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| The Family Systems Perspective |
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-family systems perspective holds that individuals are best understood through assessing the interactions between ad among family members
- when you affect one part of a system you affect all parts of the system |
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-often viewed as an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
Problematic behaviors– Serve a purpose for the family
-Are a function of the family’s inability to operate productively
-Are symptomatic patterns handed down across generations
A family– is an interactional unit and a change in one member effects all members |
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| Differences between Systematic and individual approaches |
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systematic therapists- do not deny the importance of the individual in the family system, but they believe an individual's systematic affiliations and interactions have power power
-by working with the whole family, or community, the therapist has a chances to observe how individuals act within the system, status quo, and how the systems influences individual, what interventions, |
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-first to notice that the development of children within the family constellation was heavily influenced by birth order
- phenomenologist, interpretations children assign to their birth positions that counted
-behavior was purposeful, children acted in patterns motivated by a desire to belong
-parents/children often become locked in repetitive parties involved |
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| Mulitgenerational Family Therapy |
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Murrary Bowen- mainstream developers of family therapy
-theoretical and clinical model that evolved from psychoanalytic principles and practices
-his approach operates on the function that predictable family members across generations
-symptoms can be understood by viewing the role of the family as an emotional unit |
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-a process in which triads result in a two-agaisnt one experience
-could easily happen between family members and the therapist |
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| Differentiation of the self |
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-the self involves both the psychological separation of intellect and emotion and independence of the self from others.
-process of individuation, individuals acquire a sense of self-identity
-differentiation form the family of origin enables them to accept personal responsibility for their thoughts, feelings and perceptions |
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| Human Validation Process Model |
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Virginia Satir- more nurturing
- discovered the power of family therapy, the importance of meta communication in family interaction, and the value of therapeutic validation in the process of change
-techniques were secondary to the relationship the therapist develops with the family.
-approach humanistic and experimental
-encouraged to take risks
-help transform unworkable rules to workable
- when stresses arise people adopt roles to adapt or represent an aspect
Triads can be nurturing and helpful
-client is responsible for change |
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| Experiential Family Therapy |
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-Carl Whitaker (experimental- symbolic approach)
-application of existential therapy to family systems
-stressed choice, freedom, self-determination, growth, and actualization
-stressed relationship between family, and the therapist
-did not propose a set of methods, rather it is the personal involvement of the therapist with the family that makes the difference
-techniques arise from the therapist's intuitive and spontaneous reactions to the present situation and are designed to increase client awareness
-family therapy was a way for therapist to be actively engaged in their own personal development |
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| Structural-Stratetgic Family Therapy |
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Salvador Minuchin
-an individual's symptoms are best understood from the vantage point of interactional patters within a family and that structural changes must occur in a family before an individual's symptoms an be reduced or eliminated
-limitations does not focus on exploration or interpretation of past, but the therapist joins the family to block stereotyped interactional patters, to reorganize family hierarchies or subsystems and facilitate the development of more flexible or useful transactions |
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| Structural-Stratetgic Family Therapy Goals |
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two fold:
1. reduce symptoms of dysfunction
2. bring about structural changes within the system by modifying the family's transactional rules and developing more appropriate boundaries |
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| structural-strategic approaches |
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| seek to reorganize dysfunctional or problematic structures in families; boundary setting, unbalancing, reframing, ordeals and enactments are all apart of family therapeutic process |
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views presenting problems as both real and metaphors for system functioning.
-emphasis is given to power, control, and hierarchies in families the importance of cultural embeddedness |
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feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodern social constructionism have all entered the family therapy field
- more collaborative, treating clients-individuals, couples or families as experts in their own lives.
-therapist is "not knowing" positions, socially active and aids clients in taking a stand against dominant culture that oppresses them |
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| Eight Lenses in Family Systems Therapy |
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1. the individual's internal family system
2. the teleological lens
3. sequences: tracking patterns of interaction
4. the organization lens
5.developmental lens
6. multicultural lens
7. gender lens
8. the process lens |
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| Individual's internal family system |
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| a lens that views the individual as an organismic system, complete with structure, organization, and subsystems. an individual has parts or dimensions to his/her personality and when they become polarized and extreme, individuals experience conflict. |
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final causes, goals, endpoints and purposes. This enables the family therapist to develop and understanding of what motivates individual behavior, the systematic purposes of symptoms , the goals of triangulation and uses of patterned interactions and routines.
-associated with Adlerian, Bowenian, structural and strategic approaches |
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| putting what is known into a new more useful perspective |
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| Sequences:tracking patterns of interaction |
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Level 1- occur between two or more family members who are face to face
Level 2- support the functioning of the family and become accepted as routines.
Level 3- the ebbs and flows of life- these longer sequences account for family adjustments to outside forces or developmental changes
-when level 1/3 effectively resolve difficulties the ebbs and flows that constitute the process of family change at level 3 and tend to find a functional balance
Level 40 transgenerational- sequences that reflect larger system values and rules about culture or gender roles- passed from generation to generation |
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organization manifest family rules, routines, rituals, and expected roles.
-Breunlin and colleagues replaced idea of hierarchy with the idea of leadership
-collaboration is found in mutual or egalitarian relationships between couples, and the function of leadership in the family is to organize the system in clear useful ways
-balanced leadership |
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Breunlin and associates
-focus of therapy is on whether individuals and families are achieving necessary levels of competence to facilitate growth and development
-Metaframework that reintegrates the individual development with developmental perspectives on the family and society.
five levels: biological, individual, subsystemic (relational) familial, and societal.
-each levels affects one another with no requirement of specific order for growth or development |
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-challenges the privilege of the dominant culture and introduces diversity and complexity into our understanding of the human condition.
-by reframing the dominant cultures as simply one of the many, an appreciation and valuing of diversity is fostered. |
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| 10 areas of assessment assist family therapists in bringing multicultural perspective to work |
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-membership as an immigrant in a dominant society
-level of economic privilege or poverty
-level of edu and process of learning
-ethnicity
-religion
-gender
-age
-race, discrimination, and oppression
-minority vs. majority status
-regional background
-these assessment areas produce phenomenological meaning that may be difficult for each member of a family as well as for the therapist. |
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-feminist impact on family therapy
-therapist have increasing accepted an advocacy stance as part of therapy
-do not ignore their personal influence and their responsibility to challenge unequal status and treatment of women |
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-process of communication to models of family therapy
-metacommunication- how we contextualize what we have to say.
-our movements through significant parts of our lives
-allows the therapist and the family to examine where they are in the flow of life, the process of change, and the experience of therapy |
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| Multilensed Process of therapy |
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-proposed by Breunlin and colleagues
-families are multilayered systems that both affect and are affected by the larger systems in which they are embedded.
-families can be described in terms of their individual members and the various roles they play, the relationships between the members and the sequential patterns of interactions |
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| 4 General movements in multilensed process of family therapy |
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1. forming a relationship
2. conducting an assessment
3.hypothesizing and sharing meaning
4. facilitate change |
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| Strengths from a diversity perspective |
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