CPSY 417 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clinical Trial, Reinforcement, Nuclear Family

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Counseling Psychology and Human Services
• Course: CPSY 417
• Professor: Bobby Ortega

Document Summary

Target child or identified patient less likely to be treated as individually, rather whole family is the client . Might include family therapy or simultaneous work with parents and child. Generic term for interdisciplinary study of self-regulating systems . Systems are greater than the sum of their parts. Open systems: systems that continuously interact with their environment/ecology. Looking at what is going on with their friends or family friends in their life. Interactions among members of a system are a dynamic process. Always changing, adapting to each other and environment. Property of system in which variables are regulated and so that internal conditions remain stable and constant. Positive feedback mechanisms: encourages deviation from system, moves system away from homeostasis. Negative feedback mechanism: reduces deviation from the system, maintains homeostasis. Process of achieving stability after breaking away from the norm (shifting back to homeostasis) Adaptive in short term as a stress-response.