Pam is a 32-year-old woman who lives at home with her parents, Adrian and Judy, and doesn’t have many friends. She clearly has some sort of developmental disability, but Adrian and Judy don’t understand why Pam is so angry and uncommunicative. In fact, Pam says she doesn’t even understand why she behaves the way she does. In this live family therapy session, Dr. Guerin helps this befuddled family gain more understanding and clarity, while shining a light on the underlying anger, fear, and sadness that reside beneath the surface not only in Pam, but in her parents as well.
In this video, Guerin skillfully demonstrates ways to engage a closed family system, while highlighting several key principles of Bowenian therapy, including: establishing therapeutic safety and connection with each family member; lowering anxiety; utilizing process questions; neutralizing dysfunctional triangles in the family system; and offering relationship experiments.
This video is part of the 10-video series, Family Therapy with the Experts. Titles in this series include:
- Adlerian Family Therapy
- Bowenian Family Therapy
- Empowerment Family Therapy
- Integrative Family Therapy
- Narrative Family Therapy
- Object-Relations Family Therapy
- Satir Family Therapy
- Solution-Oriented Family Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Value-Sensitive Therapy
