Come restituire la voce e la competenza al bambino attraverso la terapia familiare

2009 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Maurizio Andolfi
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorders ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Relational Competence ◽  
Therapeutic Context

- In this paper the Author outlines the importance of activating young children in family therapy. He describes through a few clinical examples how to use children's relational competence and their skills in bridigings generations. His/her psychological/psychosomatic disorders could play a different role in a therapeutic context, oriented to looking for children's resources more than treating symptoms. The child can be considered a therapist's consultant in couple therapy. When invited, his voice and his sensitivity can help parents to find areas of agreement and mutual respect.

Judgments of a Child Involved in Accidental Damage and Responding Differentially to Adult Reprimand

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1071-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlton C. Aldrich ◽  
James C. Mancuso
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Older Children

72 first-grade and 72 sixth-grade boys viewed scenes showing a boy involved in accidental damage, then receiving and responding differentially to adult reprimand. Children, having viewed one of the films, recorded their attribution of goodness-badness and also predicted the potential good-bad conduct of the transgressor. Analyses support conclusions, consistent with Piaget's moral judgment theory, that (a) young children perceive an accidental transgressor more negatively than do older children; and (b) young children evaluate responses to reprimand in terms of whether they conform to adult command, whereas older children evaluate those responses in accordance with whether they are congruent with the principle of mutual respect. Piaget's theory requires reconsideration in light of the finding that older children predicted a preponderance of good behaviors for the boy who was shown responding in a manner that can be taken as a violation of the principle of mutual trust.

Ethics in Couple and Family Psychotherapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Schaer ◽  
Célia Steinlin
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Couple And Family Therapy ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
The Enlightenment

In couple and family therapy, the focus is on relationships, interactions, and the dynamics within the system. The therapist should strive to maintain a balanced and trustful relationship with all members of the system, and at the same time do justice to their individual wishes and perspectives. Couples and families usually present themselves with conflicts of interest that they have failed to resolve. Dealing with conflicts of interest is therefore an important element of couple and family therapy. The existing ethical guidelines, defined by psychological professional associations and medical ethics experts, are not specific enough at representing the complexities which family and couple therapists are confronted with. As an alternative to the ethical guidelines, Beauchamp and Childress (2008) have worked out general ethical principles: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. In this chapter, a number of ethical problems in couple and family therapy are discussed against the backdrop of these principles. Problems in family and couple therapy can be addressed based on the question who of the system members carries more blame and who can execute more control. Four models of help, i.e., the medical model, the compensatory model, the enlightenment model, and the moral model, are presented with regard to this question. Finally, it is argued that ethical issues in couple and family therapy are relational and context-dependent. They must therefore be resolved in the encounter with each other.

Play with Young Children in Family Therapy

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Savege Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Young Children
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