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Ashlyn Holliday Dr. Joy McInvale Psychology of Counseling November 29, 2017 

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Family Systems Theory Murray Bowen o Helped us to develop concept of triangulation  When a family triangulates, there are subsystems Virginia Satir o Conjoint family therapy Carl Whitaker o Symbolism in family o Experimental and experiential approach Jay Haley o Father of strategic family theory  Families should look at different strategies o Cloe Madanes was his wife and they disagreed on family therapy o Families should own the strategies that they apply  Important to evaluate family strategies Salvador Minuchin o Came up with structural family therapy o Said the family is the matrix of identity o Wrote Psychosomatic Therapies, which considered three types of families  Eating disorders families  Alcoholic families  Asthmatic families The role of the family therapist o To join the family but not become a member o See themselves as teachers, models, coaches, and consultants o Concept of reframing  Technique that casts new light on a problem and provides a different interpretation for the problem  Attempting to get an individual to look at a problem differently and think about a different outcome or interpretation The systems perspective o Implies that individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family Genograms o A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family...