Comparison Chart of Models of Marriage & Family Therapy Experienti al Emotional Solution- Narrative Collaborati ve CBT Psycho- - Focused Focused educational * Alienation. * Negative interac * Clinical focus on * Co- construction. Dialogical ♦ conver Baseline. ♦ Maximize ♦ func Battle for ♦ tion cyde. solutions. * Flexibility and sation. Behavioral ♦ tioning and cop Structure. * Core Conflicts * Co- construction. creati vity * Languaging. exchange theory. ing ability of all Battle for ♦ Secondary ♦ reac De-emphasis ♦ on Language is ♦ all ♦ Multiversatile Classical ♦ condi family members. Initiative. tive emotions. history and important * Non- pathologiz- tioning. Establish ♦ collabo * Communication. * Primary pathology. emphasis on ing perspective. Cognitions. ♦ ration among Use of ♦ “crazi Emotions Deconstruct ♦ meanings. Philosophical ♦ * Discriminative family members. ness”. * Separateness- con- * Exception. * Dominant story. stance. stimulus (cue). Support ♦ * Creativity. nectedness Finding when ♦ the Hermeneutics. ♦ Postmodern ♦ * Extinction. Structure. ♦ * Experiential. Dependence- ♦ inde- problem is not a ♦ Objectification theory. Functions. ♦ Coping mecha ♦ * Family recon pendence. problem. Problem ♦ creates * Problem- deter Modeling. ♦ nisms. struction. Focus on ♦ future. the system. mined system. * Negative & posi Learning from ♦ * Growth thru * Problem and Re-authoring. ♦ Problem- ♦ organiz tive reinforce the family. immediate shared cause are con Subjugated ♦ story. ing and problem- ment Belief that ♦ the experience. structions of real * Symptoms are in dissolving system. * Operant condi family can help * Intergeneratio ity. the relationship, Socially ♦ con tioning. the patient themes. Scaling. ♦ not in the person. structed knowl Punishment. ♦ Self worth. ♦ * No absolute reali Beliefs about ♦ an edge. * Redprocal inhibi ty. Do not impose event are insepa Stuck system. ♦ tion. view of “normal”. rable from how it is experienced. ♦ Unique outcomes. ♦ You cannot know objective reality. ♦ Reciprocity. ♦ Successive approximation (shaping). ♦ Time-out Scapegoat ♦ pro Couples hide ♦ The meanings ♦ Family ♦ members’ * Problems are Maladaptive, ♦ Family has ♦ beea vides relief from their actual emo attributed to partidpation in maintained in symptomatic hurt by insensi anxiety. tions and exhibit behavior puts the problem. language by a behaviors are tive professionals. * Difficulty in toler defensive or limits on the ♦ Internalization problem- deter learned respons Need for ♦ informa ating interperson coercive emotions range of alterna the problem. mined system. es, involuntarily tion and educa al stress. leading to nega tives that can be Family unable ♦ to The view of ♦ the acquired and tion. Role and ♦ commu tive interactions. applied to the distinguish prob problem hampers reinforced. Learn ♦ different nication rigidity. solution. lem in “time”. any successful coping strategies. * Intolerance for Excessive ♦ focus means of resolu Anxiety and ♦ grief differences. on the problem tion. render the lamah Symptoms are ♦ and limited set of dysfunctional. nonverbal mes behaviors. sages. ♦ “Desperation” Helping the ♦ cou Generate ♦ solu Family ♦ members Generate new ♦ Modify spedfic ♦ With edncascc ♦ signals readiness ple to access their tions. realize partidpa meaning about behavior patterns. and attention to for change. actual emotions, Creative ♦ expan tion in the prob the problem. Rewarding ♦ family needs. Shared ♦ experi altering negative sion of solution lem. Family takes ♦ new appropriate, family members ence leads to interactional behaviors. Time is “col ♦ action to resolve adaptive behavior. may learn new growth. sequences, and Learn from ♦ lapsed ”. the problem. Change contin ♦ strategies to cope Creativity, ♦ spon enhancing the exceptions. Finding ♦ alterna gencies of social with the problem. taneity & play. emotional bond. tive solutions. reinforcement Change ideas ♦ about (leafing with paftrwt. Bowen Contextual Object Relations MRI Brief Strategic Haley Milan Systemic Structural Anxiety. ♦ * Destructive Projection ♦ of Communication ♦ Problems stem ♦ Family ♦ system is Alliances. ♦ ♦ Differentiation. entitlement internalized, theory (levels, from the dilemma constantly evolv * Boundarie * Emotional cutoff. Entitlement ♦ repressed ego rules & between love and ing. * Coalitions * Emotional system. Exoneration. ♦ objects. congruence). violence ♦ Hypothesizin * Disengage Family ♦ projection Justice / ♦ fairness. Internal ♦ objects First vs. ♦ second (Madanes). ♦ Circularity. * Detouir^g process. Ledger. ♦ built from experi order change. Clear rules ♦ should * Neutrality. 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