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What is the difference between equifinality and equipotentiality?

Equifinality: Different initial circumstances can lead to the same outcome.
Equipotentiality: The same initial circumstance can lead to different outcomes.

What is the difference between homeostasis and morphostasis?

Homeostasis is the family’s current equilibrium and the processes that may resist change to preserve it. Maintaining balance.

Morphostasis is more broadly the system’s tendency to maintain its existing form or structure. Maintaining structure.

What is the difference between PTSD and acute stress disorder?

PTSD: symptoms persist for more than one month

Acute stress disorder: symptoms between three days and one month after stressor

Difference between a PTSD/Trauma disorder and adjustment disorder?

Adjustment disorder: client is adjusting to life, stressors, not trauma: job loss, divorce, financial struggles, Work or School stressors.

PTSD/trauma disorders: a traumatic event has happened that includes death, violence, assault

What MFT intervention can help clients identify multigenerational patterns, beliefs, roles, and relationships?

Genogram

What is Tarasoff?

Duty to protect identifiable victims when a client makes a serious threat of violence.

What is record retention?

Requirement to maintain records for a specific period

What is nonmaleficence?

Avoid causing harm