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Latino Families in Therapy Second Edition was published in 2014. Celia Jeas Falicov who is a clinical psychologist, author and currently teaching at the University of California in San Diego wrote the book. As the main contributor of the book Celia’s goal is to help others understand the importance of being competent when working with Latino Families and acknowledging that because the families come from a different background than those giving the interventions we must find therapeutic approaches that will benefit the Latino community. Falicov gives great insight to the different Latino communities that we could encounter and successful evidence based practices that can be used such as a meeting place for culture and therapy (MECA).
Stone writes about three essential functions of family stories– to pass on the family’s standards, to identify family characteristics, and coping strategies. The first of the three functions is the standards of the family since the family act as the “first culture,” teaching people what their family values and their opinions on certain situations like marriage and illness, mental or physical (Stone 384). The second factor is the family’s characteristics and their traits that bind them together, which act as the family member’s confidence boost (384). Furthermore, this boost makes them value themselves more than the next family, so that the family members contently remain together (384). The third factor is influencing how families cope; these “teaching stories” tell each family how to function outside of the family (385).
April Raintree, a twenty-four-year old Métis woman, tells the story of her and her younger sister Cheryl’s lives, as small children. With having to deal with self-destruction from alcohol abuse, homelessness and loss of identity. April and Cheryl are taken away from their parents and are put into different foster homes with different families, where they have different experiences. While Cheryl is encouraged to be proud of her Native ancestry and develops a strong and confident identity, April suffers abuse and discrimination against her Métis identity, which leads her to feel a deep shame of belonging to the Métis people and the wish to lead a ‘white’ life. As a grown-up, April tries her best to succeed in white society and
Such relationships are not only with family members, but with coworkers, friends, members of the community, and amongst members of various cultures. In Current Approaches in Drama Therapy, it is noted that “historical trauma can also have negative effects on cultural and national identity and self-esteem. Human beings are tribal in nature and have a need to feel good about the tribe to which they belong” (Johnson, et al., p. 145).
Accordingly to Corey (2010), narrative and constructivist theories “place a great deal of emphases on understanding group members’ unique realities (p. 99).” In other words, the combinations of both theories allow the therapist to start where members are. The narrative theoretical aspect can be used to recognize each teen’s natural competency, skills, and expertise that can help guide change in their lives. Rather than transforming the person, narrative therapy aims to transform the effects of the problem. This will allow members to be viewed as separate from their trauma, or problems, create some distance from the issues and this method will highlight what particular issues or similar concerns are aiding the group, rather than harming
Families, who encounter problems, whether it is in their marriage or a parental issue with a child, will pursue counseling as a way to help mend the broken family dynamic. If the family has a strong Christian belief system and worldview, they might feel more comfortable receiving therapy from a pastor in the church or from a therapist that will incorporate a Christian perspective into the therapeutic approach. The articles Counseling From The Christian Point Of View, Just What Is Christian Counseling Anyway?, and an interview with professor Chip Vining will show the different methods of a Christian approach and how to accommodate families who wish to have their counselor integrate faith as part of therapy. Chip Vining is a pastor as well
Mostly, these coping styles originate from the client’s childhood and is related to how the client’s caregiver responded to their needs. When the needs of the client go unmet as a child, it forces them to formulate a coping style to adapt to their caregiver’s responses. As a result, the child’s true experience of the situation is ignored and disregarded. Within the chapter, there is a breakdown of the different types of ineffective coping styles and how the therapist can use these coping styles to aid in treatment.
As indicated earlier, traditional therapy methods focused mostly on the individual. The system’s theory method includes the family. The Geno-grams provides framework that includes the family into the therapy process, and helps in indentifying the relationships between family members and the external environment (Cierpka & Sprenkle, 2005). In the case study, if Gustavo was to be focused on solely without including the family members, it would not be easy solve the problem.
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Research done by Diane Gehart of the California State University on mental health recovery has found that, family therapy approaches provide a complete and highly suitable foundation for recovery-oriented work, especially in areas related to social justice and stigma related to mental illness (Genhart, 2012). According to a study done at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Family-centered, strengths-based approaches reflect general principles that guide practices. Specifically, these approaches focus on the family rather than the individual as the unit of intervention, and emphasize strengths rather than deficits (Hinden, Biebel, Nicholson, Henry, & Katz-Leavy, 2006). Within this framework, treatment begins with a thorough assessment of the entire family, and the development of an intervention tailored to the family’s specific and unique culture, needs, and goals (Hinden, Biebel, Nicholson, Henry, & Katz-Leavy,
Though it has certain boundaries and limitations, a lot of times Marion may expect the therapist to act as the expert, instead of having to conduct the conversation themselves (Winslade & Cotter, 2002). For these reason, Narrative Therapy can be challenging especially if Marion will not be a good talker or not articulate. There are so many factors, but the only way the therapist can work well with Marion is to make her feel with an amazing self-confidence coupled with intellectual capacity and other narratives will be expressed properly. The therapist can also program some agenda for Marion to support a framework to her narrative to make her tell her stories easier. But the most important aspect of Narrative Therapy is to empower the client (Flaskas, 1999).
In mapping this communication, the eight principles measured by Brown may become apparent not only to the therapist, but for the first time, the family may be able to see just how their functions are impeding the balance of their family and condoning strong exhibitions of universal traits within particular family members. The Bowen family therapy approach is invested in the intergenerational processes that are prevalent between generations (Bohlinger, 2010). By increasing differentiation between family members and between the generations, if possible, giving each triangle meaning rather than repetitive opportunities at increasing anxiety (Bohlinger, 2010). Focusing on this historical perspective, the origin of the family and environmental factors that surround the progress of this family, the genogram focuses itself on growth and self-actualization as the ultimate goal for the intervention (Nichols,
There is little body of further research or broad use to compare to some of the major family therapy approaches. This lack of major continuation of contextual therapy may be due in part to Boszormanyi-Nagy’s focus on a search for common denominators of therapy as a whole rather than on specifically developing another school of family therapy. Yet the concept of relational ethics has been infused into much of the field of therapy as a whole with the movement toward social justice (Fowers & Wenger, 1997). Several studies over the years have used contextual therapy as the basis for intervention with immigration and acculturation stress (Flores-Ortiz & Bemal, 1989; Dutta, 2014), gay fathers (Rootes, 2013), difficulties of aging families (Anderson & Hargrave, 1990; Jones & Flickinger, 1987), incest within families (Lutz & Medway, 1984), and addiction (Flores-Ortiz et al., 1989; Olson & Gariti, 1993; Soyez, Tatrai, Broekaert, & Bracke,
The goal of first two sessions is to enhance the growth potential of the individual, the self-actualization. Therapy was set to integrate the needs of each individual family member for independent growth with the integrity of the family system (Satir & Baldwin, 1983). It also entails the installation of hope, helping the family and its individual members enter therapy to develop a positive feeling. Helping refocus the family off of the presenting problem or symptom and on to the strengths within the family. Like Satir’s growth-oriented approach, the intervention focuses on the transformation of the individual rather than an attempt to eliminate or extinguish