Narrative therapy expands and contracts family therapy's horizons
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The narrative phase of family therapy does not focus on family relationships like traditional therapies do. This is because the focus on families make them objects of pathology detecting and make them feel blamed, guilty and defensive. Narrative therapists take a strong stand against the functionalist elements of both family systems and psychoanalytic models that lead therapists to believe the problems are inherent in individuals or in families. Instead, they believe that culture is to be blamed for families' narrow and self-defeating views of themselves and the world.
Publication Name: The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0194-472X
Year: 1999
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Where is the family in narrative family therapy?
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A family therapist is concerned with the disappearance of the family approach in the systemic principles of narrative therapy. Theorists supporting the post modern theory and the solution-focused approach have put emphasis on individual human psychology, which limited their ears to hearing one voice in a family. The adoption of this approach may influence to family therapists' method of counselling to become one that does not reflect the reality of human experience.
Publication Name: The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0194-472X
Year: 1998
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THE IMPLICATION OF CLIENT SATISFACTION FEEDBCK FOR BEGINNING FAMILY THERAPISTS: BACK TO THE BASICS
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A family therapist describes a study where clients were allowed to provide feedback about their therapy sessions. Most evaluations of psychotherapy are based on the therapist's experience rather than the client's experience.
Publication Name: The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0194-472X
Year: 2000
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