Matching Pairs Family TherapyOnline version Please complete for mastery... by Sherwood Randolph 1 Covert Power 2 Nuclear Family 3 Prescribed Role 4 Family Life Cycle 5 Developmental Tasks 6 Perceived Role 7 Double Bind 8 Subsystems 9 System 10 Feminist Family Therapy 11 Enmeshment 12 Entropy 13 Gender Sensitive Family Therapy 14 Enacted Role 15 Feedback Loops 16 Executive Power 17 Epistemology 18 Task-specific power 19 Genogram 20 Homeostasis 21 Paradigm 22 Disengagement Cycles of interactions, that are used to exert influence over families and family members An organized, coexisting component within an overall system having its own autonomous functions as well as a specified role in the operation of the larger system; within families, a member can belong to a number of such units A therapeutic perspective, regardless of theoretical persuasion, that examines the impact of gender socialization on the outlooks, attitudes, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships of men and women A family composed of a husband, wife and their offspring, living together as a family unit The tendency of a system to go into disorder, and, if unimpeded, to reach a disorganized and undifferentiated state A schematic diagram of a family’s relationship system in the form of a genetic tree and usually including at least three generations Influenced by the expectations that others hold with regard to a social position Held by family members who, for example, enter into coalitions to challenge or circumvent executive or task-specific power The study of the origin, nature, and methods, as well as the limits, of knowledge; thus, a framework for describing and conceptualizing what is being observed and experienced The series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a family’s life, offering an organizing schema for viewing the family as a system proceeding through time A dynamic state of balance or equilibrium in a system or a tendency toward achieving and maintaining such a state in an effort to ensure a stable environment Expectation of self, relative to one’s social position Engagement in the behavior relative to a specific status or position Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at various stages of the life cycle, enabling movement to the next developmental stage Evident when member of the family make decisions about which other members conform or follow A form of collaborative, egalitarian, nonsexist intervention, applicable to both men and women, addressing family gender roles, patriarchal attitudes, and social and economic inequalities in male-female relationships A set of assumptions delimiting an area to be investigated scientifically and specifying the methods to be used to collect and interpret the forthcoming data The concentration of formal decision-making authority into the position of a broadly recognized leader or set of leaders Diffused boundaries Inappropriately rigid boundaries A set of interacting units or component parts that together make up a whole arrangement or organization The view that an individual who receives important contradictory injunctions at different levels of abstraction- about which he or she is unable to comment or escape- is in a no win, conflict-producing situation
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