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Experiential Family Therapy - Coggle Diagram
Experiential Family Therapy
Normal Family Development
Dysfunctional family resist awareness and limit emotional expressiveness
Open and spontaneous experiencing
Family members are secure and honest on their feelings to express them
Healthy family support individual growth of each member
Emotional encounter
Emotional Experience
Emphasized on individuals and their emotions
Here and now experience
Theoretical Formulations
Techniques aim to promote communication and interaction
Opening up individual to new experiences is needed to changing the family
Grew out of existential psychology
Developed and response to perceived limitations in psychoanalysis and behaviorism
Emphasized freedom and the immediacy of experience
Individual experienced is valued over family structure
Liberate affect and impulses to promote individual growth and cohesion
Family problems starts with emotional suppression
Dysfunctional families are not tolerant of emotions
Children grow estranged of themselves
Children suppress their emotional experience
Changed families by getting in touch of emotions ( Hope/desire/fears/anxiety)
Parents control children's feeling
Founder
Carl Whitaker
Obygyn and psychiatrist
Intuitive approach
Believe in Connecting Individuals and families
Viginia Satir
Stress the importance of good communication among family members
Died of cancer in 1998
Techniques of touch and sculpting
Highly nuturing,empathetic and genuine
Problem Development
Suppresing emotions robs family members flexibility and vitality
Quiet Depression - Satir
Feeling suppresses and impulses are denied
Destructive Communication
Placating - intended to make someone less angry or hostile.
Being irrelevant
Ultra reasonable - promoting inauthentic communication and root low self esteem
Blaming
Goals of therapy
Liberating the affect and impulses of family members
Revitalize family relationship through act more like themselves
Increase personal integrity ( Feelings and behaviors' are congruent)
Develop family together emotionally to develop a sense of belonging and freedom
Promote individual & family growth through experience/emotional expression
Techniques
Sculpting - Therapist ask a family member to physically arrange the family to represent family role, rules, perceptions
Family art drawing and conjoint therapy
Uses force of personalities, personal spontaneity and creativity
Role play - reenact scenes from past and present
Create personal therapeutic encounters by structured exercises and techniques
Psychology of the absurd - taking client statement to extreme : WHY DON'T YOU DIVORCE HIM ALREADY?
Assessment
Avoid characterizing people
seek understanding the defense that keep people from experiencing their emotions
Less attention to assessment
Therapist Role
Caring and accepting
Open and highly active
Does not hide behind professional role
Emotionally in touch with their experience
Genuine
Pay attention to countertranference
Today's Therapy
Internal Family System by Schwarts
Emotionally Focus Couples Therapy-Johnson (Attachment Theory 9 step )