FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Afrocentrism, Genogram, Family Therapy
7 Oct 2017
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Focusing: what are other ways to tell these stories, avoiding oversimplification, restory to see the forest for the trees, organize thinking. List the names of family members for at least three generations: ages and dob, occupations, significant illnesses, and cause of death, substance use. Cultural/environmental/contextual issues: significant life events such as trauma or environmental issues (i. e. , divorce, economic depression, major illness). Use the basic listening sequence to draw out information, thoughts and feelings. A person is himself or herself in the context of relationships. The usual focus on a person"s feelings, thoughts, and internal struggles will not reveal the relationship forces that create distress or health. A relationship is governed by feedback, or circular causality, in which each person continually responds to the other in predictable ways that sustain patterns of interacting in the system. Problems originate in, and are perpetuated by relationship dynamics. Solutions can be found in changing relationship dynamics.
