Maudsley Family Therapy

Counseling children and adolescents can be both a rewarding and challenging experience. Dealing with the difficulties of confidentiality and also parental involvement can increase the complexity of working with this population. According to Section B of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014), counselors must take precautions to ensure the confidentiality of all client information, including both prospective and current clients. Confidentiality is not something that should be taken lightly the lives of…

In 2006, a pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy was developed (McLeod & Cooper 2007) which embraced the concept of pluralism, where a question was deemed as having multiple truths, rather than one specific answer (Cooper, 2015). It is rooted in a pluralistic viewpoint which advocates that mental health issues stem from a number of contributing factors and no one approach works best, but instead, clients need diverse approaches at different times. Pluralistic practice then…

If a client comes to me for counseling and she states she is a Christian, in her third year of undergraduate school, and then states she is struggling to choose a major because, “I am afraid that it may not be God’s will”, there are several steps I could take to help her through this crossroads. One is to give her a couple of surveys, one of which is can be Horton’s Decision-Making Survey, to see what factors are important to her because her indecision could come from stress and not being able…

In developing an understanding of both Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) and Narrative Therapy (NT), a shared emphasis on the importance of language, as the basis for implementing change within the lives of clients, can be seen as a commonality between the two therapy methods. Similarly, Herbert Goldenberg and Irene Goldenberg (2013), note the resemblance of narrative therapy to solution-based therapy in that each has the goal of assisting the client with developing an “alternative story” (p.…

Introduction Narrative therapy is a relatively new form of therapy and intervention within the field of psychology. It was first developed by Michael White, a late 20th century psychotherapist and David Epston of New Zealand. The two opened a family therapy practice in the 1980s and wrote a book called Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which marks the beginning of the creation of the concept of narrative therapy. Since the publication of their book in 1990, narrative therapy has been widely…

These problems are perceived as “saturated” by the client, who needs to deconstruct and “re-author” stories (Roscoe et al., 2011, p. 51) in a diversity context including class, gender, race and ability (Combs & Freedman, 2012). Stories in narrative therapy are conceptualized as events that are “selected out over other events as more important or true” (Morgan, 2002, p. 88). These events are privileged according to individuals’ vision of their…

alliance. In a study of common elements of developing better methods in couples therapy, Sean D. Davis, Jay L. Lebow, and Douglas H. Sprenkle (2012) found, “When the alliance is strong, it tends to amplify the effects of treatment. When it is weak, therapy often does not last long enough for interventions to take effect” (p.…

. Function of the therapeutic relationship. The purpose of a therapeutic relationship is to assist the individual in therapy to change his or her life for the better. Such a relationship is essential, as it is oftentimes the first setting in which the person receiving treatment shares intimate thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. regarding the issues in question. As such, it is very important that therapist provides a safe, open, and non-judgmental atmosphere where the affected individual can be at…

The second reference that will be summarized for this assignment is Peer Support: What Makes It Unique? Written by Shery Mead MSW and Cheryl MacNeil Ph.D. In this article, they describe peer support as a group of people who have like experiences that provide support to each other. These peer support programs can better relate to people with mental health issues and can offer the individual compassion and validation for their feelings. (Mead andMacNeil,2006) The peer in these groups, can share…

PROCESS OF THERAPY Beels identifies three stages of narrative therapy. First, through listening to the story of the problem, it is recast as an affliction of the client. To do this, the therapist and client concentrate on the effects rather than the causes of the problem. These efforts help in the process of externalizing the problem. Next, alternatives to the problem are explored, and an alternate story is created through focusing on unique outcomes or times when the problem was not manifest.…