INTEGRATED METHODS

INTEGRATED METHODS

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1. What are some of the major assumptions embedded in family therapy? – 200 words –4 apa Academic References
2. Response on student work which is provided below for 100 words with 2 apa academic References–

Student work– What are some of the major assumptions embedded in family therapy?  

Hayes (1991) suggests that the assumptions embedded in family therapy are shared among the three schools of thought that she examined. That behaviour is determined by family, cultural and societal contexts. That families are self-regulating, organised and structured systems that respond to positive and negative feedback arrangements and that stability is maintained by structures and rules. They also agree that there is a circular causality that determine what is normal and that the focus should be place on the relationships with in the family system rather that pathologising the individual (Hayes, 1991; Coady, 1993).

Andreae (2011) suggests that family systems represent subsystems within the community and that there are some assumptions that can be made. One is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This would mean that we do not work in isolation. That to change one part of the system will see other parts change. This could be the butterfly effect in meso practice (Campbell, 2011). That families are always changing and that different roles are being assumed by its members over the lifespan. The child being care fore can become the carer of a parent that is aging. Families are generally open systems that give a receive information freely, but according to circumstances they can become closed or less open. Families can come together and exclude others after a tragedy. What can be seen as an individual dysfunction is often a response to relationship problems with in the family. Someone’s anxiety could be due to the behaviour of another family member, for instance the family of a drug user could be experiencing anxiety and depression themselves.

When there are problems within the family it is a symptom of the family not adjusting to the normal life cycle of the family. The hierarchy within the family could be that they are too rigid or inflexible, thus the disengaged or enmeshed family could make the solution the problem (Hayes, 1991). Coady does remind us that with family systems there is a tendency to overlook biologically based individual deficits which could include the child with autism. Coady also addresses the feminist perspective of victim blaming when the concept of circular causality is applied to domestic violence (1993).

Fortune and Reid claim that with the task-centred model there is an assumption that problems reflect a temporary breakdown in the coping mechanism of the family and can be rectified by tasks given to the family by the practitioner. When there is, for example, a coalition between family members that have crossed subsystem boundaries, a parent and child undermining the other parents discipline, tasks would be given that would strengthen parental alliance (Fortune and Reid, 2011. Hayes, 1991).

 

References

 

Andreae, D. (2011). General systems theory: Contributions to social work theory and practice. In Turner, F.J. (Ed) Social work treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches. (242-254) New York: Oxford University Press.

Loucks Campbell, S. (2011). Chaos theory and social work treatment. In Turner, F.J. (Ed) Social work treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches. (48-57) New York: Oxford University Press.

Coady, N. (1993). The argument for generalist social work practice with families versus family systems therapy. Canadian Social Work Review 10 (1), 27-42. Retrieved from http://ereadings.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:20631

Fortune, A. and Reid, W, (2011) Task-centered social work. In Turner, F.J (Ed) Social work treatment: Interlocking theoretical approaches. (pp. 513-532) New York: Oxford University Press.

Hayes, H. (1991). A re-introduction to family therapy clarification of three schools. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 12 (1), 27-43. Retrieved from http://ereadings.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:19346

 

 

 

 

 

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