Satir and the Communications Approach: Study for CA MFT Licensing Exam

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I am using these flashcards to study for the CA MFT Licensing Exams in 2011. This set is about Virginia Satir and her Family Therapy and Communications Approach.


 
  
Created May 23, 2011
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Virginia Satir
 
- Mother of Family Therapy- Known for Systemic Constellations, family roles and Virginia Satir...
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Premise of the Satir Change Model
 
- Improvement is always possible
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5 Stages of the Satir Change Model
 
1) Late Status Quo2) Resistance3) Chaos4) Integration5) New Status Quo
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What were key elements that Satir believed necessary in the therapeutic healing process?
 
- Caring- Acceptance- Love- Nurturance
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Satir's 5 styles of communication
 
1) Computer2) Blamer3) Distractor4) Placater5) Leveler
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The Blamer
 
Finds fault, name calls, and is ripe with criticism
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The Computer
 
Intellectualizes and shows little affect
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The Distractor
 
Brings up irrelevancies to take the focus away from the issue
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The Placator
 
Apologetic, tentative, and self-effacing (sometimes appears like a martyr)
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The Leveler
 
Engages in honest, direct, clear communication
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Some of Satir's techniques
 
- Family sculpting- Family maps- Ropes- Family Life Fact Chronology- Drama- Family reconstruction-...
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Family sculpting
 
Physically arranging the members of the family to represent the person’s symbolic view of ...
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Family maps
 
Like genograms are created over 3 generations. Mother’s family of origin, father’s, and...
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Ropes
 
The binds and pulls of ropes are used to provide concrete representations of family dynamics
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Family Life Fact Chronology
 
A complete family history is made extending from the birth of the oldest grandparents to the present
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Drama
 
Family members enact significant events in the family’s history, providing an opportunity...
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Family reconstruction
 
Like the drama, this enactment can involve events based on information but not direct experience
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Reframing
 
- A reinterpretation of a situation to create a shift in perceptions (from negative to positive)-...
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Verbalizing presuppositions
 
- The therapist overtly states presuppositions that are evident in a family’s behavior-...
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Denominalization
 
- The therapist has a family member provide specific behavioral descriptions for words such...
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Anchoring
 
- Serves to bring feelings to the level of interpersonal physical experience- i.e. Satir might...
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Coalition games
 
- 2 people agree and 3rd disagrees- Or 2 people disagree and 3rd agrees
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Lethal games
 
All agree with each other at the expense of personal/individual needs
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Rescue games
 
- 1 person blames and another defends the blamed- 1 person agrees, 1 person disagrees, 1 is...
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A Satirian therapist would be most concerned with facilitating a family's ___.
 
- Growth- Self-esteem- Healthy communication patterns
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Growth, vitality games
 
- Allow open expression by oneself and others- Flexible, not “locked into” one way of being

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