<p>Many professionals associate family therapy with systems theory as its corresponding framework for conceptualizing presenting problems and guiding treatment. The main concepts of this approach include viewing family members as embedded in a web of interconnected relationships and understanding an individual’s symptoms as a reflection of a dysfunctional pattern of interactions within the family. As such, family therapists frequently assist clients by clarifying leadership and control in the family, ensuring a balance between closeness and autonomy among family members, helping the family adapt to life cycle changes and stresses, and teaching relevant skills (e.g., parenting techniques, communication enhancement).</p> <p>Against this backdrop, the consideration of the interplay between clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is an intriguing notion for family therapists. Although many clinicians who treat families use cognitive–behavioral interventions (Northey, 2002), it has not entirely entered into mainstream for this particular modality. Behavioral approaches, such as those involved in parent skills training, are well represented (cf. Gladding, 2011), but frameworks that truly balance the cognitive and the behavioral elements for assisting families have not been the subject of extensive writing or effectiveness research.</p> <p>Perhaps more so than any other psychologist, Frank Dattilio has expanded systems treatment by considering family
Addressing Thoughts in Family Therapy
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<p>Many professionals associate family therapy with systems theory as its corresponding framework for conceptualizing presenting problems and guiding treatment. The main concepts of this approach include viewing family members as embedded in a web of interconnected relationships and understanding an individual’s symptoms as a reflection of a dysfunctional pattern of interactions within the family. As such, family therapists frequently assist clients by clarifying leadership and control in the family, ensuring a balance between closeness and autonomy among family members, helping the family adapt to life cycle changes and stresses, and teaching relevant skills (e.g., parenting techniques, communication enhancement).</p> <p>Against this backdrop, the consideration of the interplay between clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is an intriguing notion for family therapists. Although many clinicians who treat families use cognitive–behavioral interventions (Northey, 2002), it has not entirely entered into mainstream for this particular modality. Behavioral approaches, such as those involved in parent skills training, are well represented (cf. Gladding, 2011), but frameworks that truly balance the cognitive and the behavioral elements for assisting families have not been the subject of extensive writing or effectiveness research.</p> <p>Perhaps more so than any other psychologist, Frank Dattilio has expanded systems treatment by considering familyPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Addressing Thoughts in Family Therapy
Meyers, Steven A.
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