Feminist Family Therapy Flashcards
The concept of Feminist Family Therapy began when _________ and was initiated by____________.
1978
Rachel Hare-Mustin
Feminist Therapists questioned Neutrality because
They felt that it was necessary to align with the repressed group. The felt that it was important to recognize and acknowledge the contribution of societal inequality and oppression.
Feminist Therapists questioned cybernetics due to
Cybernetics premise that the recursive nature of all of the parts resisting change. Feminists were concerned that because power in the family was different, then contribution to maintaining sameness in the family system was not equal. Those with more power were more responsible.
The feminists challenged circularity believing that the idea that both parents shared equal responsibility
ended up blaming the victim in cases of abuse, rape, incest endured by women
Feminist Family Therapy
is a political approach to therapy that aims to alter the patriarchal and hierarchical implications of many therapies and shift toward a more egalitarian relationship with clients.
Which therapy draws attention to issues of pwer and control in the system.
Feminist Family Therapy
Classify Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
in the experiential school; however, evidence based and therefore in the contemporary school.
The theorists responsible for EFT:
Susan Johnson
Leslie Greenberg
EFT focuses on reprocessing emotional responses
that organize attachment behaviors. Strong evidence base.
The two primary couples interactional patterns identified in EFT are:
pursuit - withdraw
blame - defend
Negative interactional cycles are thus maintained and fueled by secondary emotions
Identify 3 primary emotions
longing for connection
sadness
fear
Overview of EMF
Reprocess emotional responses that organize attachment behaviors by allowing couples to or create and experience secure attachments.
The EFT process
Create a safe atmosphere where individuals can access their primary emotions, establish emotional bonds, and disrupt the negative sequences. Partners have access to the other’s primary emotional experience and are better able to respond with empathy breaking cycles of negative interactons.
What is the change agent with EFT?
accessing primary emotions and expressing them to one’ partner primes new responses from the partner.
Explain the twin concepts of “looking within” and “looking between.”
What stage of therapy?
looking within examines how each partner constructs his/her emotional experience of relatedness
looking Between - exploring how partners engage each other and identify each individual’s role in the creation and maintenance of negative interactional patterns.
