FRHD 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Genogram, Family Therapy, Dysfunctional Family
22 Aug 2016
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?, theme/concern/issue, signi cant others, a we focus, the counsellor, or the cultural / environmental context focus on what is going on in the session. Principles of a family counsellor examine the subsystems and boundaries understand family organization diagnostic labels pathologies and do not provide understanding of the family goal of family therapy: change maladaptive family patterns, build alternative views and possibilities. Rst mention of treating psychiatric patients by including families in 1952 (christian midelfort) Bowen"s transgenerational theory in uence of family of origin family as naturally occurring system (not mechanistic) regulated by emotion human relations drive by need for separateness and connection. Role of professional control emotional reactivity better control behaviour coach people to change through resolving unresolved emotional attachments develop awareness of intergenerational patterns. Families dysfunctional families tend to be in extreme positions on a continuum healthy families achieve balance most common: enmeshed vs. disengagement chaos vs. rigidity e ective vs. complex communication.
