Maudsley Family Therapy

A therapist’s Guide to Transforming Relationships” the authors talk about Traditional Behavioral Cognitive therapy and the key elements that it misses. TBCT put great emphasis on accommodation, compromise and collaboration. All of these things are helpful for couple’s therapy. The problem with TBCT is that it tends to “force feed” the couple collaboration. The couple is able to collaborate while in treatment but studies show that this collaboration…

the origins of it. The family systems theory allows for us to do just that (Hanson, 1997). As mentioned, Bowen 's Family System Theory can be applied to the world of nursing. To begin with, a family is complex but the nature of the relationships within the family can mirror ones of coworkers in a nursing unit. The spontaneous nature of humans as a whole coupled with interactions amongst this crowd of people creates the perfect breeding ground for stress (Hanson, 1997). A family is a system and…

authentic” (McLeod, 2015). In other words, be real to them and they will be real with you. Being a teenager myself, I know it is very important to have respect for others so they have respect for you. Some, on the other hand, do not get respect from family or friends so they do not respect the therapist or any authority figure. Being congruent with one another will help strengthen that relationship and allow the client to open up in ways they would have not done…

Considering my excitement about learning more about the techniques of play therapy, I was really pleased with reading the article Preparing to Play: A Qualitative Study of Graduate Students’ Reflections on Learning Play Therapy in n Elementary School. It is always nice to hear input and experiences from students on the same journey that I am on currently. Prior to reading this article, I remember times in my undergraduate career where we would go and volunteer at places like local schools, and…

An article published by John Gottman and Robert Levenson (1999), How Stable is Marital Interaction Over Time has been critically evaluated to complete the following background information for counseling couples. Summary: The article identified the lack of research in couples who are stable over time. The identified problem then becomes, how do stable couples interact over time? The purpose of the study in the general sense was to examine the couple’s expression of emotional patterns with one…

From my perspective, these threes have relations to my family because growing up my parents had rules, punishments, and rewards, which allow our behavior to change as we got older. The goal of behavior therapy is defined by the client and is limited to modifying the current behavior pattern (Becvar & Becvar, 2013). When I think of the postmodern approach, I defined the theory…

Strategic family therapy was developed with the contribution of Gregory Bateson, Jay Haley, Don Jackson, and many more. Strategic family therapy engages families and aims to alter their dynamic by engaging them in a creative behavioral task. Focus is put on present behaviors and presenting problems, rather than the past, thus insight is not the goal of this form of therapy. The concepts of strategic family therapy derived from concepts of communication, thus linked to one another. A double…

The success of a relationship requires that each partner understands the individual differences of the other. The characteristics of one partner’s personality may cause conflict in a relationship so therefore, understanding these aspects will more likely lead to conflict resolution. Two variables that may relate to each other are commitment and anxiety. Many scientists have attempted to identify a link between anxiety and relationship commitment and the link remains unclear. It is important to…

her family to experience one of their loved ones suffer through one of the most harsh mental illnesses. Rose’s loved to sing and be around music especially since her voice was “like mountain water in a silver pitcher, the clear blue beauty of it cools you and lifts you beyond your heat, beyond your body.” (87) But her music failed her in all the institutions she went…

Ethics to solve these ethical dilemmas. In this case, the case manager is faced with the ethical dilemma of reporting suspected child neglect. The Agency, Case manager, and Case A for-profit outpatient psychotherapy clinic that provides outpatient therapy to treat mental illness and substance abuse…