An Introduction To Family Therapy – Rudi Dallos

There was considerable scope for reflection and talking about talk in terms of what aspects of the group felt safe. Synthesis Asen and Schuff go on to describe how through various subgroupings and feed- back processes, the members find themselves in different roles, speaking in differ- ent ways, experiencing themselves and being experienced by their families differently. It also seems evident from this approach that through activities, such as role-plays, enactments, use of genograms and family sculpts, that people are experiencing inputs at multiple sensory levels. For people who have had less expe- rience at placing their experiences and thoughts into verbal form, this variety of experience may be helpful.

Furthermore, it is likely that because the families are nearer to each other in their experience and abilities to communicate, they are more able to learn from each other than from therapists. In effect, they provide a scaffolding to build each other’s narratives, assisting each other to narrate aspects of their experience and to develop reflections on and integrate their lives. It is clear from Asen and Schuff’s account that the groups involved many layers of positive input.

Above all, it is clear that they conveyed a sense of safety in various ways: flexibility regarding the rules, an emphasis on reflecting about group processes and, importantly, the use of humour as a way of lightening the emotional atmosphere and that it was acceptable to use humour to draw back from difficult issues before returning to them when feeling confident to do so. Example Asen and Schuff (2006) offer some preliminary findings and reflections indicating that family members were very positive about the groups and that they found it good to discover ‘that we are not all alone in it .

. . we are in the same boat together’. The family members apparently helped to make adjustments to the group and decided after 15 months to continue on a fortnightly basis with just occasional support from the staff to hear how things were progressing. Cognitive behavioural family therapy (CBFT): conduct disorders These approaches have evolved in the USA and have a number of strands: one connection is the long-standing behavioural approach in couples therapy, and another is the focus on behavioural interventions with problems of anger and con- duct.

In the UK, the Improved Access to Psychotherapies (IAPT) initiative was started in 2005. The underyling rationale was that CBT has an evidence base for treating conditions such as depression and anxiety.

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