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Role of the Therapist

  • Model
  • Facilitator
  • Coach

Principles of Experiential Family Therapy

  • The power of experience
  • Active, multisensory techniques
  • Affect and anxiety
  • Spontaneity and playfulness

Presentation of Practice Model

  • Influenced by Gestalt Therapy
  • Therapists concerned with using clients' in-session experiences to produce family growth and change
  • "The root cause of family problems is emotional suppression"

Historical Background

Cultural Sensitivity

  • Emerged in 1960s
  • Humanistic-Existential Theory
  • Carl Whitaker
  • Virginia Satir
  • Communication + Humanistic Frame of Reference

Treatment Planning

Assessment

Treatment Format, Use of Time Limits & Goals

  • Begin by assuming that therapy will be short-term, but...
  • Session length: 50-60 minutes weekly it typical
  • Time limits: Ask client at the beginning of treatment how many sessions
  • Goals: - Increase awareness and expression of feelings
  • Promote flexibility in response to problems
  • Promote spontaneity and playfulness within the family

Process - Experiential Therapy makes use of two key emotion-theoretical concepts:

  • Emotion Schemes
  • Emotion Reactions

Individual Experiential Therapy Process

Family Experiential Therapy Intervention Process

  • Generating an Interpersonal Set
  • Creating a Suprasystem
  • Stimulating a Symbolic Context
  • Activating Stress within the System
  • Creating Symbolic Experience
  • Moving Out of the System

Experiential Family Therapy

Wallace Wilson, Carmen Arias, Gemma Peralta

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