CYC 401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Structural Family Therapy, Murray Bowen, Family Therapy
2 Aug 2017
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The principal difference between family and individual counseling is that family counseling focuses on the family and its members" interactions and relations. Individual counseling tends to separate individuals and their problems from the family setting. Family counseling or family therapy, by contrast, almost always in- Involves interventions to alter the way an entire family system operates. How does general systems theory relate to families? family therapists view the family as a system in which each member has a significant influence on all other members. circular causality as a pattern. Counselors also need to consider the family life cycle. Haley (1973) provided a six-stage model of family transitions. Those stages are courtship, marriage, child-birth, middle marriage and child rearing, separation from adult children, and retirement and old age. Systems approach to family therapy: people are products of their interactions and family relationships must be taken into account, problem behavior in a person comes from the context of relationships.
