Strategic Family Therapy

Smith, Tiffany; Ruzgyte, Edita; Spinks, Donald

doi:10.1891/9780826106827.0011

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“…Strategic therapy does not incorporate the concepts of normal or abnormal (Fisch, Weakland, & Segal, 1982) and would therefore be useful for helping a cross-dresser to attain a sense of balance between the yearning to cross-dress and perceived restrictions. Strategic therapy assumes people, couples, and families have the psychological ability for change (Smith, Ruzgyte, & Spinks, 2011). It is the premise of strategic therapy that the current behaviors, communication patterns, or hierarchical structures within the family permit the problems to continue (Metcalf, 2011; Smith et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Strategic therapy assumes people, couples, and families have the psychological ability for change (Smith, Ruzgyte, & Spinks, 2011). It is the premise of strategic therapy that the current behaviors, communication patterns, or hierarchical structures within the family permit the problems to continue (Metcalf, 2011; Smith et al, 2011).…”

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To interrupt this cycle, a completely new solution becomes required. Strategic counselors are looking to specifically change the cycles of interaction between the clients, and the structure, power, and control within family relationships (Smith et al, 2011).…”

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal gain versus altruism: the client with the symptoms can be seen as being motivated by personal gain or altruistically. Once the motivation of the symptomatic client is determined, the strategic based counselor can form the strategy for counseling the couple (Madanes, 1991; Smith et al, 2011).…”

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Case Study of Cross-Dressing

Gallo

2015

The Family Journal

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There are two goals for presenting this article. The first goal is to consider socialized gender roles, clinical treatment, and strategic marriage therapy and to present a case study detailing the progression of counseling with a cross-dressing client with the spouse. The second goal is to prepare counselor educators, counselors, and counseling supervisors by encouraging consideration for the cross-dressing client and encouraging discussions around gender identity and gender expression and to improve the therapeutic practices with nontraditional gender identities and nontraditional gender expressions.

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Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategic Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Case Study of Cross-Dressing

Gallo

2015

The Family Journal

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“…Another universal feature of human groups (as well as most animal groups) is that they have a degree of hierarchy and a division of roles. In strategic family therapy, for instance, a balanced and natural hierarchy between parents and children is emphasized as a necessity [ 29 ]. Within small groups, members enjoy having a clear division of roles which provide members with a sense of place and individual distinctiveness [ 30 – 32 ].…”

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Community Collectivism: A social dynamic approach to conceptualizing culture

2017

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Culture shapes individuals, but the measurement of cultural differences has proven a challenge. Traditional measures of cultural values focus on individual perceptions. We suggest that values are established and maintained within social communities of proximate others, such as the family and its social environment. Within such communities, values serve to maintain collective harmony whilst preserving individual agency. From a social-dynamic analysis of communities, we infer that community values of loyalty regulate individual commitment, values of honor regulate norm compliance, and values of group hierarchy maintain a division of labor. In addition, communities may regulate the ways in which individuals have independent agency. A new scale to measure these values was validated in four studies (N = 398, 112, 465 and 111) among Dutch (religious and non-religious), Turkish-Dutch, Surinamese and Turkish groups. Values and practices were measured at the level of the individual (‘What do you value?’) and at the level of the perceived community (‘What does your community value?’). Results show that, unlike individual-level measures of individualism/collectivism, this scale has excellent reliability, differentiates between cultural groups, and has predictive validity for future (voting) behavior. This approach provides a new way of conceptualizing culture, a new measure of collectivism and new insights into the role of proximate others in shaping culture.

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