Triangles and Family Therapy: Strategies and Solutions
Learn from master family therapist Monica McGoldrick as she reviews the powerful concept of triangles in relationships, offers step-by-step “detriangling” strategies, and bring these dynamics to life in a fascinating case study. Using genograms, the visual family mapping tool made popular by McGoldrick herself, you will see how an understanding of triangles can help you to enact deep resolution of family conflict.
When 30-year-old Eliza enters therapy to rectify her parents’ disapproval of her new boyfriend, a focus on triangle mapping prompts a sea change in her entire family’s fraught patterns. You’ll be surprised at how even within individual treatment, a visual layout of these rifts contextualizes Eliza’s problems and crystallizes her actions toward creating a new story for the whole clan. Succinct and to the point, this is one resource you’ll be glad to have on hand.
