The article is an important starting point for reflecting upon the emergence and development of fundamental trust through the first, primary relationship between the newborn and the parent. The birth ...of the first child signifies establishment of a family system, in which the concepts and mechanisms that Relational Family Therapy is built upon, are reflected on a systemic, interpersonal and intrapsychic level. Relational Family Therapy can find a way to resolve painful psychical contents and bring about a relief of the family system. The starting point for the study of the family described in this paper is the method of observing newborn behavior, the Newborn Behavioral Observations System (hereinafter NBO) with elements of Relational Family Therapy, which significantly helps to build a confident parental role and establishes a closer relationship between parents and children, thus forming the foundation for all further relationships.
Childhood family abuse or neglect is a traumatic relational experience with potentially long lasting impact on one’s psycho-organic and interpersonal world. The purpose of our qualitative research ...was to deepen the understanding of negative trauma impact on adults’ emotional world and to find the ways of recovery through Relational Family Therapy. Seven adults with the history of childhood abuse or neglect participated in the research. The results pointed out potential difficulties in identifying, naming and understanding emotions, differentiating past emotions from the present ones, distinguishing one’s own emotions from the projected ones, issues with experiencing the diversity of emotions, and difficulties with emotion regulation and management. Positive changes in these areas were observed in Relational Family Therapy. The findings of this research are a contribution to the understanding of specific emotional problems of adults with the history of childhood abuse or neglect as well as to therapeutic interventions that could lead to recovery.
Divorce or dissolution of a long-term intimate relationship is an event on the continuum of an individual's experience of attachment injury that is reawakened and played out again in this process. An ...attachment injury means the experience of rejection and betrayal of trust at a critical time of distress when one is in need of support. By means of the case study method, the article presents a case of a female client dealing with divorce. The history of traumatic relations through a lens of attachment theory is presented, along with divorce as the reawakening of an attachment injury and its processing in a relational family therapy model.
In this article, we examine the field of family therapy by drawing a distinction between two forms of practice: Whole Family Therapy (WFT), defined as treating the whole family, and Relational Family ...Therapy (RFT), defined as working with a subsystem of the family or an individual while retaining a systemic lens. Our thesis is that the practice of WFT has been in decline for some time and steps must be taken to keep it from becoming a defunct practice. We consider the trajectory of WFT and RFT throughout the development of family therapy through reference to the people, the literature, training, and practice patterns associated with family therapy. We remind the reader of the many benefits of WFT and suggest that today WFT is likely to be practiced in conjunction with RFT and individual therapy. Since training of family therapists today is largely located in degree‐granting programs, we identify constraints to including WFT in such programs. We conclude by offering suggestions that can enhance a program's ability to train students in WFT.
En este artículo analizamos el ámbito de la terapia familiar haciendo una distinción entre dos formas de práctica: la terapia para toda la familia, definida como el tratamiento de toda la familia, y la terapia familiar relacional, definida como el trabajo con un subsistema de la familia o una persona conservando un marco sistémico. Nuestra tesis es que la práctica de la terapia para toda la familia ha estado en decadencia durante cierto tiempo y que deben tomarse medidas para evitar que se extinga como práctica. Repasamos la trayectoria de la terapia para toda la familia y de la terapia familiar relacional a lo largo del desarrollo de la terapia familiar mediante referencias a las personas, la bibliografía y los modelos de capacitación y práctica asociados con la terapia familiar. Le recordamos al lector los numerosos beneficios de la terapia para toda la familia y sugerimos que actualmente se espera que dicha terapia se practique conjuntamente con la terapia familiar relacional y la terapia individual. Teniendo en cuenta que en la actualidad la capacitación de los terapeutas familiares depende en gran medida de programas que otorgan diplomas, reconocemos las limitaciones para incluir la terapia para toda la familia en dichos programas. En la conclusión se ofrecen sugerencias que puedan mejorar la capacidad de un programa para capacitar a alumnos en terapia para toda la familia.
在本文中,我们将通过区分整体家庭心理治疗(WFT)和关系型家庭心理治疗(RFT)来研究家庭心理治疗这一领域。整体家庭心理治疗指对整个家庭进行治疗;关系型家庭心理治疗是指对家庭中某一子系统或某一个人进行治疗而同时保持系统化视角。我们的论点是一段时间以来整体家庭心理治疗实践不断衰退,我们必须采取措施以避免其成为一种被废止的治疗方案。我们将通过参考与家庭心理治疗相关的人员,文献,培训与实践模式来审视整体家庭治疗和关系型家庭治疗在整个家庭心理治疗发展过程中的轨迹。我们要提醒读者整体家庭心理治疗的种种好处,并建议当今整体家庭心理治疗可以和关系型家庭心理治疗与个体心理治疗相结合。 由于当今家庭心理治疗师的培训主要在有授予学位资格的院校中进行,我们指出了在这些院校中纳入整体家庭心理治疗培训的局限因素。 在结尾,我们提出了关于如何提升一个院校培训整体家庭心理治疗师能力的建议。
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Families of children with chronic illness experience persistent stress. Facing the diagnosis and learning how to cope with it is a stressful experience not only for the child but also for the parents ...and for the whole family. The illness, with its unpredictability and treatment, disturbs their daily routine and threatens the whole family system. Parental involvement in the child’s disease management and their emotional support are crucial for effective coping and adaptation to the child’s chronic illness. The aim of this article is to present the importance of the parental role in these families through theoretical findings of the relational family model.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders in the childhood. It's a persistent and severe impairment of psychological development resulting from a high ...level of inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive behaviour and puts sufferers at risk for a range of abnormalities in different areas of development as well as comorbid mental disorders. The adverse outcomes include dysfunction in familiy relations. ADHD likely involves both genetic and environmental etiologies. Treatments most frequently used are medication, neurofeedback, family interventions and family therapy. The review of recent scientific literature refering dynamics in families with ADHD children and family relations based treatments may propose relational family therapy as one of the possible interventions.
We all long for relationships with others, because only in connecting with others can we develop our intrapsychic structure and become functional adults. We are psychologically predisposed to have a ...constant connection with others and are driven toward relationships with others. Our deepest yearnings are therefore devoted to building solid dialogue as the means of becoming fully human. We, therefore, consciously or unconsciously, long for a relationship where we can experience happiness, satisfaction and, above all, redemption or salvation from our dreads, miseries and unhappiness. In this article we presuppose that a therapeutic relationship, demonstrated in a psychoanalytic setting, namely in relational family therapy, can contain redemptive dimensions in which the inextinguishable longing for salvation is always present.
The purpose of this article is to show the affective side of the marital infidelity as it could be traced through therapeutic process in relational marital therapy. Relational family therapy is based ...on the notion of mutuality of affect and transgenerational transmission of affect dysregulation. In the article we present a couple therapy in which we address the affective mutuality of the dynamic of infidelity and uncover the deep shame and fear that lies at the core of that dynamic. In the therapeutic process of the couple therapy a certain turning point in the emotional flow of the process, namely the onset of sadness, occurred through recalling of painful childhood memory of physical abuse and neglect. We argue that the onset of deep sadness created a safe enough environment for the couple in which they could start mourning detached relationships in their families of origin and thus prepared the ground for the verbalization of the affects of fear and shame.
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