PSYC 4061 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Genogram, Strategic Family Therapy, Active Listening
1 Dec 2016
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Family counselling theories began to emerge in 1970s based on the idea that the individuals problems were reflective of the family dysfunctions; at this time the term dysfunctional family began to be integrated into popular are in vernacular. Family is a group of two or more persons related by birth marriage or adoption and residing together in a household. The definition of family itself is culturally dependent and within a western context constantly changing. Family therapy helps resolve the individuals in the family problems by re-realigning power imbalances changing dysfunctional dynamics facilitating interfamily communication and creating new alliances within the family structure. Family therapy is this psychotherapeutic technique for exploring and attempting to alleviate the current interlocking emotional problems within the family system by helping its members change the family dysfunctional transactional problems together. Homostasis the idea the families experience strong pressures to maintain their typical pattern of functioning.
