How to Coach Yourself and Others Coaching Families

Milan Systemic Family Therapy or “Long Brief Therapy”..........................................................152 Key Concepts: ...................................................................................................................................152 Therapy: ............................................................................................................................................152 Interventions:.....................................................................................................................................152 Assessment....................................................................................................................................153 Family Development through a systemic lens ..............................................................................154 The process of change...................................................................................................................155 Roadblocks to family developmental change ...............................................................................157 Interventions that create a context for developmental change. .....................................................157 Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................158 Response-based Family Therapy .......................................................................................................159 Therapeutic Methods.........................................................................................................................159 References .........................................................................................................................................160 Related Reading ................................................................................................................................160 Contextual Family Therapy Approach .............................................................................................161 The core of Contextual Approach rests on two postulates................................................................161 Four-Dimensional Interventions .......................................................................................................162 Facts ..............................................................................................................................................162 Individual Psychology...................................................................................................................162 Transactions ..................................................................................................................................163 Critics ................................................................................................................................................163 Entitlement ........................................................................................................................................164 References and Bibliography ............................................................................................................165 Narrative Family Therapy .................................................................................................................166 Contents.............................................................................................................................................166 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................166 Narrative therapy topics ....................................................................................................................167 Concept .........................................................................................................................................167 Narrative approaches.....................................................................................................................167 Common elements.........................................................................................................................168 Method ..........................................................................................................................................168 Outsider Witnesses........................................................................................................................168 Definitions.........................................................................................................................................170 The identified patient ....................................................................................................................170 Homeostasis (Balance)..................................................................................................................170 The extended family field. ............................................................................................................170 Differentiation ...............................................................................................................................170 Triangular relationships ................................................................................................................170 Multisystemic Therapy..................................................................................................................170 Calibration:....................................................................................................................................170 Family Life Cycle: ........................................................................................................................171 Centrifugal/centripetal: .................................................................................................................171 Circular (mutual, reciprocal) causality:.........................................................................................171 Open/Closed systems: ...................................................................................................................171 14

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