AANN IINNTTRROODDUUCCTTIIOONN TTOO FFAAMMIILLYY TTHHEERRAAPPYY Tags: Family Therapy - Practical Guide – Manual – Theory – Summary - Course – counselling – counsellor Preface All information in this manual was collected for personal use from freely accessible sites on the internet, a lot of it was found in the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The same applies to all pictures used, which I downloaded from public domain sites. Since I feel many people will benefit and appreciate being allowed to get easy access to this kind of information ordered in short, easily accessible chapters, I decided to make it available for free to everybody. Should any of the authors of the borrowed texts feel that the present manual is not compatible with the way in which they planned to make their work available to the public, then I hereby invite them to contact me at [email protected] and let me know which part of the manual should be replaced by information from other sources. Please check on unibook.com or lulu.com for a printed version of this manual. 2 FFAAMMIILLYY TTHHEERRAAPPYY CONTENTS Family Therapy – Wikipedia 5 • 1 History and theoretical frameworks 6 • 2 Techniques 9 • 3 Publications • 4 Licensing and degrees 10 o 4.1 Values and ethics in family therapy • 5 Founders and key influences 11 • 6 Summary of Family Therapy Theories & Techniques • 7 Academic resources • 8 Professional Organizations • 9 See also • 10 References 19 • 11 External links Brief Strategic Family Therapy 21 Strategic Family Therapy – Kimberly Gail 23 Solution Focused Brief Therapy – Wikipedia 24 • 1 Basic Principles • 2 Questions • 3 Resources • 4 History of Solution Focused Brief Therapy • 5 Solution-Focused counselling • 6 Solution-Focused consulting • 7 References Brief (psycho-) Family Therapy – Wikipedia 29 Extended Family Therapy or Bowenian Family Systems Therapy I - Wikipedia 31 • Introduction 31 • Differentiation of Self 33 • Triangles 36 • The Nuclear Family Emotional Processes 38 • The Family Projection Process 41 • The Multigenerational Transmission Process 45 • Sibling Position 48 • Emotional Cutoff 50 • Societal Emotional Processes 52 • Normal Family Development 54 • Family Disorders 54 • Goals of Therapy 55 • Techniques • Family Therapy with One Person 3 Bowen’s Family Systems Therapy II 56 • More about triangles 62 Salvador Munichin’s Structural Family Therapy - I 66 Salvador Munichin’s Structural Family Therapy - I 68 Virginia Satir’s Humanistic Family Therapy 70 Behavourial & Conjoint Family Therapy 72 Milan Systemic Family Therapy or “Long Brief Therapy” 75 Response Based Therapy – Wikipedia 76 Narrative Family Therapy I - Wikipedia 78 Narrative Family Therapy II 83 Definitions 84 Basic Family Therapy Techniques 86 • Techniques for Information Gathering 87 • Joining 88 • Diagnosing 89 • Family System Strategies 89 • Intervention Techniques 90 • Communication Skill Building Techniques 95 Structure of a Family Therapy Session 96 Stages and steps of Problem Centred Systems Therapy - Can.Fam.Physician 97 A guideline for family assessment 97 Structure of Family Therapy 100 Systemic Family Therapy Manual 103 Basic Family Therapy Techniques in alphabetical order 153 Summary of Family Therapy Theories and Techniques 164 Family Therapy Survey 167 4 FFAAMMIILLYY TTHHEERRAAPPYY From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Family therapy , also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy , is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health. What the different schools of family therapy have in common is a belief that, regardless of the origin of the problem, and regardless of whether the clients consider it an "individual" or "family" issue, involving families in solutions is often beneficial. This involvement of families is commonly accomplished by their direct participation in the therapy session. The skills of the family therapist thus include the ability to influence conversations in a way that catalyzes the strengths, wisdom, and support of the wider system. In the field's early years, many clinicians defined the family in a narrow, traditional manner usually including parents and children. As the field has evolved, the concept of the family is more commonly defined in terms of strongly supportive, long-term roles and relationships between people who may or may not be related by blood or marriage. Family therapy has been used effectively in the full range of human dilemmas; there is no category of relationship or psychological problem that has not been addressed with this approach. The conceptual frameworks developed by family therapists, especially those of family systems theorists , have been applied to a wide range of human behaviour, including organizational dynamics and the study of greatness . Contents • 1 History and theoretical frameworks • 2 Techniques • 3 Publications • 4 Licensing and degrees o 4.1 Values and ethics in family therapy • 5 Founders and key influences • 6 Summary of Family Therapy Theories & Techniques • 7 Academic resources • 8 Professional Organizations • 9 See also • 10 References • 11 External links 5 HHiissttoorryy ooff MMaarriittaall TThheerraappyy Gurman, A. S. & Fraenkel, P. (2002). The history of couple therapy: A millennial review. Family Process, 41, 199-260. G&F point out that couples therapy (formerly marital therapy) has been largely neglected, even though family therapists do 1.5- 2 times as much couple work as multigenerational family work. They also note this is not such a bad ratio, as 40% of people coming to therapy attribute their problems to relationship issues. G&F define Four Phases in the History Couples Therapy: Phase I - 1930 to 1963 Atheoretical • 1929 to 1932 - Three marital clinics opened; they were service and education oriented, and saw mostly individuals • The closest thing to theory was what was borrowed from psychoanalytic - interlocking neurosis • 1931 the first marital therapy paper was published • Theory was marginalized due to a lack of brilliant theorists, and a lack of distinction from individual analysis Phase II - 1931 to 1966 Psychoanalytic Experimentation • Therapists are seen as telling truth from distortion, rather than creating a truth • Mostly individual sessions, but some conjoint; still treated like seeing two individual clients in the same room though • Some started to downplay the role of the therapist • Family was outshining couples work, and the couple techniques weren't innovative or particularly effective Phase III - 1963 to 1985 Family Therapy Incorporates • Family therapy overpowers couples, even though a number of big name people really mostly saw couples o Jackson Coined concepts like quid pro quo, homeostasis, and double bind for conjoint therapy o Satir Coined naming roles members played, fostered self-esteem and actualization, and saw the therapist as a nurturing teacher o Bowen Multigenerational theory approach, with differentiation, triangulation, and projection processes, with the therapist as an anxiety-lowering coach - societal projection process was the forerunner of our modern awareness of cultural differences Copied from the web. o Haley Power and control (or love and connection) were key. Avoided insight, emotional catharsis, conscious power plays. Saw system as more, and more important, than the sum of the parts Phase IV - 1986 to now Refining and Integrating • 1986 was the publication of G&K book • New Theories were tried and refined, like Behavioral Marital Therapy, Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy, and Insight-Oriented Marital Therapy. All four have received good empirical support. Couples therapy was used to treat depression, anxiety, and alcoholism. • Efforts were focused on preventing couples problems with programs like PREP • Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Modernism impacted the field • Eclectic integration, brief therapy, and sex therapy ideas were incorporated into our work Copied from the web. • http://www.psychpage.com/family/library/history_of_couples_therapy.html 6 History and theoretical frameworks Formal interventions with families to help individuals and families experiencing various kinds of problems have been a part of many cultures, probably throughout history. These interventions have sometimes involved formal procedures or rituals , and often included the extended family as well as non-kin members of the community (see for example Ho'oponopono ). Following the emergence of specialization in various societies, these interventions were often conducted by particular members of a community – for example, a chief , priest , physician , and so on - usually as an ancillary function. [1] Family therapy as a distinct professional practice within Western cultures can be argued to have had its origins in the social work movements of the 19th century in England and the United States .[1] As a branch of psychotherapy , its roots can be traced somewhat later to the early 20th century with the emergence of the child guidance movement and marriage counselling .[2] The formal development of family therapy dates to the 1940s and early 1950s with the founding in 1942 of the American Association of Marriage Counsellors (the precursor of the AAMFT ), and through the work of various independent clinicians and groups - in England ( John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic ), the US (John