Federico Maria Albertini, Jacob Cilius Vinsten Christiansen, Christopher Loh, Nasif Nijabat
{"title":"New materialism(s) and systemic psychotherapy: Does it matter? (PART 1)","authors":"Federico Maria Albertini, Jacob Cilius Vinsten Christiansen, Christopher Loh, Nasif Nijabat","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12479","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper is one part of a two-part series. Part one provides the theoretical groundwork for New Materialisms (NMs), while part two establishes the connections between these theoretical foundations and systemic practice. Therefore, the aim of this work is to delve into the core concepts of NMs in the field of systemic psychotherapy. Its genesis is inspired by our collaboration as doctoral students in systemic psychotherapy. New Materialisms represent a contemporary and heterogeneous movement that has emerged from the works of key proponents from diverse fields: philosophy (e.g. Deleuze and Guattari), anthropology (e.g. Viveiros de Castro and Ingold) and physics (e.g. Barad). They are characterised by a theoretical and practical ‘turn to matter.’ We will outline how NMs differentiate themselves from the ‘linguistic turn’ proposed by a moderate version of social constructionism, which we believe is endemic in much of systemic psychotherapy research and practice. We will discuss both the potential innovations that NMs could bring to the systemic psychotherapy field and the criticisms they could provoke. An invitation to consider the implications of NMs upon the systemic field is extended. Although we acknowledge that systemic psychotherapy and NMs are two disciplines driven by heterogeneous drivers, we posit that both are practices of freedom from stability and identity, which open up fields of differences where new possibilities for life can be invented.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The missing discipline: Foucault, discipline and family therapy","authors":"Sam Rhodes-Phillips","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12477","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family therapists have used the philosophy of the French critical theorist Foucault to help us think in more sophisticated ways about a range of topics, including power, society and culture. However, his work includes another key concept which has been largely neglected in family therapy: that of discipline. In this article I undertake an exploration of discipline and suggest that, by considering this element of Foucault's work, we might be able to develop more sophisticated frameworks to think about how institutions and our clients' expectations of those institutions shape what happens in the therapy room. I conclude by offering a few ideas that gesture towards what that framework might look like in therapeutic practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family functioning and aggression among Spanish adolescents. Examining the roles of family cohesion, family flexibility, family communication and family satisfaction","authors":"María Isabel Vegas","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The main purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between family functioning and aggression among Spanish adolescents. A sample of 1,196 adolescents between 14 and 18 years old (50 per cent female) were selected from twenty-three educational centres, ten university degrees and eighteen specific juvenile facilities. The Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES IV Package) were administered. In regard to results, adolescent hostility was the dimension of aggression most strongly related to poor family functioning. The family functioning risk factors for aggression were disengagement, chaos and rigidity, while family communication was an essential protective factor. Enmeshment did not correlate significantly with aggression but became an aggression risk factor in late adolescence. The family functioning variable most related to adolescent aggression in multi-problematic families was disengagement, while it was the absence of rigidity among adolescent offenders. The results are discussed considering the cultural context, concluding the importance of Spanish parents combining affection and leadership, and enhancing positive family communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family therapy and systemic interventions for child-focussed problems: The evidence base","authors":"Alan Carr","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This 25th anniversary review updates previous similar papers published in JFT in 2000, 2009, 2014 and 2019. It presents evidence from meta-analyses and systematic reviews for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of young people with common mental and physical health problems and other difficulties where children are the primary focus of concern. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family-based approaches such as parent training, or parent-implemented interventions. There is now a substantial evidence base supporting the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for infant mental health and sleep and feeding problems in infancy; recovery from child abuse and neglect; externalising and internalising problems; eating disorders; somatic problems; and psychosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12476","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faezeh Kaviyani, Hasan Saadati, Seyed Abdolmajid Bahreinian
{"title":"Persian version of the McHale co-parenting scale: The evaluation of the psychometric properties","authors":"Faezeh Kaviyani, Hasan Saadati, Seyed Abdolmajid Bahreinian","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12473","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Validation of the MacHale Co-parenting Scale (1997) was examined in a sample of 192 Persian-speaking parents who had children in primary school. Translation of this scale was performed using the forward–backward method. To assess reliability, internal consistency was used after translating the items into Persian. Face validity, content validity and structural validity were also applied to ensure tool validity. The results indicated that Ballit's sphericity test yielded a value of 1153.138 at a significance level of <i>p</i> < .05. Using varimax rotation, three factors (Family Integrity, Consistency and Conflict) were identified with eigenvalues greater than 1 and factor loadings higher than 0.5. The total factors explained 58.18 per cent of the variance in the data. Additionally, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the entire questionnaire was 0.84. The Persian version of the co-parenting questionnaire has satisfactory psychometric properties with acceptable reliability and validity for measuring joint parenting among Iranian parents in terms of family integrity, consistency and conflict dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SFT for ASD: A systemic intervention for neurodiverse families","authors":"Anthony Pennant","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To increase the number of family-based interventions and deal directly with the family dynamic that creates maladaptive manners of coping and connection, structural family therapy (SFT) for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was developed. The model slowly supports families in being more flexible in their relationships and dynamics while imparting interpersonal skills which enhance communication particularly between the children with ASD and their parents by reforming and supporting an appropriate family structure and family dynamic.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12475","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adjunctive multi-family intervention based on non-verbal techniques in a day hospital for parents and toddlers with feeding problems","authors":"Ine Jespers, Isabel De Groote","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12472","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Feeding problems in early childhood are common and affect parental behaviour with more use of maladaptive feeding strategies. Although multi-family therapy is well known as an effective intervention for adolescents and adults with eating disorders/problems, the use of multi-family therapy for toddlers with feeding problems is rather rare. In this paper we describe how we adapted the evidence-based goals of multi-family therapy to a specific format for parents and toddlers and how we used it in our clinical work. We explain the importance of creating a supportive culture in which parents may develop effective feeding strategies. We describe how we used non-verbal techniques in multi-family therapy as a tool for growth for both toddlers and parents. We end with some retrospective reflections and directions for future therapy and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"46 4","pages":"361-373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multisystemic therapy for young people involved in or at risk of child criminal exploitation: Young people and Caregivers' perspectives","authors":"Simone Fox, Holly Wake, Emily Glorney","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12471","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Child criminal exploitation is a form of child abuse, linked to youth gang involvement and with long-lasting serious consequences for communities. Multisystemic therapy (MST) is a systemic intervention for antisocial behaviour with an extensive evidence base but there is limited research focussing on gang involved or criminally exploited young people. Through semi-structured interviews, this study qualitatively explored young people at risk of exploitation (<i>n</i> = 4) and their caregivers (<i>n</i> = 6) experience of MST across three sites in England. Four themes emerged through thematic analysis: changes experienced; improved caregiver-young person relationship; facilitators of change; and barriers to change. The process of MST facilitated behaviour change and supported development of support networks for caregivers and engagement with prosocial young peers. Barriers to change included young people's association with negative adults and frequent peer relationship changes. Further exploration of the complex associations between negative adults and young people at risk of exploitation is recommended.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"46 4","pages":"344-360"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6427.12471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I feel like they understand me a bit more’: The experiences of young people with borderline personality disorder following their parents taking part in a mentalisation-based intervention for parents and carers (MBT-FACTS)","authors":"Celeste Benetti, Richard Whitehead, Liza Hopkins","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12470","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12470","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a distressing mental illness that is overrepresented in adolescents and youth and which was previously thought difficult to treat. Families and carers of those with BPD can also experience high levels of distress and burden and can struggle in their support of those with BPD. The Families and Carers Training and Support (FACTS) program is an innovative skills and education program for family members and carers of someone with BPD informed by mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) principles. To address a gap in the research, the present study aimed to see what effect, if any, a carer-focused intervention has on the young people with BPD themselves. To assess this, interviews were conducted with eight young people whose family members participated in the program. Overall, the young people felt there had been positive changes during and after their family members' participation in the program. They felt the communication with their family members improved; they also felt more understood and that they had more space and freedom in the home and that the tension in the household decreased. Additionally, several young people felt they would have liked to be more involved in the process and to take part in the program alongside their family members. The findings indicate that interventions focusing on building understanding and self-awareness in carers of those BPD can be important in ameliorating the challenging impact of BPD on young people and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"46 4","pages":"406-422"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social GRRRAAACCCEEESSS in intercultural couple therapy: A semantic analysis","authors":"Julia Kalaydjian, Valentina Lugli, Reenee Singh","doi":"10.1111/1467-6427.12469","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-6427.12469","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS must be addressed by the therapist, as they can easily and unintentionally be missed. The present article is based on a qualitative analysis of two case examples to draw out extracts of conversations around such biases. The purpose of the article is to bridge the heuristic of the Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS with the concept of semantic polarities and to illustrate the complex positioning of the therapist in encounters with intercultural couples. Both a semantic analysis and a deductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyse extracts of material from two case studies. The findings are discussed adopting joint systemic and psychodynamic approaches. Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS can either remain unvoiced and marginalised or can be brought to the surface. The article addresses the importance of the therapist's role in highlighting marginalised discourses and managing unintentional alliances.</p>","PeriodicalId":51575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"46 4","pages":"388-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}