Lecture 2 Flashcards
Would you teach me who you are, and how I can work for you best.
Metcalf 2011 ( page 14)
Key skills to family therapy
Create safe space Understand family Identify patterns Disrupt and move forward Circular questions
Family therapy
Moves away from individual and works on system
Where does family therapy come from ?
Ideas from anthropology, communications, psychotherapy, social work, pyschiatry
Pioneers
Nathan Ackerman
Murray Bowen
Carl Whitaker
Salvador minunchin
Early research in family dynamics
Schizophrenia
Gregory Bateson - Jay Haley - Donald Deavilia Jackson John weakland
William fry
Started 59-6O’s Post war Focus on woman’s roles post war Early influence batesons double bind Notion of change in families
Double bind /
Competing communication, negation of the message, implied control,
Systemic thinking
Events occur in context
Attention focused on connections and relationships
Wholeness - independence, organisation, patterns