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Virginia Satir
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 - Mother of Family Therapy - Known for Systemic Constellations, family roles and Virginia Satir Change Process Model - Cofounder of Palo Alto Mental Research Institute (MRI) - Experiential and systemic family therapist - 1916-1988 |
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Premise of the Satir Change Model
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- Improvement is always possible
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5 Stages of the Satir Change Model
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1) Late Status Quo
2) Resistance 3) Chaos 4) Integration 5) New Status Quo |
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What were key elements that Satir believed necessary in the therapeutic healing process?
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- Caring
- Acceptance - Love - Nurturance |
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Satir's 5 styles of communication
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1) Computer
2) Blamer 3) Distractor 4) Placater 5) Leveler |
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The Blamer
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Finds fault, name calls, and is ripe with criticism
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The Computer
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Intellectualizes and shows little affect
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The Distractor
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Brings up irrelevancies to take the
focus away from the issue
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The Placator
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Apologetic, tentative, and self-effacing (sometimes
appears like a martyr)
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The Leveler
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Engages in honest, direct, clear communication
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Some of Satir's techniques
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- Family sculpting
- Family maps - Ropes - Family Life Fact Chronology - Drama - Family reconstruction - Reframing - Humor - Verbalizing presuppositions - Denominalization - Anchoring |
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Family sculpting
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Physically arranging the members of the family to represent the person’s symbolic
view of family
relationships
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Family maps
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Like
genograms are created over 3 generations. Mother’s family
of origin, father’s, and current family
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Ropes
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The binds
and pulls of ropes are used to provide concrete representations of family
dynamics
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Family Life Fact Chronology
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A complete family
history is made extending from the birth of the oldest grandparents to the
present
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