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Linda agrees to work with you for several months, and you will be using Gestalt procedures with her. 1. At some point you might work with Linda's feelings of anger and hurt toward her boyfriend. What Gestalt techniques can you think of to help her explore these feelings? What techniques could you use to work with her feelings of guilt over not having lived up to her parents' high expectations? What other Gestalt approaches might you use (with what expected outcomes) to explore with Linda her other feelings associated with being pregnant? 2. As you proceed with Linda, what importance will you place on her nonverbal communication? Can you think of examples of how Linda's body messages might contradict her words? Please include in your answer some of the following "gestalt" terminology: "why" questions, awareness, catastrophic expectations, dream work, empty chair technique, exaggeration exercise, figure-formation process, here-and- now experiencing, impasse or "stuck point," integration of polarities, internal dialogue exercise, introjection, making the rounds, playing the projection, projection screen, resistances to contact, reversal technique, staying with the feeling, the "now ethos," the dialogue experiment, the rehearsal experiment. Gestalt therapy focus on individuals understanding the context of their ongoing relationship with their environment. “Awareness, choice, and responsibility are cornerstones of practice. The initial goal is for clients to expand their awareness of what they are experiencing in the present moment. Through this awareness, change automatically occurs.” (Corey, 2017). I believe the first step with Linda is for her to explore her unfinished business with her boyfriend. When she informed her boyfriend she was pregnant he suggested the baby was not his and refused to marry her. The conversation was left unfinished. This leaves her with,

“feelings are not fully experienced in awareness, they linger in the background and are carried into present life in ways that interfere with effective contact with oneself and others: “These incomplete directions do seek completion and when they get powerful enough, the individual is beset with preoccupation, compulsive behavior, wariness, oppressive energy and much self-defeating behavior” (Polster & Polster, 1973,.” (Corey, 2017). This leaves Linda at an impasse, at a “suck point” in her relationship. The next approach I would take with Linda is the empty- chair approach. I believe this approach will help Linda in exploring what her boyfriend is feeling about the pregnancy, she will be able to view the conflict more fully (Corey, 2017). During this time “why” questions will be very important, why does he not want to get married, why did he suggest the baby was not his. Linda needs to explore her feeling on the initial shock of her boyfriend rejecting marriage and the anger she feels about him suggesting he may not be the father. She will also have to explore the idea of him being involved in the future. Abortion and adoption seems to not be an option for Linda, “she decided against it because she felt she could not deal with the guilt of terminating a life within her. The possibility of putting her child up for adoption was suggested to her. But she felt this to be totally unacceptable because she was sure she could not live knowing that she had created a life and then “abandoned” the child.” (Southern New Hampshire University, n.d). Future projection technique will help Linda in expressing her panic about the future with her pregnancy. “This technique, often associated with psychodrama, is designed to help clients express and clarify concerns they have about the future. These concerns may include wishes and hopes, dreaded fears of tomorrow, or goals that provide some direction to life.” (Corey, 2017). I believe this technique will also help her with her fear about not being able to stay with her parents with the baby. Linda will act either a version of how she hopes the

situation will unfold or a version with her fear of not staying with her parents. Finally, I believe the staying with the feeling approach will help Linda with her anger toward her boyfriend and panic about disappointing her parent. I believe once Linda learns how to stay with the feels then, we could bring her parents into the session. Body language with Linda will be super important in upstanding if what she is staying is how she actually feels especially when addressing if she wants to keep the baby. As therapy processes she could state she wants to keep the baby but, if she looks away or starts to fidget, this could be a sign that her feelings do not match what she is saying. This could indicate she is speaking from a “have to” place verses what she actually wants. Reference: Corey, Gerald. (2017). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. Cengage Learning: 10th Edition. https://ng.cengage.com/static/nb/ui/evo/index.html? snapshotId=3506046&id=1811976236&deployment Id=5476502500252548684113055545&eISBN=9781305 860704 Southern New Hampshire University. (n.d.) Case Vignette: Linda. https://learn.snhu.edu/d2l/lor/viewer/viewFile.d2lfile/1356443/ 18351,-1/ Select a dysfunctional family from a movie, television show, book, or other common media. Focus on one of the characters and answer the following questions:

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If you were to counsel this person from a systemic perspective, would you be inclined to work with his or her entire family? Why or why not? What are the themes that interest you the most in this case? Why? How would you proceed as a family therapist in an initial session if you saw the entire family? What issues would you want to discuss with this family at the first meeting? If you believed in the value of seeing the family as a unit for one or more sessions, how might you go about getting the entire family to come in? Assume that all agreed to attend one session. What would be your focus, and what would you most want to achieve in this family session? What are the key dynamics of the family as a system? What does the family atmosphere seem like? Do you see any aspects of yourself in this case? Can you identify with any of the family members? How do you think this similarity or dissimilarity would help or hinder you in working with this family? (Optional) If you can find a clip on the internet that provides the rest of the class with a glimpse into the family interactions, it would be extremely helpful. Please include in your answer some of the following "family systems" terminology: accommodating, family systems theory, boundary, functional family, coaching, fusion, closed family system, genogram, developmental lens, gender lens, detriangulation, identified patient, differentiation of self, joining, disengagement, meta frameworks, dysfunctional family, mistaken goals, emotional cutoff, multicultural lens, emotional divorce, multi-generational transmission process, enactment, multi-lensed family systems approach, enmeshment, nuclear family emotional system, organization lens, experiential therapy, open family system, paradoxical

directive, patriarchy, family atmosphere, personal priorities, family constellation, process lens, family dysfunction, family life chronology, reframing, family life cycle, restraining, family myths, sequencing, family of origin, strategic therapy, family projection process, structural therapy, family rules, triangle, family sculpting, triangulation, family structure, teleological lens. The first family that comes to my mind as a dysfunctional family in a tv show is, “Shameless”. The family is highly dysfunctional but, faces real-life problems such as, poverty, absence parents, unusual parenting styles, and addiction. The character I have chose to focus on is Debbie. “At the start of Showtime's popular comedy-drama Shameless, Debbie Gallagher was an incredibly sweet and intelligent young girl who seemed nothing like her derelict and morally-corrupt father, Frank; but over time, Debbie from Shameless changed.” (Dicarlo & Rath, 2023). At the beginning of the show Debbie does everything she can to help older sister Fiona to support the family in the absence of their parents. The first sign of the dysfunction getting to Debbie is when she states to wanting to have a baby. During season 1 at only 11 years old, Debbie kidnaps a baby with the assumption that being a teenage mom is easy. “Debbie never got over her desire to become a mom by any means necessary as she proved in later seasons. What's worse is that Debbie shows little remorse for taking Casey and is even angered by the prospect that he has to go back to his regular family.” (Dicarlo & Rath, 2023). Along with this obsession to be a young mother, Debbie shows signs of anger and destructive outburst. When her father breaks her school project she attacks him with a pillow filled with bars of soap. Another anger outburst happen at the pool when she is bullied by a girl, she attempts to drown the girl in the pool. She becomes friends with girls who are very sexually active and she wants to be too. She meets an older boy and lies about her age. When she reveals her age he only wants to be friends. Debbie then gets him drunk and rapes him in order to not be a virgin anymore. She then gets a boyfriend her age and lies about being on birth control in order to get pregnant. She has her first baby a 15. After she gives birth she has more anger outburst, fighting a women in a parking lot while holding her baby then, stalking the father of her babies wife later on to serve child support papers. Debbie also, starts to neglect her baby after she is born from dropping her during feeding, pawning her off to different people to do what she wanted to do. When her family was not willing to care for her child, she would have outburst towards them. She continued to have inappropriate relationships as she aged with older men and women. “Debbie would go out with friends to the bar or stay elsewhere for the night without much of a second though as to what her daughter was doing.” ( Argueta, 2023). The themes I would explore with Debbie is her manipulate, anger, and her inappropriate relationships. I believe this are the most important themes to consider with Debbie in order for her to grow as a person. I think it would be impossible to get the whole family to attend the session. They are all very much caught up in their own life and tend to not function as a unit. However, if they would all attend I believe the first session who revolve around exploring structural family therapy. The “central idea was that an individual’s symptoms are best understood from the vantage point of interactional patterns, or sequences, within a family.”(Corey, 2017). The family as a whole would have to change its structure before, individual issues in Debbie could be reduced or eliminated. The key dynamic of this family is toxic and manipulative behaviors. They do present a sense of loyalty to each other but, they are all still very much selfish. The lack boundaries with each other and the father is often coaching them to behavior with questionable morals. Reframing the family structure is essential.

I do not see aspects of myself in this case. I do not have similarities to the Gallagher family. I think the dissimilarities could hinder me from understanding and relating to the family dynamic. This is the clip I think best shows the Gallagher family dynamic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1nj4wQOydhk&feature=shareb References: Argueta, M. (2023, May 21). Shameless: Why Debbie is the worst Gallagher . MovieWeb. https://movieweb.com/shameless-debbie-worst-character/ Corey, Gerald. (2017). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. Cengage Learning: 10th Edition. https://ng.cengage.com/static/nb/ui/evo/index.html? snapshotId=3506046&id=1811976236&deploymentId=5476502500252548684113055 545&eISBN=9781305860704 Dicarlo, S., & Rath, K. (2023, July 1). Shameless: 20 things wrong with Debbie Gallagher we all choose to ignore. ScreenRant. https://screenrant.com/shameless-debbie-biggest-problems-fans-ignore/

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