MFT Theory Cards

Deterministic – Bx of people is determined by unconscious motivation, biological & instinctual drivers, & psychosexual events during 1st 6 years of life

How the unconscious dynamics/motivations affect a person’s functioning

To resolve intrapsychic conflict

Anxiety develops out of conflict between the Id, Ego, & Superego, over the control of the available psychic energy.

• Primary instincts (largely unconscious)
• Pleasure Principle
• Develop at Birth

• Governs, controls, and regulates the personality.
• Reality Principle

• Judicial branch
• Person’s own Moral code
• Develop between age 4-6

a way of defending against a threatening impulse by expressing the opposite of it

the redirection of sexual energy into other channels

the process of taking in and assimilating another's values

expressions and discharge of repressed emotions

• Oral Stage (1st year of life)
• Anal Stage (1-3 years)
• Phallic Stage (4-6 years)
• Latency Stage (7-12 years)
• Genital Stage (12 & older)

• Salvador Minuchin
• Bravlio Montalvo
• Harry Aponte
• Charels Fishman

Directive, Change - Oriented, concenred with Sx in terms of family system's dynamics

• If you change the orgainization/structure, of the family, the Sx will be alleviated
• Here and now, directive, concrete treatment approach

• How the family relates to one another
• Alignments & Power Hierarchies

• Diffuse/Enmeshment
• Rigid/Disengagement

Inflexable Family Structure

• Restructure the family systems of transactional rules
• Establish Appropriate Boundaries
• Create an Effective Hierarchical Structure

• Interviewing
• enactment
• Review of the Presenting Problem
• Mapping

• Family Structure
• Flexibility
• Resonance: Sensistivity w/in the family
• IP role
• Ecological Context: extended family, church, school, etc.
• Developmental Stage

• Joining & Accommodation
• Relabeling & Reframing
• Enactments
• Boundarie Making
• Unbalancing
• Restructuring Techniques

• Virgina Satir
• John Banmen
• Jan Gerber
• Maria Gomori

Warm, genuine, congruent communication

• 1. People naturally tend towards positive growth
• 2. All people possess the resources for positive growth
• 3. Everyone person & every thing/situation impact & impated by everyone & everything else
• 4. Therapy is a process, whcih involves interactions between therapist & clt (each person responsible for himself)

innate drive that is fostered or not fostered as a result of communication & early experiences by parents

physical, intellectual, emotional, sensual, interactional, contextual, nutritional, spiritual

Clt's perception of his/her own body parts & the +/- feelings the clt attaches to them

development of separteness & clear identity as a result of being in touch with own feelings/values, communicate effectively

Everyone has the inborn potenial that is waiting to be fulfilled

Worldview that some people make rules & other's follow rules without question

Agreeing, serving, or succuming to another out of fear, dependency, self worth

Accusign or pointing the finger at one another because of loneliness & low self worth

Acting super reasonable/rational, due to underlying sense of vulnerability

Acting spontaneous, irrevelant, & avoiding feelings

Everything is congruent

resulting from a failure to fulfill one's potential for personal growth

• 1. Raise Self Esteem
• 2. Improve communication
• 3. Growth
• 4. Identify the family role & how they promote the Sx

• Family Life Chronology
• Family reconstruction (enactment)
• Analysis of the technique used by each member to handle "different-ness"
• Role Function Analysis
• Self Manifestation Analysis
• Model Analysis

Sculpting, family reconstruction, teaching/model effective communication, use of metaphors, use of drama, therapist use of self, art therapy, "I value you" statemnts, labeling assets

• 1. Family members can complete transaction, check, & ask
• 2. Can interpret hostility
• 3. They can see how others see them
• 4. They can see how they see themselves
• 5. One member can tell the other how he manifest himself
• 6. One can tell other what he hopes, fears, expects
• 7. When family can disagree
• 8. When family can make choices
• 9. When family learn from practice
• 10. When family free themselves from harmful effects of past models
• 11. When family can give clear messeges

• Maslow
• Allport
• Burgental
• Frankl
• May
• Murray
• Perls
• Rogers

• Here and Now
• Emphasizes free choice and self-awareness

• To be active
• Therapy provides a clt with new experiences in a relationship between separate & free being

• People are seen as not "sick."
• IP label is thrown out

Change occurs through the subjective experiences of therapy

• To increase awareness of how one choses to define life (assuming ownership)
• To affirm reality & explore how one may choose to deny "what is"
• To explore one's intentiality in the world
• To explore one's project and priorities in life
• To accept both +/- components of one's project, so that parts of the personality that are mostly out of awareness, can be reintergrated into the whole.

choosing to be unaware of an aspect of on'es experiences and at th sametime denying that one is unaware

One's basic goals and aim in life

a false belief regarding the relationship between two people, in which the concept of separateness and unique subjectivity of each individual is denied.