PSY 480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Genogram, Nuclear Family, Substance Abuse

• School: University of Portland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 480
• Professor: Derek Boylen

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Focusing the counselling session exploring multiple perspectives. Reframe and reconstruct problems, concerns, issues and challenges. Discover new narratives and new ways to think about an issue. More completely involve family and cultural issues. Fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) the (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) or (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374) Focus on the client as being in relation. Clients focus on what the interviewer selects as a topic. Refocusing to early get it wrong diminishing their perspective and its significance. Is that how you think i see you: interviewer focus: how the counselor thinks and feels through the context of the session. Free form activity where the client uses their own style to present community. Helps the client generate a sense of connection and how we all develop in a community. Helps the therapist more completely understand the clients cultural background. Allows searching for positives within the community context. Select the community in which you were primarily raised. Choose significant symbols to represent key items in relation: yourself/client, families.