🧠 CPCE Study Guide: Family Therapy Concepts (Jump Rope Edition)

Описание: Queens, let’s break this down so it sticks ✨.

Family therapy looks at the whole system—not just one person. Just like in double dutch, if one jumper stumbles, the rhythm is off for everyone.

🔄 General Systems Theory: Families are open systems. Homeostasis = keeping balance. The “identified patient” (the one blamed) is often just showing the family’s struggle.

📡 Cybernetics (Gregory Bateson): Think feedback loops. Negative feedback restores rhythm. Positive feedback disrupts or shifts patterns. Circular causality means everyone plays a role.

🔧 Therapeutic Techniques: Turmoil sparks change (like switching up your workout). Whitaker valued co-therapists for collaboration. Themes = spontaneity, self-esteem, and belonging.

🔁 Applications: Family therapy helps with scapegoating, crises, and systemic conflicts (like jump rope timing issues). Not ideal if family members are absent, unwilling, or if the issue isn’t family-related.

🪢 Memory Trick:

Bowen = Genogram (family map)

Minuchin = Structural (boundaries, enmeshment vs. disengagement)

Strategic = Directives, paradoxical interventions

Communication-Interaction = Relabeling, reframing

Contextual = Fairness, ethics, accountability

✅ Sample CPCE Q:
Which therapy highlights family patterns with genograms?
Answer: D. Bowen Family Systems Theory

Queens—study smart, not hard 👑✨. Think of family therapy like a jump rope team: it’s about rhythm, balance, and teamwork.

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