FMSC 431 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Structural Family Therapy, Family Therapy
27 Feb 2018
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The following are three prominent examples of approaches to couple and family therapy, which are widely practiced. For each model, basic concepts are described, and then representative methods are presented that are used to assess a family and intervene to help them with their problems. The three models represent a variety of approaches, in terms of how family problems and their causes are conceptualized, and how clinicians attempt to help families overcome them. In class we will examine how each model can be helpful in preventing or treating sources of family stress. There are other models that are practiced in the field and that can be helpful as well. Assumes family is competent and capable of solving their own problems. Assessment: observe how members arrange themselves, interaction patterns (subsystems, boundaries, triangles, listen for how family describes members" roles, create (cid:1688)enactments(cid:1689) in sessions to elicit family patterns.
