Family Therapy: Psycho-Dynamic Experiential Model Of Suicide

| Family and Marital Therapy, Suicide | | Briann Mkiva Nkcubeko | 8/26/2013 |

Contents Models of Family therapy 4 Adlerian Family Therapy 4 Multigenerational Family Therapy 5 Human Validation Process Model 5 Therapaeutic techniques applied in Family Therapy 6 Psycho-dynamic Experiential Models 6 Structural Model 7 The case of Suzie 8 Therapeutic techniques of couples therapy 14 The case of Jack and Jill 16 Warning signs of suicide 20 Protective and risk factors for suicide 21 Treating suicide 22 The Three I’s 22
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………….23
References………………………………………………………………………………..24

Introduction

This paper can be considered three fold. Firstly, it focuses on the therapeutic approach
Family therapy is one of the therapeutic approaches a psychotherapist would use in assisting the individual. Family therapy can be defined as any psychotherapeutic endeavour that explicitly focuses on altering the interactions between family members and seeks to improve the functioning of the family as a unit or its subsystems, and/or the functioning of the individual members of the family (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2004). Family therapy aims on functioning on two levels, focuses on relationship goals or healing the relationship between members of the family, and it focuses also on individual goals such as increasing the family’s coping with a schizophrenic family member (Nichols & Schwartz, 2004).
In the early years of family therapy, change in the family system was seen as sufficient to bring out change in the individual, however, recent treatment aims at changes in the individual as well as in the family system (Sadock & Sadock, 2007). This tends to supplement the interventions that focus on interpersonal relationships with specific strategies that focus on individual behaviour (Sadock & Sadock,