Boszomeny: Contextual Family Therapy

Boszomeny-Nagys Boszomeny, was one of the many who described inner conflicts and extensive principles to external relationships. In 1986 he made known the use of ethical systems within a unit of relatives. This ethical system is used as a way to maintain trustworthiness, fairness, and loyalty between members of a family (Gehart, 2014).

What is contextual family therapy? This form of therapy is a relational approach and it is designed based on ones structures and processes. Relational determinants may occur in therapy, the contextual approach is built to benefit the client. In fact, contextual therapy assumes that the leverages of therapeutic interventions are fixed with relational determinants (Gehart, 2014). Facts, individual psychology,
By doing so this is a way to encourage insight from the family members (Gehart, 2014).

Working Through The Gehart (2014) text defines Working through as a process used to translate new insight into new actions within family relationships. New actions may include: changing behavior on insight discussed, helping client/clients to understand that he/she is projecting feelings onto partner that belongs in a different relationship and changing how one responds to his/her partner (Gehart, 2014).

Goals of Therapy Goals in contextual therapy are intended to place long term changes for both the individual as well as ones relative functioning (Gehart, 2014). One of the goals is to direct the client/clients to pay attention to their unconscious processes (Gehart, 2014). By doing this the client/clients learn to acknowledge and make them conscious to promote autonomy and self-absorbed actions. The therapist uses a system to turn around the slate of destructive entitlements and decrease communication between others that are based on projections (Gehart, 2014). Projections are a way one may transmit their emotional feelings onto another person. The therapist goal is to manage commitments of the family members to develop a fair sheet of entitlements and indebtness (Gehart, 2014). The primary goal is to help dysfunctional families by rebalancing the emotional ledgers between family members (Gehart,
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