When looking at some of the causes of dysfunctional families and how to avoid become another family member my thoughts are establish clear boundaries with the fami.ly. One aspect of protecting the welfare of the people you work with in therapy is to avoid dual relationships, particularly relationships that are romantic or sexual in nature. It is not ethical for you to participate in romantic relationships with the people you treat in therapy (Good Therapy .org, 2013).
People are not born knowing how to set healthy boundaries; it is something that you learn throughout your lifetime. You must be conscientious of the boundaries you set as a therapist, even if you may have struggled with setting boundaries in your personal life or have codependent tendencies. (Good Therapy .org, 2013).
There is something else that may cause you to become another dysfunctional family member is allowing the different member to have you choose …show more content…
Murray Bowen (1913–90). It is a theory backed up by a growing body of empirical research.1 In recent years Bowen’s concept of ‘differentiation of self’ — which describes differing levels of maturity in relationships — has been shown by researchers to be related to important areas of well-being, including marital satisfaction, and the capacity to handle stress, make decisions and manage social anxiety (The Family Systems Institute).
The theoretical of approach to psychanalytic family theory is my choice because Bowen looks at the originally trained in Freud’s psychoanalysis but departed from this theory as he observed that human difficulties went beyond unresolved issues in the individual’s psyche and were, rather, embedded in each person’s family system — the focus of this book on relationship systems. I believe that most issues system from the communication or lack thereof and when addressing what happened in the family is beginning of the change process in the
People are not born knowing how to set healthy boundaries; it is something that you learn throughout your lifetime. You must be conscientious of the boundaries you set as a therapist, even if you may have struggled with setting boundaries in your personal life or have codependent tendencies. (Good Therapy .org, 2013).
There is something else that may cause you to become another dysfunctional family member is allowing the different member to have you choose …show more content…
Murray Bowen (1913–90). It is a theory backed up by a growing body of empirical research.1 In recent years Bowen’s concept of ‘differentiation of self’ — which describes differing levels of maturity in relationships — has been shown by researchers to be related to important areas of well-being, including marital satisfaction, and the capacity to handle stress, make decisions and manage social anxiety (The Family Systems Institute).
The theoretical of approach to psychanalytic family theory is my choice because Bowen looks at the originally trained in Freud’s psychoanalysis but departed from this theory as he observed that human difficulties went beyond unresolved issues in the individual’s psyche and were, rather, embedded in each person’s family system — the focus of this book on relationship systems. I believe that most issues system from the communication or lack thereof and when addressing what happened in the family is beginning of the change process in the