Therapist Use of Self and the Development of a Culturally-Aware Professional in Family Therapy

It has been well established that strong therapeutic alliances correlate with positive outcomes in the course of any therapy. For therapists who seek to enhance their professional development, the contribution of familial alliances to therapy necessitates information about their proclivities with different types of family systems. Since the early days of family therapy, the genogram has served as a tool for identifying family patterns, resources, and potential hindrances. More recently, genograms have aided trainees to better understand how cultural, gender and other biases and assumptions affect administration of therapy. In this manuscript, we introduce the theoretical framework of a new model where the family-of-origin forms an important resource for the professional development of the therapist in training.

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Marital physical violence suffered and committed by men: repeating family patterns?

Psico-USF ◽

10.1590/1413-82712017220109 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 99-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Aline Riboli Marasca ◽

Josiane Razera ◽

Henrique Juliano Rosa Pereira ◽

Denise Falcke

Keyword(s):

Family Relationships ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

Predictive Power ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Family Background ◽

Marital Violence ◽

Family Patterns ◽

The Family ◽

Conflict Tactics

Abstract Intending to contribute to the marital violence theme, this article has the objective to investigate the presence of physical violence suffered and committed by men in family relationships and the predictive power of family of origin experiences on this occurrence in a sample of 186 men. A sociodemographic questionnaire, Family Background Questionnaire (FBQ) and Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2) were used to collect the data. Physical violence suffered and committed by men established significant correlations with experiences of violence in the family of origin. The predictive factor for the occurrence was the experience of parental physical abuse in childhood. We discuss the relevance of a focus of attention on men also as victims of marital violence and the relevance of understanding the role of family of origin for the maintenance of violence in future relations.

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A Family Therapist’s Reaction to “the Influences of the Family of Origin on Career Development: A Review and Analysis”

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000004265963 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 569-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Charleen Alderfer

Keyword(s):

Family Therapy ◽

Career Development ◽

Family Structure ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

Career Choices ◽

Family Therapist ◽

Family Processes ◽

Cooperative Research ◽

Dysfunctional Family ◽

The Family

This reaction to Whiston and Keller is that of a family therapist with great respect for the amount of work the article represents. Two theories of family therapy, structural and Bowenian, are discussed with particular attention to the contributions each can make in understanding the influences of families on career choices. The functional and dysfunctional family processes and dynamics of each theory are considered. Examples of how either family structure might influence career choices are included. The need for cooperative research between family therapists and counselors is stressed.

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Virginia Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy: A Transpersonal Approach to Family Therapy

Integral Transpersonal Journal ◽

10.32031/itibte_itj_14-kk-ls4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (14) ◽

pp. 64-88

Author(s):

Kelly Kilrea ◽

Stéphanie Larrue

Keyword(s):

Family Therapy ◽

Transpersonal Psychology ◽

Family System ◽

Family Therapist ◽

The Self ◽

Use Of Self ◽

Virginia Satir ◽

Transpersonal Psychotherapy ◽

The Family

The work of Virginia Satir, a pioneer family therapist, is examined as a transpersonal approach to family therapy. Ways in which transpersonal perspectives may be applied in family therapy are explored in Satir’s notions of grounding and centering, the evolving and transcending concept of congruence using the Self/I AM concept in the Satir iceberg model, as well as the Satir conceptualization of the therapist’s use of self. Aspects of transpersonal psychotherapy relevant to the practice of family therapy are examined, including the creation of a transpersonal space of trust in order to strengthen the therapeutic alliance, going beyond meaning in working with the family system to apply transpersonal (e.g. nondual psychotherapeutic) approaches to the therapist’s use of self in therapy. A discussion of intersubjectivity and the role of the beingness of the family therapist in promoting transcendence, awareness, and healing for the family is included. Satir family therapy is consistent with transpersonal psychotherapeutic perspectives and is therefore recommended as a prospective family therapy modality for the transpersonally-oriented psychotherapist. KEYWORDS Satir, Family Therapy, Transpersonal Psychology, Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Transcendence, Consciousness, Transformation, Intersubjectivity, Nondual Psychotherapy.

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Life purpose and sibling care in adolescence: possible associations

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/1982-0275202138e200038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

Author(s):

Letícia Lovato DELLAZZANA-ZANON ◽

Cristian ZANON ◽

Jonathan Richard Henry TUDGE ◽

Lia Beatriz de Lucca FREITAS

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

Demographic Data ◽

Life Purpose ◽

Care Level ◽

Household Tasks ◽

The Family ◽

Sibling Care ◽

Areas Of Interest ◽

Life Projects

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the possible relations between sibling care level and the areas of interest in adolescents’ life purposes. Participants were 113 adolescents. The instruments were a record of socio-demographic data, the household tasks and Sibling Care Questionnaire, and a written testimony on life purpose. We identified 347 life projects, which were grouped into the following categories: career, family, possessions, happiness, and generosity. The results of the Pearson’s correlations indicated positive associations between sibling care and generosity and career. Thus, there is a tendency that adolescents who take care of their younger siblings have more life projects related to assisting the family of origin and to professional development. These results suggest that taking care of younger siblings may influence the areas of interest of adolescents’ life purposes.

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Grafika as hulpmiddel in die Pastorale gesprek

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v12i1.1029 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 54-63

Author(s):

J. C. Muller

Keyword(s):

Family Therapy ◽

Pastoral Care ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

Religious Community ◽

The Bible ◽

The Family ◽

Pastoral Counselling

Using graphics in pastoral counselling Three techniques of Family Therapy, namely the genogram, the ecomap and GFS (Graphic Family Sculpting), are discussed and presented as usable in pastoral care. The article argues that these techniques are most useful in pastoral care because of the fact that the religious community, as stressed in the Bible, consists of families and groups. A sensitivity for the family of origin and other systems which every individual represents, is therefore most important in pastoral counselling. The fact that a situation of growth and understanding is being created in the process of using these techniques, is probably the most promising aspect.

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Family Roles, Family Dysfunction, and Depressive Symptoms

The Family Journal ◽

10.1177/1066480720973418 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 106648072097341

Author(s):

Hanna Zagefka ◽

Joshua Jones ◽

Alara Caglar ◽

Ritu Girish ◽

Carly Matos

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Family Therapy ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

Family Dysfunction ◽

Family Roles ◽

The Family ◽

Lost Child

This work focuses on different roles individuals might adopt in their family of origin: hero, scapegoat, lost child, mascot, caretaker, and mastermind. It was explored whether family dysfunction in the family of origin makes it more likely that individuals will take on certain roles, in particular those of “scapegoat” and “lost child.” Further, it was tested whether the problematic roles of scapegoat and lost child are linked to greater depressive symptoms later on during adulthood. Support for these predictions was found in two correlational survey studies of young and older adults retrospectively reporting the roles they assumed in their family of origin ( N = 176 and 366, respectively). Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for family therapy.

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Using Creative Genograms in Family Social Work to Integrate Subjective and Objective Knowledge About the Family: A Participatory Study

Research on Social Work Practice ◽

10.1177/1049731521992843 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104973152199284

Author(s):

Ephrat Huss ◽

Erga Kapulnik

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Family Therapy ◽

Social Workers ◽

The Self ◽

Objective Knowledge ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Family Patterns ◽

Phenomenological Experience ◽

Social Art ◽

The Family

Genograms are widely used in family therapy as a way of visually mapping out systems and recurring family patterns. Creative genograms enable families to phenomenologically self-define recurring themes and issues, thus combining both historical, but also, experiential data on the same page. This participatory research gathers the self-defined, phenomenological experience of family social workers who experienced creative genograms firstly on themselves and then administered it with their clients: Examples are analyzed within the text. The findings point to the usefulness of including creative genograms in family social work contexts to intensify information, engagement, and stimulation and to re-perceive calcified problems through new visual terms. Challenges were the unfamiliarity of art language and fear of being “diagnosed” through art. Ways to overcome these challenges and to utilize the benefits were discussed. A theoretical understanding of social versus psychological art is outlined. The specific tool of the creative genogram enabled us not only to provide a clear directive tool for family social workers but also to demonstrate the ways that social art corresponds to and can enhance the aims of family social workers in more detail.

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Analyzing Stochastic Dependence of Cognitive Processes in Multidimensional Source Recognition

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000261 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 (5) ◽

pp. 402-415 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Thorsten Meiser

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Model Complexity ◽

Multinomial Model ◽

Stochastic Dependence ◽

New Model ◽

Multinomial Processing Tree ◽

Cognitive States ◽

The Family ◽

Tree Models ◽

Flexible Framework

Stochastic dependence among cognitive processes can be modeled in different ways, and the family of multinomial processing tree models provides a flexible framework for analyzing stochastic dependence among discrete cognitive states. This article presents a multinomial model of multidimensional source recognition that specifies stochastic dependence by a parameter for the joint retrieval of multiple source attributes together with parameters for stochastically independent retrieval. The new model is equivalent to a previous multinomial model of multidimensional source memory for a subset of the parameter space. An empirical application illustrates the advantages of the new multinomial model of joint source recognition. The new model allows for a direct comparison of joint source retrieval across conditions, it avoids statistical problems due to inflated confidence intervals and does not imply a conceptual imbalance between source dimensions. Model selection criteria that take model complexity into account corroborate the new model of joint source recognition.

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