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| systemagazin Zeitschriftenarchiv: Journal of Family Therapy Heft 3/2002 |
| 1/2002 - 2/2002 - 3/2002 - 4/2002 - Übersicht Lawrence, Hsin Yang & Veronica J. Pearson (2002): Understanding families in their own context: schizophrenia and structural family therapy in Beijing. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 233-257 abstract: Evidence from a number of family intervention strategies demonstrates a beneficial impact on the course of schizophrenia. It appears that different family interventions have generic features that aid the patient to avoid relapse and improve functioning. A significant challenge for researchers is to modify these generic strategies to be sensitive to different cultural groups in order to ensure their effectiveness. Chinese culture, with its distinct cultural norms governing family interaction and intense stigma towards the mentally ill, would seem to raise a particular challenge. This paper offers an account of an eclectic model of structural family therapy that incorporates psychoeducation and behavioural treatments for schizophrenia as a theoretical guide to working in a cross-cultural context. A Beijing family, consisting of parents and their daughter with schizophrenia, were seen for sixteen months during a trial of family intervention in China. Through structural family concepts, China‚Äôs sociocultural context of treatment resource constraints, population policy and stigma are examined and the impact of the illness on family organization is explored. Lee, Wai-Yung (2002): One therapist, four cultures: working with families in Greater China. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 258-275 abstract: Rather than addressing ethnicity through a pre-set cultural lens, I discuss how my experiences as a family therapy trainer in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Shanghai taught me to understand culture through the lens of the family. Similarities and differences among these cultural domains were reviewed. I also demonstrate how each encounter shaped my emotional responses and ways of intervention in the course of family interviews. Even though I belong to the same ethnic background, I had to interact differently in different arenas, despite my cultural values and theoretical orientation. Cooklin, Alan (2002): Therapist reflections: Context, culture and Chinese whispers: reflections from a novice. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 276-281 Erskine, Ruth (2002): Exposing racism, exploring race. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 282-297 abstract: Therapeutic practice cannot be neutral in the understanding of race. Living in a society that discriminates between the races affects the thoughts, feelings and experiences of all. By its emphasis on context, systemic practice offers a way to consider how social inequalities are reflected in personal dilemmas without perpetuating myths of black inferiority. A case example is used to illustrate a systemic approach which takes account of racial differences. The orientation is towards exposing the manifestations and effects of racism as well as exploring associated issues of racial identity. These ideas are linked to theoretical and research studies in related fields. A therapeutic stance of exposing racism and exploring race fits with current developments in family therapy and can be applied to the therapist's use of self. Guilfoyle, Michael (2002): Rhetorical processes in therapy: the bias for self-containment. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 298-316 abstract: This paper argues that therapy tends to reproduce a particular version of personhood, identified by Sampson's notion of the self-contained indi-vidual. The self-contained individual is a contemporary Western construction, which requires a denial of the interactive processes that permit its appearance and idealization. Focusing on constructionist therapies, it is argued that therapists use rhetorical strategies to more or less systematically argue for self-containment as a preferred way of being. These rhetorical manoeuvres render different aspects of self-containment plausible, practicable and 'real', while alternative versions of the self and behaviour are discursively minimized, becoming less plausible in the process. An analysis of two family therapy sessions is then used to illustrate these processes. It is suggested that therapy may reproduce Western ideals about being human. Snyder, Maryhelen (2002): Applications of Carl Rogers' theory and practice to couple and family therapy: a response to Harlene Anderson and David Bott. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 317-325 abstract: Recent articles by Harlene Anderson and David Bott in the Journal of Family Therapy (Volume 23) are a gratifying examination of the contribution of Carl Rogers' philosophy and practice to family therapy. However, in my view, an already existing highly effective application of Rogers' approach to couple and family therapy was omitted from Bott's review of the literature. My reading of the two articles has inspired the following response given in the spirit of dialogue with the hope of furthering a conversation on this subject. Bott, David (2002): Comment: Carl Rogers and postmodernism: continuing the conversation. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 326-329 abstract: This paper continues the conversation about the relationship between Carl Rogers and postmodernism initiated by Harlene Anderson and taken up by Maryhelen Snyder. The view adopted here is that postmodernism is undertheorized and there is a need to unravel definitions and concepts which arise from a conflation of social constructionism, post-structuralism and Rogers' existential humanism. It is argued that person-centred principles lie at he heart of therapy and should neither be neglected nor taken for granted. Lobatto, Wendy (2002): Talking to children about family therapy: a qualitative research study. In: Journal of Family Therapy 24(3), S. 330-343 abstract: In an exploratory study a number of children were interviewed some time after family therapy. Their responses were analysed using grounded theory methodology. Outcomes indicate that for children, family therapy is potentially a complex arena in which ambiguities and ambivalences are present. The children's position in the therapeutic session is discussed in terms of their role in the 'therapeutic circle'. |
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