Lecture 3 reading notes - Systemic/Family Therapy approaches PDF

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Lecture 3 Reading Working systemically with families: formulation, intervention and evaluation - Book - by Arlene Vetere; Rudi Dallos - 2003 Read Chapter 1 ONLY 'What is family therapy and systemic practice'

From the intra-psychic to the trans-personal Clinical practice  The shift to relational thinking has givrn rise to two developments in clinical professional field: o A) practice as a qualified family therapist o B) and/or systemic practice while qualified in another mental health discipline Enduring ideas in systemic family therapy: a conceptual map of the evolution of ideas  Psychology, including clinical psychology, has arguably been fundamentally concerned with the individual and intra-psychic states.  In contrast, one of the most enduring ideas of Systemic Theory is that individual experience, including problems and pathology, is fundamentally interpersonal rather than individual.  Systemic family therapy has progressed through three phases: o Phase 1: systems theory and functional analysis  Types of therapy  Structural.  Strategic.  Brief Therapy.  Focus: Function of symptoms in the family.  Core concepts  Circular versus linear causality.  Dysfunctional patterns and structures.  Circularities (patterns of behaviour).  Family structures.  Power, inequalities and confusions.  Homeostasis.  Family rules.  Communication.  Key therapeutic approaches  Therapeutic tasks.  Altering patterns.  Disrupting circularities.  Reframing.  Altering structures.  Unbalancing.  Enactment. o Phase 2: constructivism  Types of therapy

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Milan. Family Construct Psychology. Brief Therapy/Solution-focused therapy.

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Patterns of beliefs in families. Levels of meanings. Communication. Observing systems. Hypothesizing.  Core concepts  Punctuation.  Reality as subjective.  Inter-locking beliefs.  Auto-poiesis.  Communication.  Key therapeutic approaches  Reframing.  Re-storying.  Co-construction of shared stories.  Circular questioning.  Positive connotation o Phase 3: social constructionism  Types of therapy  Feminist.  Narrative.  Post-Milan.  Focus: Role of language in shaping experience and actions.  Core concepts  Discourses.  Narratives.  Conversation.  Reflection.  Power (socially constructed).  Key therapeutic approaches  Re-storying.  Reflecting processes (teams).  Externalizing problems.  Interviewing the internalized other.  Writing o...