WEEK 5 REFLECTION FAMILY THEORY
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TIERRA HOYLE
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENCE
FAMILY THEORY & SERVICES
V.SUGGS
Skills required to focus on educational program for couples and/or families:
Listening skills: It refers to aural attention that also includes observation of client’s appearance and behavior. Audible demonstration that the therapist is listening and encouraging the client to continue in client exploration.
Being Attentive: The counsellor’s physical presence with the client helps give the client undivided attention, which can be demonstrated through nonverbal responses like eye contact, nodding and body language. This in turn helps in a client’s open conversation.
Asking Questions: Questioning the client allows counselors to learn more about their clients and set the tone for the counseling process.
Reflection: Reflection is the process of responding to the client’s feelings rather than the content of their statement. It is used in therapeutic settings to guide the client toward greater self-awareness and understanding.
Self-disclosure: This skill should be master's first, it can be used in certain limited
circumstances only and can be used for its benefits in the therapeutic advantages as it helps in building relations with the client.
Empathy: Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s place. True empathy requires the counselor to show a real understanding of the client’s situation and an appreciation of the complex feelings and behaviors it produces.
Unconditional Positive Regard: Unconditional positive regard is the demonstration of the counsellor’s acceptance of the clients for who they are. By expressing warmth and respect for the client, regardless of their words and actions, the counsellor can promote their own sense of self-worth and set them on the path to personal growth.
How client is taught these skills:
The clients are taught:
Empathizing with each other. It helps in changing the views of the relationship with each other.
Listening skills are taught as they help in improving overall communication. It also decreases dysfunctional emotional avoidance.
Unconditional positive regard teaches them to accept each other the way they are. To learn to accept the good and bads of an individual and try to rectify it.
It helps to identify the repetitive, negative interaction cycle as a pattern. To understand the source of reactive emotions that drives the pattern
Teaches them to expand and re-organize key emotional responses in the relationship
To facilitate a shift in partners' interaction to new patterns of interaction
To create new and positively bonding emotional events in the relationship
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It helps to foster a secure attachment between partners and other relations
To help maintain a sense of intimacy
Techniques to use in the couple/family educational program:
Strategic Therapy: Strategic therapy closely examines patterns of interaction and
conflict between family members and seeks to increase awareness and mindfulness of these patterns. A more direct approach than some other family therapy techniques, each individual family member is assigned work in order to improve how they interact with their other family members, particularly those who
may be facing unique challenges or struggling with mental or neurological illnesses or disorders. This therapy technique also subverts the authority of the most dominant family member, allowing communication changes to evolve positively between family members and the symptom sufferer.
Narrative Therapy: Narrative therapy helps individual family members to shape their personal narratives by recognizing and embracing individual positive qualities, skills, and gifts in order to help them constructively confront and conquer problems they may be facing within their family unit or within their own individual lives. Narrative therapy encourages patients to break free of the influence of negative or destructive influences that may undermine internal recognition and embrasure of one’s own value, capability, and competency.
Structural Therapy: Structural family therapy assesses power dynamics within the family unit and analyzes each family member’s assigned “role” within the family unit. Family hierarchies are examined and analyzed, and the amount of
power that each individual family member has is examined and, if necessary, redistributed. Structural therapy seeks to empower each family member and to individualize the needs of each one, in addition to establishing respect between all family members.
Skills or techniques I would choose not to include in the program:
Taking sides: It can come under from all angles. Even an ethical action can be construed in one family member’s eyes as made to target, expose, or hurt him or her. Counsellors must walk an exceptionally fine line here, especially when dealing with families, as counsellors are very often the ones who act as conduits to the interactions. An aggrieved family member could seize upon the faintest hint of taking sides and draw the counselor into dysfunction. It can be handled better by tactfully avoiding situations that could be seen as being manipulative.
Not forgetting to consider emotions in the dynamic of a relation: Anger and distrust among other emotions manifest in clear ways in a relationship. Even when family members attempt to conceal their emotions, they often give themselves up in the act. It is important to remember that how clients feel on the inside is not the full story of what affects their families. Behavior is often what needs to be addressed for families to improve functioning, not the feelings these actions result in.
REFERENCE
Nakagawa T (1977) Optimum preventive maintenance policies for repairable systems. IEEE Trans Reliab R-26:168–173.
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