Concise Guide to Marriage and Family Therapy - Original PDF
نویسندگان: Eva C. Ritvo, Ira D. Glick
خلاصه: DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY Family therapy is distinguished from other psychotherapies by its conceptual focus on the family system as a whole. In this view, ma- jor emphasis is placed on understanding how the system as a whole remains functional and on understanding individual behavior pat- terns as arising from, and inevitably feeding back into, the complex interactions within the family system. In other words, a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are seen as multidetermined and partly a product of significant interpersonal relationships. From the family systems perspective, alterations in the larger marital and family unit may therefore have positive consequences for the indi- vidual members as well as for the larger system. A major emphasis is generally placed on understanding and intervening in the family system’s current patterns of interaction, with usually only a second- ary interest in the origins and development of these interactions (de- pending on the model)