becvar and becvar family therapy a systemic approach Flashcards

2469975716	Cybernetics	• Focus is describing what is happening • Who are the members of the system • What are the characteristic patterns of interaction in this system • What are the rules of the system • What are the characteristic patterns of interaction in this system • What rules and roles form the boundaries of the system and distinguish it as separate from other systems • Define the degree of openness or closedness of these boundaries • Balance between stability and change • Focuses on present here and now • Focus on tendency to move either toward or away from order • Reality as operating according to principles of recursiveness and feedback/self-correction	0
2469975717	two basic elements of cybernetics	recursion and feedback loop	1
2469975718	recursion	reciprocal causality mutual interaction and mutual influence	2
2469975719	feed back	process where information about past behaviors is fed back into the system in a circular manner.	3
2469975720	feedback 2	is behavior and is thus all pervasive for we know nothing of our own behavior but the feedback effects of our own inputs	4
2469975721	Positive Feed back	Change has occurred and been accepted in the system	5
2469975722	negative feedback	No change has occurred the system remains the same. the status quo remain the same	6
2469975723	complimentary relationship	high frequency of opposite behavior ex passive wife aggressive husband	7
2469975724	epigensis	Theory that the features of an organism arise from interaction between genetic and environmental influence Erickson	8