PSYC 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Superego Records, Psychodrama, Transactional Analysis
1 Nov 2016
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Chapter 15: family therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy. Influence of schizophrenia studies: identified pathologic families: communication by altering he way the system functions. General systems theory: the family is a system, a pathology is reduced: goals. Treat and view family as a whole. Important for therapist to learn the family"s idiosyncratic subculture. Therapist remains detached and does not favor certain family. Improve communication: characteristics and frame of reference members or factions. The client is the family- not a specific individual: approaches. Therapist as: relatively non-directive, resource provider, observer, teacher, communication, 5 forms. Deep down they are upset even though they say they are fine. The person who is avoiding any kind of logic and bringing up irrelevant information. Not on task with the topic of the session. Family meets with therapist in individual sessions. Focus on reinforcement contingencies and skills training.
