Thinking about the three components of therapist resilience. What steps would you take if you found yourself struggling in any of these areas, as a family counselor? In which aspect(s) of therapist re
Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 1 Family Therapy: An Overview 8 th edition Goldenberg/Goldenberg © 2013 Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning The following slides follow a rough outline of each chapter in the text. We recommend that you use these as a skeleton outline for your lectures and amend them to fit your personal teaching style and pedagogical preferences. Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 2 Adopting a Family Relationship Framework • What Is a Family? • Family Systems: Fundamental Concepts • Enabling • Disabling • Today’s Families: A Pluralistic View Adopting a Family Relationship Framework • Family Structure • Basic characteristics • Interactive patterns • Family Narratives and Assumptions • Family Resiliency/Therapist Resiliency Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 3 Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 4 Adopting a Family Relationship Framework • Gender Roles and Gender Ideology • Men • Women Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 5 Adopting a Family Relationship Framework • Cultural Diversity and the Family • Ethnicity • Social Class • Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Class on Therapist Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 6 Adopting a Family Relationship Framework • The Family Therapy Perspective • Origins of family therapy • A paradigm shift • Cybernetics and Epistemology • First order • Second o rder/postmodernism Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 7 Family Development:Continuity and Change • The Family Life Cycle • Developmental tasks in each stage • The cautious approach to the family life cycle • Why? • The Framework • Stage theory • Transitions between stages Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 8 Family Development:
Continuity and Change • Developing a Life -Cycle Perspective • Developmental Tasks Family Development:
Continuity and Change • Life -Cycle Stages: Continuity and Change • Leaving home • Joining of families (partnership/marriage) • Families with young children • Families with adolescents • Launching children • Families in later life Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 9 Family Development:
Continuity and Change • Family Transitions and Symptomatic Behavior • Negotiations Among Members • Transition Points Through the Life Cycle • Stressors: Horizontal and Vertical Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 10 Family Development:
Continuity and Change Stages of Adulthood • Becoming an adult/Emerging adulthood • Middle adulthood • Late adulthood Stages of family development • Coupling/Preparing for parenthood • Creating a family • Beginning a family • Coping with Adolescence • Leaving home • Reorganizing generational boundaries • Retirement, illness, widowhood Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 11 Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 12 Family Development:
Continuity and Change • Developmental Sequences in Other Families • Single -parent -led families • Remarried and blended families • Gay and lesbian families Family Development:
Continuity and Change • Divorce • The decision to divorce • Planning the breakup of the system • Separation • The divorce • Post -Divorce Family • Single parent, custodial • Single parent, noncustodial Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 13
