PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Strategic Family Therapy, Psychoeducation, Psychodrama
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All individuals are born into some form of family (even if adopted) and that the family often determines how an individual understands or copes with events. Therapists began to realise that patients that were beginning to cope would go back to their families and just regress. Idea of identified patient who was manifesting troubled behaviour maintained by problematic transactions within the family or between the family and the outside world. Bateson viewed family as cybernetic system: regulatory systems that operate by feedback loops. In 1950s, idea of nuclear family: composed of husband wife and offspring two or more children, divided pretty much equally between genders: changes in the world have made this pretty much inaccurate now. Family: two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption residing in the same unit. Household: all people who occupy a housing unit regardless of relationships.
