Using Family Systems Theory in Psychotherapy
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Overview
All of us, from novice to expert have bounced from one technique to the other while trying to “solve” a client’s problem, “fix” a family’s identified patient or “mend” a warring couple’s communication pattern. Monica McGoldrick frees us from the misguided pull of an individual’s problems by demonstrating how the lens of Family Systems Theory can help us with all of our clients, shifting our clinical attention from individual symptoms and presenting problems to racial, cultural, gendered and life-cycle issues that can keep clients in perpetual distress. In so doing, she will help you challenge, support and empower your clients to explore and resolve family-of-origin and relational conflicts that lock them and us hopelessly in place.
Join McGoldrick, front and center as she skillfully engages in a series of interviews and interventions with a diverse range of clients. While it is so easy to see our clients as one-dimensional, McGoldrick deepens our appreciation for the subtle yet powerful ways that individuals are parts of complex systems and how the past must always be alive in our clinical work. Instructive voice-over commentaries and incisive debriefings with Victor Yalom will deepen your family systems learning experience.
What's Included
In this 3-volume course, you’ll observe McGoldrick engage with challenging couples and families. You will see client problems in new and liberating ways, as well as learn to forge powerful alliances and generate meaningful solutions with them. These demonstrations and accompanying learning exercises will fill your clinical toolbox to overflowing.
Harnessing the Power of Genograms in Psychotherapy
See Monica McGoldrick masterfully conduct an initial interview with John, a 39-year-old African-American graphic designer who is having marital problems. Observe her step-by-step process of gathering historical information, creating the genogram, and contextualizing the client’s presenting problem within a multigenerational family systems framework.
Couples Therapy: A Family Systems Approach
In a powerful and rarely available clinical follow-up, watch McGoldrick in 6 sessions with John and Barbara, now 12 years married with one child. She explores their current relationship challenges and works with them on intimacy, communication and trust in the context of each of their own family-of-origin relations.
Assessment and Engagement in Family Therapy
Monica McGoldrick demonstrates over the course of five clinical sessions with the Zapata family, how to integrate specific techniques focused on helping family clients manage not just their presenting issues, but also the systems-oriented background concerns that underlie them.
About the Experts
Monica McGoldrick, MA, LCSW, PhD (Honorary), the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute is also Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and recipient of many awards, including the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. She has written and spoken widely on a variety of topics including culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, loss, genograms, remarried families, and siblings. Three of her books have become best-selling classics: The Changing Family Life Cycle , Ethnicity and Family Therapy, and Genograms: Assessment and Intervention.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found under the heading, ‘Therapist Disclosure.’
Psychotherapy.net offers trainings for cost but has no financial or other relationships to disclose.
Therapist Disclosure
Monica McGoldrick was compensated for her contribution to this course. None of her books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how systems therapy applies to families with adolescents
- Describe how to engage parents in discussing the impact of their family backgrounds
- Plan effective interventions for immigrant clients
- Explain a multi-generational approach to couples therapy
- Describe core techniques of systemic/contextual couples therapy
- Recite the differences between supportive and directive couples interventions
- Explain how to help clinicians to place presenting problems in historical context
- Explain how to respond when a client resists exploring family issues
- Explain the relevance to clients of exploring family background
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
8.5 hours of video featuring clinical sessions with individuals, couples, and families through the lens of family systems
Therapist Community
Multiple commentaries and debriefings distill McGoldrick’s process to deepen your family systems learning experience
Continuing Education
8 continuing education credits available for licensed professionals
Bonus Video
McGoldrick illustrates the concept of triangles and how “detriangling” can lead to powerful healing within families.
Monica McGoldrick is a master therapist, who makes her moment-to-moment thinking and action accessible to both beginners and experienced therapists.
“To watch Monica McGoldrick’s work is to witness the client’s life unfold before them like a family map whose many creases had so hidden his emotional location from view that they are directionless. Therapists, teachers of family therapy and students cannot help but be enriched by watching this course.”
“I know of no other comparable resource in the field that seamlessly displays the nuances of the genogram construction process while simultaneously providing a hands-on demonstration of its clinical relevance and effectiveness.”
“Monica demonstrates the value and skills of authentic and transparent meetings with the family. Her questions and assumptions are shared in ways that simultaneously build rapport and expand the inevitably rich context for exploring meanings, assumptions, resources and connections.”
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