How to Coach Yourself and Others Coaching Families

theoretical perspective in favour of a clientcentred philosophical process. All people are born into a primary survival triad between themselves and their parents where they adopt survival stances to protect their self-worth from threats communicated Virginia Satir, John by words and behaviours of their family Communications Banmen, Jane Gerber, members. Experiential therapists are Approaches Maria Gomori interested in altering the overt and covert messages between family members that affect their body, mind and feelings in order to promote congruence and to validate each person’s inherent self-worth. Equality, Modeling Communication, Family Life Chronology, Family Sculpting, Metaphors, Family Reconstruction Families are built upon an unconscious network of implicit loyalties between parents and children that can be damaged when these “relational ethics” of fairness, trust, entitlement, mutuality and merit are breached. Rebalancing, Family Negotiations, Validation, Filial Debt Repayment Couples and families can develop rigid patterns of interaction based on powerful emotional experiences that hinder emotional engagement and trust. Treatment aims to enhance empathic capabilities of family members by exploring deep-seated habits and modifying emotional cues. Reflecting, Validation, Heightening, Reframing, Restructuring Carl Whitaker, David Kieth, Laura Roberto, Walter Kempler, John Warkentin, Thomas Malone, August Napier Stemming from Gestalt foundations, change and growth occurs through an existential encounter with a therapist who is intentionally “real” and authentic with clients without pretence, often in a playful and sometimes absurd way as a means to foster flexibility in the family and promote individuation. Battling, Constructive Anxiety, Redefining Symptoms, Affective Confrontation, CoTherapy, Humour Feminist Family Therapy Sandra Bern, Complications from social and political disparity between genders are identified as underlying causes of conflict within a family Demystifying, system. Therapists are encouraged to be aware of these influences in order to avoid Modelling, Equality, perpetuating hidden oppression, biases and Personal Accountability cultural stereotypes and to model an egalitarian perspective of healthy family relationships. Milan Systemic Family Therapy A practical attempt by the “Milan Group” to establish therapeutic techniques based on Luigi Boscolo, Gregory Bateson’s cybernetics that disrupts Hypothesizing, Circular Gianfranco Cecchin, unseen systemic patterns of control and Questioning, Neutrality, Mara Selvini Palazzoli, games between family members by Counter paradox Giuliana Prata challenging erroneous family beliefs and reworking the family’s linguistic assumptions. Contextual Therapy Ivan BöszörményiNagy Emotion-Focused Sue Johnson, Les Therapy Greenberg Experiential Family Therapy 281

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