scholarly journals An overview of Family Therapies in Solution-Focused Therapy Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (18) ◽  

In traditional therapy methods, it is believed that the problem can be eliminated by exploring what is the giving rise to the problem. But there is no a such goal in solution-focused therapy (SFT). The SFT has a postmodern perspective and denies that there is a general passing objective reality for everyone. Accordingly, as in many therapy approaches with a phenomenological perspective, it focuses on how the existing problem is perceived by people. Many of the clients want quick and tactable output from the therapies. SFT emphasizes the adequate aspects of, strength within, and the possibilities available to clients rather than inadequacies, weaknessess and limited aspects with an aim to solve problems in shorter time periods. The therapist collaborates with the client, acknowledging that it is the best way to focus on the clients' existing strengths and resources. Although the emphasis is placed on the positive outcomes of this method on children, adolescents and adults, the main starting point is families. Having a problem in any of the members in the family can affect the whole family. Therefore, finding solutions to the problems of any of the family members will also positively affect the whole family. The most authentic aspect of the SFT is that the solution is found by the clients, not the therapist. This review focuses on how to apply solution-focused therapies with families / couples and research outcomes. Keywords Solution focused therapy, family theraphy, postmodern therapy approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
James C. Blair

The concept of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1951) has influenced many professions to refocus their treatment of clients from assessment outcomes to the person who uses the information from this assessment. The term adopted for use in the professions of Communication Sciences and Disorders and encouraged by The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is patient-centered care, with the goal of helping professions, like audiology, focus more centrally on the patient. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the principles used in a patient-centered therapy approach first described by de Shazer (1985) named Solution-Focused Therapy and how these principles might apply to the practice of audiology. The basic assumption behind this model is that people are the agents of change and the professional is there to help guide and enable clients to make the change the client wants to make. This model then is focused on solutions, not on the problems. It is postulated that by using the assumptions in this model audiologists will be more effective in a shorter time than current practice may allow.


2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Stoddart ◽  
Janet McDonnell ◽  
Valerie Temple ◽  
Alina Mustata

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muskinul Fuad

The education system in Indonesia emphasize on academic intelligence, whichincludes only two or three aspects, more than on the other aspects of intelligence. For thatreason, many children who are not good at academic intelligence, but have good potentials inother aspects of intelligence, do not develop optimally. They are often considered and labeledas "stupid children" by the existing system. This phenomenon is on the contrary to the theoryof multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner, who argues that intelligence is theability to solve various problems in life and produce products or services that are useful invarious aspects of life.Human intelligence is a combination of various general and specific abilities. Thistheory is different from the concept of IQ (intelligence quotient) that involves only languageskills, mathematical, and spatial logics. According to Gardner, there are nine aspects ofintelligence and its potential indicators to be developed by each child born without a braindefect. What Gardner suggested can be considered as a starting point to a perspective thatevery child has a unique individual intelligence. Parents have to treat and educate theirchildren proportionally and equitably. This treatment will lead to a pattern of education that isfriendly to the brain and to the plurality of children’s potential.More than the above points, the notion that multiple intelligences do not just comefrom the brain needs to be followed. Humans actually have different immaterial (spiritual)aspects that do not refer to brain functions. The belief in spiritual aspects and its potentialsmeans that human beings have various capacities and they differ from physical capacities.This is what needs to be addressed from the perspective of education today. The philosophyand perspective on education of the educators, education stakeholders, and especially parents,are the first major issue to be addressed. With this step, every educational activity andcommunication within the family is expected to develop every aspect of children'sintelligence, especially the spiritual intelligence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (44) ◽  
pp. E9308-E9317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghna Kannan ◽  
Efil Bayam ◽  
Christel Wagner ◽  
Bruno Rinaldi ◽  
Perrine F. Kretz ◽  
...  

The family of WD40-repeat (WDR) proteins is one of the largest in eukaryotes, but little is known about their function in brain development. Among 26 WDR genes assessed, we found 7 displaying a major impact in neuronal morphology when inactivated in mice. Remarkably, all seven genes showed corpus callosum defects, including thicker (Atg16l1, Coro1c, Dmxl2, and Herc1), thinner (Kif21b and Wdr89), or absent corpus callosum (Wdr47), revealing a common role for WDR genes in brain connectivity. We focused on the poorly studied WDR47 protein sharing structural homology with LIS1, which causes lissencephaly. In a dosage-dependent manner, mice lacking Wdr47 showed lethality, extensive fiber defects, microcephaly, thinner cortices, and sensory motor gating abnormalities. We showed that WDR47 shares functional characteristics with LIS1 and participates in key microtubule-mediated processes, including neural stem cell proliferation, radial migration, and growth cone dynamics. In absence of WDR47, the exhaustion of late cortical progenitors and the consequent decrease of neurogenesis together with the impaired survival of late-born neurons are likely yielding to the worsening of the microcephaly phenotype postnatally. Interestingly, the WDR47-specific C-terminal to LisH (CTLH) domain was associated with functions in autophagy described in mammals. Silencing WDR47 in hypothalamic GT1-7 neuronal cells and yeast models independently recapitulated these findings, showing conserved mechanisms. Finally, our data identified superior cervical ganglion-10 (SCG10) as an interacting partner of WDR47. Taken together, these results provide a starting point for studying the implications of WDR proteins in neuronal regulation of microtubules and autophagy.


1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Franklin

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