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Family Therapy
Family Therapy
Family rules:
Family interactions follow certain persistent
patterns rules (Jackson, 1965)
Redundancy principle a family interacts in
repetitive behavioral sequences.
Rules may be
Descriptive - metaphors describing patterns of
interaction.
Prescriptive directing what can or cannot occur
between members.
General Systems Theory
Subsystems.
Grouping of family members that
come together to perform various
family functions.
Hierarchy
Carl Rogers
Disengagement