scholarly journals In Pursuit of Aesthetic Research Provocations

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Field ◽  
And Training ◽  
Family Therapy Research

In keeping with new narrative metaphors in the family therapy field and new epistemological approaches to clinical interaction, literature as a paradigm for qualitative inquiry and evaluation is discussed. Description of a research project that explores how fictional literature can be integrated into graduate programs reveals a multi-layered, aesthetic approach to family therapy research and training as well as the design of project-specific methodology (Chenail, 1992a).

An Eclectic View of the Family Therapy Field

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Thorana S. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Field

Family-Centered Practice in the Postmodern Era

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Laird
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Field ◽  
Family Centered

The postmodern movement has had a dramatic influence on the family therapy field and on social work, forcing a reexamination of long-held assumptions about assessment and intervention. The author explores how these ideas are being applied in the field of family therapy and the implications of this body of thought for social work practice.

Family Therapy: Critique from a Feminist Perspective

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Susan Penfold
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Family System ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Family ◽  
School Workplace ◽  
Family Therapy Research

Family therapy is a powerful modality which, all too often, is used without awareness of its possible constricting, or even crippling, effects. Textbooks and articles about family therapy focus soley or mainly on the family system alone, thus obscuring the influence of school, workplace, neighborhood, peer group, class, race and sex. Theorists, who are predominantly male, have developed rigid and mechanical concepts which encourage formulations encompassing the family system alone. Power inequalities between men and women are ignored and socially programmed sex roles are reflected and reinforced by theory and practice. Thus family therapy may function to locate and contain, within the family, difficulties and distress derived from stresses outside the family. The negative effects of traditional sex roles on emotional growth, sexuality and the development of mutually gratifying male-female relationships are never dealt with. As a result, family therapy may contribute to men's straitjacketing and women's oppression. To fulfill its promise, family therapy research and teaching must move beyond shortsighted and narrowly conceptualized theories which could damage, rather than heal, families who are suffering.

Family Therapy and Beyond: Where is the Milan Systemic Approach Today?

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Resilience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Current Position ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Field ◽  
Solution Focused

This paper reviews the current position of the Milan Approach in the family therapy field. Over the past 20 years this approach has made a major contribution to the development of family therapy theory and practice in the U.K. However, the ideas have been modified in order to fit different client groups in a range of settings; until today, the Milan, or Post-Milan approach is an amalgam of the original concepts and new techniques. This paper describes the development of this approach and highlights the following topics as central to current thinking: language, power, narrative, family resilience, externalising, focusing on change, and solution focused approaches. Several techniques of the Post-Milan approach are demonstrated in a discussion of one case treated by the author.

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