PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Social Exchange Theory, Bipolar Disorder, Nonverbal Communication
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What it works on vs. who is in the room. A family going to therapy to deal with a divorce. A person going to therapy because she keeps blowing up at her kids. A mother and child go to therapy to deal with child"s substance abuse problem. A person goes to therapy to process abuse that happened when he was a kid. A couple goes to therapy to address the husband"s cheating behavior. A woman goes to therapy to deal with the verbal abuse from her boyfriend. Family was identified as the critical locus of the problem. Behavior of individual is interdependent and subject to mutual influences. Critical of approaches that seen the individual apart from the natural context. Rejected notion of biological causes of pathology. Ongoing exchanges between parts of the system and outside influences. Whole is more than the sum of its parts. Emphasis on behaviors making sense in a family context.
