Family and Systems Therapy
Metacommunication
Negative feedback
Homeostasis
Complementarity
Increase the family's ability to solve everyday problems
Enhance each family member's ability to experience and express feelings
To improve the communication between each family member
Increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
Faulty communication
Overly rigid or overly permeable boundaries
A failure of complementarity
Insufficient quid pro quo
Enmeshed
Triangulated
Estranged
Joined
Bowenian therapy has received adequate research
Outcomes for couples and family therapy are similar to those of individual therapies
Most of the communication and strategic therapists have not been involved in systematic assessments of their Txs
System therapy has been tested on a variety of specific disorders and problems
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