{"title":"Teach Self-Awareness and Self-of-the-Therapist in a Chinese Society: A Class Example at National Taiwan University","authors":"Hao-Min Chen, Ping-Chuan Hsiung","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1471","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1471","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper discusses major cultural differences and corresponding teaching strategies when training student therapists in Taiwan about the concepts of self-of-the-therapist and self-awareness in marriage and family therapy. The authors present their years of teaching experience and observations about these cultural differences as well as a class example to address these differences. Specifically, a detailed summary of a master’s level course titled ‘Self-Development for Helping Professionals’ will be illustrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 4","pages":"377-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43168218","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 Capabilities of Taiwanese Families Experiencing Chronic Heart Failure","authors":"Szu-Yi Peng, Joseph Wo, Ping-Chuan Hsiung","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1467","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1467","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model as the guiding theoretical framework, this hermeneutic phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of individuals and families adapting to life with chronic heart failure (CHF). We analysed 17 interviews with either individuals or families from a medical centre in a metropolitan city in Taiwan. The processes of adaptation involved families’ efforts to reduce or manage demands by utilising their existing capabilities, to strengthen and expand coping strategies, and to change meanings that shaped how they responded to their situations. The findings demonstrate the roles of family capabilities and family meanings in the process of a family living with CHF.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 4","pages":"414-425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47913273","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}
Lai-Yin Chow, Wai-Kwok Kam, Viviana Cheng, Wai-Yung Lee
{"title":"The Impact of Unresolved Parental Conflict on Patients with Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Observation","authors":"Lai-Yin Chow, Wai-Kwok Kam, Viviana Cheng, Wai-Yung Lee","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1469","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on a dataset, this paper examines the link between children’s presenting problems and interparental relationships. The clinical discussion focuses specifically on the impact of parental relationship on mental illness. Using a protocol to measure both the physiological and verbal responses of the patients, it is observed that regardless of the psychiatric diagnoses given to these children or young adults, almost all of them were deeply involved in their parents’ unresolved relational conflict. In the five case scenarios provided for illustration, the patients could articulate very clearly how concerned they were when they sensed their parent's relationship was at risk, and how their symptoms had served a function in maintaining the family equilibrium. Based on this clinical observation, it is important to develop a treatment approach that addresses mental illness in the family context.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 4","pages":"367-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137703809","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-Based Intervention for Chinese Families of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Hong Kong, China","authors":"Joyce L. C. Ma","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1468","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1468","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reviews the clinical utility of family-based treatment, comprised of multiple family therapy (MFT) and structural family therapy (SFT), in helping Hong Kong Chinese families of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The author identifies the psychosocial service needs of these families and examines the contributions of the adapted MFT and SFT in responding to the psychosocial service needs of these families. Critical issues for clinical practice and research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 4","pages":"402-413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anzf.1468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46584521","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":"Dialogical Practice, Ethnography, The Ecosystemic, Post-human, and More","authors":"Glenn Larner","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1466","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"243-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/anzf.1466","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49573488","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}
Mustafa Alperen Kurşuncu, Şule Baştemur, Nancy Murdock
{"title":"Triangling, Anxiety, and Negative Self-Image: The Mediating Role of Experiential Avoidance","authors":"Mustafa Alperen Kurşuncu, Şule Baştemur, Nancy Murdock","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1465","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1465","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of experiential avoidance in relationships between triangling configurations (balanced, mediator, cross-generational coalition, scapegoating), anxiety, and negative self-image (NS). The study sample comprised 381 university students. Data were collected from these participants using the Triangular Relationship Inventory (TRI), the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), the Negative Self and Anxiety Subscales of Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), and a demographic information form. Findings of the structural equation modelling analyses revealed that triangling configurations and experiential avoidance (together) explained 36% of the variance in negative self and 44% of the variance in anxiety. Regarding indirect effects, it was found that experiential avoidance fully mediated the relationships between triangling configurations (except scapegoating), NS, and anxiety. The mediator type of triangling was found to play a protective role against NS and anxiety—the literature delineates the study findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"336-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47448849","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":"Narrative Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: Using Documents of Resistance","authors":"Carlos Chimpén-López, Rubén Arriazu Muñoz","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1459","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1459","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Treating anorexia nervosa is one of the greatest challenges faced by current health policies. This paper reflects on the social and cultural aspects of this type of eating disorder and proposes an intervention approach based on narrative therapy as a complement to existing treatments. This type of therapy requires a holistic and coordinated vision of the socio-cultural and community aspects that surround both the person dealing with anorexia and their closest social circle of friends and family. The effects of anorexia, when it becomes the dominant voice in a person's narrative, need to be understood within a broader and more inclusive social context without putting all the responsibility on the person who is being bullied by anorexia. Based on the qualitative results of the Archive of Resistance presented by the Anti-Anorexia League, narrative therapy is shown to have great potential for transforming the current approach to treating anorexia in English. This paper recommends use of the poststructuralist approach of narrative therapy to collaborate with the person affected by anorexia in Spanish-speaking cultures. At the same time, it opens a discussion on the need to establish a document database, an Archive of Resistance, in Spanish, to help mitigate the effects of anorexia.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"276-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/anzf.1459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46636145","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 Ethno-Eco-Systemic Perspective: The Coming into Being of a Family Therapy Institution in Argentina -- Politics, Practices, and Experiences","authors":"Maria Esther Cavagnis","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1463","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1463","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethno-Eco-Systemic (EES) refers to a theoretical clinical perspective that we have been developing at the FyP (fundación Familias y Parejas) in recent years. This work was presented on the day of commemoration of the institution's 40th anniversary and is the result of a collective reflective process. We invite you to consider this perspective as an aesthetic of transdisciplinary thought, closer to art than to technique and which connects ethnographic, ecological, and systemic concepts. From the readings of some thinkers, especially Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, to mention some of the most influential Europeans; Suely Rolnik and Viveiros de Castro in Brazil; Tato Pavlovski and Gregorio Baremblit in Argentina; and so many others in South America, we have been urged to revisit Bateson and revalue the power of his thinking for the family psychotherapeutic clinic.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"261-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/anzf.1463","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46204972","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":"What Does it Mean to Work ‘Dialogically’ in Open Dialogue and Family Therapy? A Narrative Review","authors":"Ben Ong, Niels Buus","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1464","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1464","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Open Dialogue approach has gained increasing international interest outside of its origins in Finland. However, the central principle of promoting dialogue can be a difficult concept to teach and apply. In addition, there is a wide range of authors and articles about Open Dialogue and dialogical approaches creating a potentially overwhelming number of sources for clinicians to consider. In this narrative review, we describe and synthesise the wide range of writings on how dialogue may be promoted in family therapy. This article covers the various uses of the term ‘dialogue,’ the dialogical mindset of the therapist, recommendations on how to respond to clients during meetings, the involvement of the therapist’s ‘self’ in meetings, and the use of reflecting teams. We present a concise list of recommendations to aid clinicians and to promote further discussion about dialogical practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"246-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/anzf.1464","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45742573","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":"Interdisciplinary Reflections on Conversation Analysis, Power, and Open Dialogue","authors":"Ben Ong","doi":"10.1002/anzf.1461","DOIUrl":"10.1002/anzf.1461","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a psychologist and family therapist my professional education has had a significant impact on my personal life and how I see the world. Over the past four years I have been privileged enough to work on a PhD, which has again changed my perspective. This research examines Open Dialogue sessions using conversation analysis, which focuses on normative conversational structures and how they are utilised to achieve social actions. Conversation analysis forced me to abandon previous therapeutic concepts and look at Open Dialogue and family therapy generally from an interdisciplinary perspective. Through this process I have noticed a few recurring ideas: interactions are sequential, psychotherapy involves abstraction, and power is unavoidable and not inherently ‘bad.’ In this article, I elaborate on these ideas in the first person and how they have changed the way I practice and think about family therapy with reference to the appropriate research and literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":51763,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy","volume":"42 3","pages":"309-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/anzf.1461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44344939","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}