Emotional Cutoff
Consider the following individuals with respect to their families of origin. Person A is a highly differentiated person while Person B is largely undifferentiated. Which is more likely to...
View ArticleContent
Yalom (1985) states, “The content consists of the explicit words spoken, the substantive issues, the arguments advanced” (p. 137). In therapy, the content consists of the facts of the session. It is a...
View ArticleProcess
Process is what we’ve been working on for the past few weeks, but this concept is a slippery one. When we work on our dyads, or when we write up our observation reports, we are looking for evidence of...
View ArticleSecond-Order Change
Second-order change is one of the main concepts to be grasped in the field of Family Therapy. Because the family is viewed as a system, it is important to understand the role second order change can...
View ArticleFirst Order Change
First Order Change A First Order Change is a change in the message or behavior of some component or sub-system within a system. The change in behavior is then subject to the corrective influence of...
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Microsystem
According to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model there are five environmental systems in which a person lives and develops. They are the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and choronosystem....
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Mesosystems
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model contains five environmental systems which includes microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macorsystem, and chronosystem. The below image shows Bronfenbrenner’s five...
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It’s a Beautiful day in the Exosystem
When I realized that Bronfebrenner (1979) had constructed an ecological model of the concepts of: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem, I typed it into “images” on google right away. I...
View ArticleMacrosystem: You can’t escape it.
The macrosystem is comprised of the larger societal institutions, such as government, economy, media, and so forth, which lay the social and historical context for development (Bronfenbrenner, 1979)....
View ArticleResistance
Nichols (1987) defines resistance as, “anything clients do to subvert or slow the process of therapy. In family therapy, resistance is the rule, not the exception” (p. 251). There is no debate...
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