Post University Narrative Psychological Therapy & Stressors Discussion

Discussion #1:

Assessment-Case Study

The Gomez family has been referred to your agency by the family’s primary care physician who reports that the youngest child (age 6) is wetting his bed after being toilet trained (i.e. enuresis) and the primary care doctor believes that this is due to the recent separation of his parents. There is a history of alcohol misuse by the father and there have been incidents of domestic violence within the home. The family composition is Juan age 53, Elisa age 41, Julian age 20, Ricardo age 17, Lupe age 16 and Juan Jr age 6. You are a family therapist that specializes in narrative therapy and have been assigned the Gomez family who are of Hispanic descent. Please identify and discuss the strengths and limitations of this therapy modality culturally. In addition, select at minimum two narrative therapy techniques or interventions that you would use, being careful to explain why you selected those.

Discussion #2:

Medical Family Therapy

Medical Family therapists emphasize an integration of collaboration, client agency, and the biopsychosocial perspective. Identify a potential family issue whose etiology (i.e. cause or origin) could be explained from the biopsychosocial perspective and elaborate upon how the Medical Family model might inform your client care moving forward. Please be sure to integrate the information from the reading The next Advancement in Counseling: The Bio-Psycho-Social Model , here is the link: https://www.counseling.org/resources/library/vistas/vistas05/Vistas05.art03.pdf

Discussion#3:

Narrative Therapy

Consider the Narrative Model of family therapy. What three aspects, principles, approaches or techniques of this model do you like the best? Why? What part of this model are you most likely to integrate into your own unique brand of family therapy? What aspect of this model are you least likely to incorporate into your approach to family therapy? Why?