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| systemagazin Zeitschriftenarchiv: Journal of Family Therapy Heft 2/2008 |
| 1/2008 - 2/2008 - 3/2008 - 4/2008 - Übersicht Sluzki, Carlos E. (2008): "The Ancient Cult of Madame": when therapists trade curiosity for certainty. In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 117-128 abstract: An experience in which the author followed his own objectives rather than the patient's, leading to a tragic end, is evoked as a frame for the presentation and discussion of a family treatment where the therapeutic process led by the therapist may have exceeded the needs and expectation of the family members. This is followed by a discussion about potential problems caused by a therapist's fascination for family stories, since its effects may be epistemologically discontinuous from, if not contradictory to, Cecchin's recommendation for 'curiosity' as a central dictum of the therapist's stance. Byng-Hall, John (2008): The crucial roles of attachment in family therapy. In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 129-146 abstract: This paper's aim is to enable family therapists from whatever approach to address family attachments during their work. It explores the role of attachment in the family, and how to enable therapists to increase security in the family so that family members can solve their own problems during and after therapy. The article gives a brief overview of the nature of family attachment relationships and the influence of secure and insecure attachments within the family and their narrative styles. This is described in language that a therapist might readily hold in mind and share the ideas in dialogue with families. The paper discusses the interplay between insecure attachments and other family problems, such as parental conflict and disagreements over authority. It also discusses ways of establishing a secure therapeutic base and the influence of the therapist's own attachment style. The implications for family therapy practice are described and illustrated by work with a specific family. Byng-Hall, John (2008): The significance of children fulfilling parental roles: implications for family therapy. In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 147-162 abstract: This article describes how family therapists can routinely address the important, but often overlooked, issue of how some children may play parental roles in families. In some situations such as inadequate or absent parenting, a child is drawn into the parental subsystem and becomes identified as a "little parent" in a process known as parentification. As well as gaining competence in caring, this experience may also become destructive to children in a number of ways. This includes loss of childhood and, as children are unable to fulfil the parental role adequately, low self-esteem, depression and other symptoms. The concept of family attachment scripts is used to understand the implications of a child crossing adult/child boundaries which can lead to looking after parents and siblings. Family therapy techniques help to redress the role reversal and enable the parents to take appropriate responsibility in the family. Work also focuses on how to prevent transmission of parentification down the generations. Therapists have often been parental children. How this can influence their work is illustrated by a specific case. De Mol, Jan & Ann Buysse (2008): The phenomenology of children's influence on parents. In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 163-193 abstract: Starting from the core systemic premise that humans influence each other, this paper focuses on child influences in the bidirectional parent-child relationship. Following a co-constructionist approach on bidirectionality, meaning constructions of children and their parents concerning child influences are explored. The authors used in-depth interviews separately with children and their parents. Phenomenological analysis shows similarities and differences in children's and parents' thinking. Both stress the difficulty and existential dimension of the subject and refer to this influence as mainly unintentional. In particular, children disentangle influence from power. Children focus on the responsiveness of their parents. Parents emphasize the overwhelming effects on their personal development. The importance of making room for constructive child influences in family therapy is acknowledged. Escudero, Valentin, Myrna L. Friedlander, Nuria Varela & Alberto Abascal (2008): Observing the therapeutic alliance in family therapy: associations with participants' perceptions and therapeutic outcomes. In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 194-214 abstract: Positive and negative alliance-related behaviours of thirty-seven families seen in brief family therapy were rated from videotapes using the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances (Friedlander et al., 2006b). Positive associations were found between in-session behaviour and participants' perceptions of the alliance and improvement so far both early (session 3) and later in therapy (session 6). Binary logistic regression showed that successful outcomes (defined as consensus by therapist and all family members on general improvement and reduced problem severity) were significantly predicted by positive individual behaviour (Engagement in the Therapeutic Process, Emotional Connection with the Therapist, Safety within the Therapeutic System) in session 3 and productive within-family collaboration (Shared Sense of Purpose within the Family) in session 6. Shared Sense of Purpose was the alliance indicator most consistently associated with clients' and therapists' perceptions of therapeutic progress; moreover, it was the only alliance indicator to improve significantly over time in treatment. Macdonald, Alasdair J. (2008): Response to Rivett - Chapters in a book: putting solution-focused practice into context. A commentary on "Domestic violence: solution-focused practice with men and women who are violent". In: Journal of Family Therapy 30(2), S. 215-217 |
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