think the quality of therapeutic relationship might have more impact than specific techniques? 2. Do you think therapists should have to demonstrate their effectiveness? How do you think they should approach this? 3. What do you think about the emphasis on EBTs by third-party payers?

A.Consider the relational schema shown in Figure 8.8. a. Give a schema definition in SQL corresponding to the relational schema but using references to express foreign-key relationships. b. Write each of the following queries on the schema, using SQL. i. Find the company with the most employees. ii. Find the company with the smallest payroll. iii. Find those companies whose employees earn a higher salary, […]