Case Study 2.3 UA: Anxiety
2.3 UA:Anxiety
Firstly, the therapists’ assumptions play a significant role in therapy, even before the therapist meets with the couple for the first time. I believe that my personal beliefs about problem formation will lead to me deciding whom to invite to the first session, whom to talk with first, and what types of questions to ask. Therefore, from the very beginning of therapy, one must enter the encounter with a specific viewpoint on how people operate, which leads to what they do (and do not do) in the therapy room. What the problems couples have is of great importance, and trying to help fix them is of greater importance, but understanding the context and the system is priceless.
When looking at Bowen’s family system’s one can clearly …show more content…
This can create tension, uncomfortablily and even conflict in the system, but in my oppinion it is needed when dealing with couples. From what I read in the case study, the mothers and doughter create together two sides in harmony and one side in conflict. In this case the husband is the one who is „the outsider/the left out“. They have joined forces in connecting and communicating. Therfore, if this is the case, two women intensely focusing on joining forces against a man, can trigger serious stress and rebellion in that man. (http://www.thebowencenter.org).
Even before going into therapy, the therapist must recognizes his or her place as an important triangle in relation to the family. The therapist must understand how important communication and connectivness is in this case and therefore, he must use his own knowledge and experience from his own family work to establish a neutral position from which he can be interested in how all family members communicate and …show more content…
Some people learn to communicate different than the others and this happens during their developmental stages. It could be that some learn to be more „explosive“ and some more „calm“ when arguing or even when communicating. This is not necessary a problem as long as couples understand and exept it. That is why the systematic thinking is so important when dealing with family therapy. The individuals, or couple is never enough when trying to counsel them. The therapist must look at the whole picture, and take into consideration the implications that: past generations, context, society, religion had on that certain
Firstly, the therapists’ assumptions play a significant role in therapy, even before the therapist meets with the couple for the first time. I believe that my personal beliefs about problem formation will lead to me deciding whom to invite to the first session, whom to talk with first, and what types of questions to ask. Therefore, from the very beginning of therapy, one must enter the encounter with a specific viewpoint on how people operate, which leads to what they do (and do not do) in the therapy room. What the problems couples have is of great importance, and trying to help fix them is of greater importance, but understanding the context and the system is priceless.
When looking at Bowen’s family system’s one can clearly …show more content…
This can create tension, uncomfortablily and even conflict in the system, but in my oppinion it is needed when dealing with couples. From what I read in the case study, the mothers and doughter create together two sides in harmony and one side in conflict. In this case the husband is the one who is „the outsider/the left out“. They have joined forces in connecting and communicating. Therfore, if this is the case, two women intensely focusing on joining forces against a man, can trigger serious stress and rebellion in that man. (http://www.thebowencenter.org).
Even before going into therapy, the therapist must recognizes his or her place as an important triangle in relation to the family. The therapist must understand how important communication and connectivness is in this case and therefore, he must use his own knowledge and experience from his own family work to establish a neutral position from which he can be interested in how all family members communicate and …show more content…
Some people learn to communicate different than the others and this happens during their developmental stages. It could be that some learn to be more „explosive“ and some more „calm“ when arguing or even when communicating. This is not necessary a problem as long as couples understand and exept it. That is why the systematic thinking is so important when dealing with family therapy. The individuals, or couple is never enough when trying to counsel them. The therapist must look at the whole picture, and take into consideration the implications that: past generations, context, society, religion had on that certain