FAMILTY THERAP

Family Therapy

Introduction

The field of family therapy has been the subject of clinical research, especially in the last four decades. Different areas of knowledge such as social work, psychiatry and psychoanalysis have theorized and developed techniques for clinical assessment and intervention with families. However, within the various psychological schools little has been theorized family. That is, on its bonds and its constituent elements: their roles, the functions performed by each member in the family, communication, norms and power relations. These elements are the basis for the evaluation takes place, the descriptive diagnosis of the family relationship implementing intervention strategies. The first studies were made ??about family were made ??by psychiatrists, whose main interest was to complement the intervention with schizophrenic patients, as the family played a key role in maintaining the patient's symptoms. Subsequently, the value of research was extended to other types of families in which there was some kind of pathology that caused a dysfunction within the family. Family therapy has emerged in a field that traditionally sees the family as an oppressive force. Bruno Bettelheim, school orthogenetic Chicago prescribed the "perectomia", the removal of the parents of the child's life as a solution to severely damaged creatures. The first family therapy, consistent with this prejudice against parents, patients, faced with the idea of protecting the families. The concept of family structure was originally proposed by Minuchin to indicate functional restrictions. Family structures are conservative but modifiable (Mikesell, 1995).

Family

The family concept has been defined from different points of view according to the approach provided by different areas of knowledge. Therefore, it is possible to construct a universal definition involving each of the aspects of the family. However, it becomes possible to approach from different disciplines; areas such as sociology and anthropology emphasize the social and cultural aspects that show the family as a social structure. Other approaches from psychology and psychoanalysis emphasize mainly on the individual, where the family is in space where the structure all aspects of personality, i.e., the particular way each individual learns to interact with their environment. The family group seen from the social sciences is the first space that the individual has to share with their peers, that is, for engaging social. This interaction is governed by various rules and laws that are in turn characterized the group itself and the individual turned down due to the way you like it to be transmitted and the assumed and enforced. The way in which individuals are integrated into a family and their educational process have been observed by different social science areas, each giving different explanations and causes, the ability to establish relationships and dependency. A shared economy that ensures satisfaction and security, both the individual and the group are factors considered of significant value to the family group configuration according to disciplines such as anthropology and sociology (Goldenberg, 1980).

Psychoanalytic family therapy

The goal of any family therapy is to call it change. The nature and content of this change are defined differently depending on ...