Family therapy

Question 1

What name is associated with triangulation?

Answer 1

Differentiation

Question 2

What name is associated with disengagement?

Answer 2

Minuchin

Question 3

Per Bowen, when are family members least likely to become triangulated?

Answer 3

When they are highly differentiated

Question 4

In family therapy, what is joining?

Answer 4

It is taking steps to become a family inside by, among other things, assuming the same type of communication style, sharing personal stories, etc.

Question 5

What is mimesis?

Answer 5

The term used to describe adopting a family’s communication and affective style. It is one way of joining a family system and is used in structural family therapy.

Question 6

Whose name is associated with triangulation?

Answer 6

Minuchin

Question 7

Whose name is associated with structural family therapy?

Answer 7

Minuchin.

Question 8

What is triangulation?

Answer 8

When each parent demands that a child side with him or her against the other parent.

Question 9

If a family is triangulating, what is the therapist’s goal?

Answer 9

According to Minuchin, the therapist’s goal in this and other situations is to restructure the parent-child and spousal subsystems so they function correctly. This involves upsetting the system and blocking its normal way of functioning., such as prohibiting children from talking about symptomatic behavior with their parents, or rewarding the parents for nurturing and supporting each other.