Introduction to Family Counseling
A Case Study Approach
Judy F. Esposito, Abbi K. Hattem
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Introduction to Family Counseling
A Case Study Approach
Judy F. Esposito, Abbi K. Hattem
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"Engaging, Creative, and Practical"
- Lakitta D. Johnson, Jackson State University Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach presents basic knowledge about family counseling and applies various theoretical models to a case example looking at one nuclear family, along with its extended family members, that readers follow throughout the text. Judy Esposito and Abbi Hattem's multi-generational family is constructed from their experiences as professors and family therapists to exemplify the concepts and theories of family counseling. Beyond the theories of family counseling, students learn about the family life cycle and various tools for assessing families as well as the history of family counseling. Ethical issues relevant to family counseling are also included along with transcripts from hypothetical family counseling sessions throughout the book. In addition, the book focuses on working with diverse families and takes special care to emphasize multicultural issues.
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Part I Introduction to the Family
Chapter 1 The Manning-Kelly Family
Cast List
Presenting Problem
- A client family is far more than the symptoms and problems that bring the family to counseling, though these symptoms and problems are certainly important. Family members experience emotional, behavioral, and cognitive symptoms that they ascribe to their problems. And their symptoms are, at least in part, a product of these problems. However, just as someone who is depressed may also be a loving spouse and parent, a talented musician or computer programmer, and a valued member of her or his social network, so a family can produce very successful members while experiencing such misery in their interactions that they become depressed, abusive, or withdrawn. To ignore these other aspects, or strengths, of clients and their families dehumanizes them and limits the information available to the counselor and the scope of treatment.
- When a family counselor conflates the symptom or problem with the people in the family, a self-fulfilling prophecy may be created. In other words, the expectation that one or more family member(s) is/are the problem may emerge, further entrapping them in problematic behaviors. Alternatively, when strengths and resources the family already has are utilized to alter family functioning and reduce the symptoms, another, more positive self-fulfilling prophecy may result. Narrative family counselors (see Chapter 8) specifically focus on separating the family from its problem(s) so that the latter can be viewed more objectively and their meaning altered.