How to Coach Yourself and Others Coaching Families

Middle Sessions Checklist for Therapists Now you are nearing the end of the middle sessions of therapy: Have you continued to engage the family in the work together? Have you addressed problems in working together as they have arisen? Have you developed a circular description of the interactions and difficulties with which the family are struggling? Are you developing a clear idea about the strengths and resources the family are drawing upon? Are you working with the family to generate new solutions for the issues they are bringing? Have you begun to explore the family’s beliefs and ideas about the interactions and relationships in their family? Has there begun to be a shift in the interactions in which the family are engaged? Have you challenged the family’s beliefs about the issues that they are discussing? Have you worked with the family to open up new stories/explanations about the difficulties they are experiencing? Have you worked to reframe the difficulties or struggles that the family are experiencing? Have you introduced distance between the family and the difficulties or tried to externalise the difficulties? Have you tried to amplify the successes and change that the family achieved? Are you working with the family to try and increase the sense of mastery and control they feel they have over the difficulties? Have you reconsidered with the family if they are achieving change in the way they had hoped? Have you written to the referrer to inform them of the progress of therapy?  Appendix IV. 223

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