Family of Origin Work in Training: Essential or Dangerous?

This paper discusses how to integrate reflective practice in the family therapy supervisory relationship. This enables family therapists to think creatively, be insightful, and develop a range of perspectives regarding systemic formulation and practice. It encourages review of the past and promotes understanding in the present with the aim to improve therapists work with families in the future. Reflective practice encourages independent thinking and learning and helps therapists to develop a systemic process of critical enquiry to investigate and critique their own practice. It encourages therapists to be self‐reflective and develop confidence to think hypothetically regarding change. This allows them to pose questions for exploration, construct a new lens to conceptualise therapy and the therapeutic relationship and develop awareness of the personal as well as the professional self.

Section: Strategies To Stimulate Reflectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Reflective Practice in Family Therapy Supervision

Senediak

2013

“…The third is an issue of trainee maturity and experience, and the assertion that trainees benefit most from FoO training when they are over the age of 40 'simply because they have attained fuller knowledge of themselves, and thus have more points of connection with the personalities and patterns they discover in their families' (Mason, Gibney, & Crago, 2002, p. 49). Finally, and pertinent to our findings, is the reluctance in the past to integrate FoO coaching into family therapy practice (Flaskas & Perlesz, 1996;Mason et al, 2002), despite the fact that this view can be traced as far back as Jung's ancient idea of the 'wounded healer'. Reassuringly, the literature suggests a resurgence of interest in the coaching of the self of the trainee therapist, an interest shared by our clinical team and supported by its findings.…”

Section: Evidence For Foo Coachingmentioning

confidence: 71%

Family of Origin Supervision in the Workplace: Impacts on Therapist and Team Functioning

Donnelly

Gosbee

2009

The Adolescent and Family Unit at Redbank House carried out a trial of Bowen's Family of Origin Coaching that has prompted us to comment on the usefulness of this approach as a component of clinical supervision. This article will describe how this trial came about, the process adaptations required to make it possible and how some of the ethical dilemmas raised by this approach were addressed. Personal reflections from the team members will be shared, and our observations in terms of impact of this form of supervision on clinical functioning, team cohesion and service provision will then be discussed. In essence, we aim to provide an anecdotal account of our experience and ask the question, 'Is supervision that focuses on the therapist's individual functioning as a product of their intergenerational patterns a valid use of resources in a clinical setting?'

“…A search within the Australian Psychological Society's Australian Psychologist from 1966 and Clinical Psychologist from 1996 (since the journals were first published) yielded no relevant publications. A search within the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy in the past 10 years on training yielded five related papers (Allison, Perlesz, & Pote, 2002;Larner et al, 2002;Mason, Gibney, & Crago, 2002;Young, Stuart, Rubenstein, Boyle, Schotten, & McCormick ,2003;Tisher & Jackson, 2003).…”

Section: The Value Of Family Therapy Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What constitutes core family therapy skills and knowledge has been of recent interest to therapists and trainers in family therapy. Vigorous debate has occurred on the dangers, preconditions, safeguards and expectations of trainees undergoing family of origin reflection as part of their family therapy training (Findlay, 1997;Larner et al, 2002;Mason et al, 2002;Young et al, 2003). Since Bowen's (1978) seminal work on intergenerational theory and therapy, there is a general consensus (e.g., Gehart, 2010;Larner et al, 2002) about the value of family of origin work in developing the trainee's sense of self and family assessment and therapy skills.…”

Section: The Value Of Family Therapy Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Family Therapy Training in a Clinical Psychology Course

Habib¹

2011

Teaching family therapy to clinical psychology trainees is not common practice in Australian clinical psychology training programs. There is sparse discussion in the literature. Family therapy is an evidence based intervention that complements a diversity of established theories and psychotherapies and would complement the intervention skills of trainee clinical psychologists. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how family therapy training may be integrated into a postgraduate clinical psychology course. The literature on core family therapy knowledge, skills and training methods will form the backdrop to a review of specific family therapy training courses for clinical psychology trainees. This will then be mapped against a consideration of accreditation requirements of clinical psychology courses in Australia and suggestions made for integrating family therapy into their training curriculum. Anecdotal feedback from students provides an initial step toward evaluation.