This theory's keywords are: debts, ledger, and equity.
Structural
Cybernetics
Contextual
Strategic
Contextual: Ivan Bozormenyl-Nagy Salvador Minuchin John Bowlby( Ivan Bozormenyl-Nagy, Salvador Minuchin, John Bowlby ) described ethics as a uniquely human process of achieving an equitable balance of finances fairness attention( finances, fairness, attention ) among people.
Contextual: Two things we are looking for are - 1) ❌ - meets expectations 2) Trustworthiness - emotional response to reliability
Contextual: EQUITY means...
equality
fairness, based on needs
we're all in this together
Contextual: LOYALTY means...
will form an alliance with you against an outsider
commitment to align
getting coupons in the mail
Contextual: ❌ and ❌ provide the glue that holds families together.
Contextual: Generations Leaders Friends( Generations, Leaders, Friends ) are bound together by loyalties stories obligations( loyalties, stories, obligations ), even across time and distance. (this applies even to dead people)
Contextual: This model stresses the importance of parents to provide ______________ parenting.
trustworthy
fun
dynamic
Contextual: ❌ demands that the most ❌ people deserve the greatest consideration, AND that the one giving the consideration deserves ❌.
Contextual: All humans, by virtue of being born to parents, have a ___________ from their interactions with them.
stress load
legacy
personality
Contextual: What each person is inherently and fairly due, and what each accrues based on their behavior toward others is known as -
entitlements
inheritance
therapy
Contextual: If a person who is due an entitlement is not receiving it, there is now a ___________. (Parents are accruing things based on how they parent.)
debt
resentment
reward
The relative balance of debts and entitlements is called the _____________. It is kept in the subconscious.
open records request
file
ledger
Contextual: ❌ health depends on there being a balance between ❌ of debt to the family of origin, and ❌.
Goals of Contextual therapy:
Action
Insight
self-validation/fulfillment
fair accountability
The word "Contextual" refers to the total range of persons who are potentially affected enraged healed( affected, enraged, healed ) by the therapeutic effort (in the past, present, and future).
Contextual therapists pay close attention to the _____________ and ______________ context of the family.
social, political
emotional, educational
financial, racial
Contextual: 4 essential dimensions of individual and relational psychology that interact with one another
history
facts
psychology
transactions
relational ethics (especially important)
fiction
Contextual: ___________ are attributes that people are born with (gender, ethnicity, etc. + divorce, abuse, illness, etc.)
Facts
Psychology
Transactions
Relational ethics
Contextual: _____________ happens within the person.
Contextual _____________ correspond with the primary domain of the majority of family therapy models (e.g. hierarchy, triangulation, etc.).
Contextual: _____________ - people are ethically responsible for the effect of their behavior on others (this is the MOST salient feature of the contextual model).
Contextual: ________________ derives from a combination of internalized expectations, injunctions, and obligations in relation to one's family of origin, which exerts powerful influences.
Responsibility
Loyalty
Contextual: In healthy families, most of the giving and consideration justly proceeds from parent to child. This is known as equitable asymmetry.
Contextual: If parents engage in fair and ethical behavior, they earn _____________, which solidifies the child's loyalty commitment.
status
merit
money
a place in heaven
Contextual: ________________________ is children's inherent loyalty to their roots. They accrue debts to their parents, and repay them as they get older.
royal loyalty
filial loyalty
generational loyalty
Contextual: When not given what is owed, people will seek it out through harmful means.
Destructive entitlement
Theft
Immoral entitlement
Contextual: A revolving state of injustice is when the vicious cycle of injustice is stopped.
Contextual: Split filial loyalties are healthy.
Contextual: ❌ is toward trustworthy relationships, while ❌ is away from trustworthy relationships.
Contextual: ~HEALTHY ADULTS ~ ❌ adults are able to act on their ❌ to their parents and to contribute to the well-being of ❌, while ❌ to their own interests.
Contextual: ~ HEALTHY FAMILIES ~ "Well-functioning" is not about the presence or absence of ❌, per se. Rather, the ❌ balances and ❌ consideration of each family member for others.
Contextual: 6 GOALS of therapy ~
clients free themselves from damaging loyalties
take responsibility for their behavior toward others
discover the root causes of their behavior toward others
reclaim disowned parts of themselves
attend therapy forever
overcome irrational guilt
acknowledge justifiable guilt based on unethical acts toward others
retreat from conflict
make amends for their actions
Contextual: This is the idea that the therapist is responsible to everyone who will be affected by therapeutic interventions.
Multidirectional Partiality
Equitable Therapeutic Responsibility
Free the People
Contextual: Therapists should deescalate by having each partner speak directly to the therapist.
Contextual: _____________ - destructive entitlements may occur when parents exploit a child by expecting the child to be a mature adult
Parentification
Infantilization
Normalization
Contextual ____________ - parents prevent the child's growth
Contextual: This was a psychiatric social worker with Borozmenyl-Nagy, who developed the theory of INVISIBLE LOYALTY. This person came up with a lot of Contextual therapy terms.
George Meiner
Geraldine Spark
Gary Normanweld
Contextual: With ❌ roles, children are ❌ (successful, lazy, hot-headed) and are ethically bound to fulfill these roles, even as ❌. The therapeutic goal is to ❌, pay off debts, and ❌ themselves from ❌ obligations.
Contextual: Multi-Directed Partiality - therapist helps family see justification for each member's actions
