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Eco-maps are used in individual and family counseling within the social work and nursing profession. They are often a way of portraying Systems Theory in a simplistic way that both the social worker and the client can look at during the session. These ecological maps, or ecomaps, were developed by Hartman in 1975 as a means of depicting the ...
The terms emotion-focused therapy and emotionally focused therapy have different meanings for different therapists.. In Les Greenberg's approach the term emotion-focused is sometimes used to refer to psychotherapy approaches in general that emphasize emotion.
The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities , each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities.
Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy focused on families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an expression of the family's authentic inner conflicts. As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room ...
Strategic family therapy as a short-term form of family therapy can be utilized with youths who struggle with behavioral issues such as drug addiction and delinquency. [ 4 ] Cloé Madanes has taken her Strategic approach and, in collaboration with Tony Robbins , Mark Peysha, and Magali Peysha, developed a coaching method initially known as ...
This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies.. This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication.
The Family Environment Scale (FES) was developed and is used to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. [1] It can be used in several ways, in family counseling and psychotherapy, to teach program evaluators about family systems, and in program evaluation.