Notes from "Family-of-Origin Frames in Couples Therapy" Article

Family of Origin Frames in Couple Therapy

Uses 6 frames (reaction to family of origin) to help differentiate Marital Styles

• Coping – How you deal with anxiety, pressure
• Modeling – Models in your childhood (father, mother, other) whom you copy
• Role – Role you played in family of origin (scapegoat, helper, clown, etc.)
• Definition – Beliefs that define what you believe to be reality; myths
• Reversal – Things that you reject “I won’t EVER do that in my family!”
• Loyalty – Coalitions, triangles, and issues of loyalty or split-loyalty (divorce/remarriage, etc.)

Three marriage styles emerge:

• Pursuer/Distancer – Seeking intimacy vs. wanting space
• Overfunctioner/Underfunctioner – Taking responsibility, acting vs. not taking responsibility and passivity
• Blamer/Placaters  - Critical and demanding vs. Trying to please

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is for everyone who is going to be working later than their internal clock will allow them

WAKE UP!!!!!

Psychopathology Study Guide

Everyone check your emails- especially the one from Barry. Christina Gangan made a sign up sheet so that we can split up the SG! YAY!
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How to Carkhuff by Conan

I made this. thought it would be fun to give some comic relief! Not an actual picture of my family. we didn't smile. Just kidding.

Update on our Beloved Leah!!!

Hi all-

Just wanted to update all- Leah is feeling a bit better this morning. Keep praying for her as this can be quite frustrating physically as well as emotionally (especially at this time in the semester). You all are amazing! Praying for each of you :).

~ Betsy

Naturalism- Sire chapter

Just in case someone didn't get my email, here is a brief summary of the Sire book chapter on Naturalism


Sire- Chapter 4 Naturalism

- Naturalism is the middle ground between Deism and Theism, and is widely accepted today. God loses his very existence. Reason is the whole criterion for truth and not God. Important figures were Renee Descartes, John Locke, Julien offray de la mettrie.
“Prime reality is matter. Matter exists eternally and is all there is. God does not exist.”
“The cosmos exists as a uniformity of causes and effect in a closed system.”
“Human beings are complex machines; personality is an interrelation of chemical and physical properties we do not yet fully understand”- we are only part of the matter and are not above or below anything else in the world.
“Death is the extinction of personality and individuality”- people simply disappear when they die.
“Through our innate and autonomous human reason, including the methods of science, we can know the universe. The cosmos, including this world, is understood to be in its normal state”
“Ethics is related only to human beings”- We create ethics because we create and develop our futures. People have a sense of right and wrong.
History is a linear stream of events linked by cause and effect but without an overarching purpose”- The world is self-activating and sustaining.
Naturalism itself implies no particular core commitment on the part of any given naturalist. Rather core commitments are adopted unwittingly or chosen by individuals.
most significant form of naturalism in history was Marxism

Thanks!
Michelle