Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Contextual Family Therapy

Developed by        -       Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy

It is a trans generational family therapy and an approach to individual psychotherapy


Overview
Nagy is perhaps best known for developing the contextual approach to family therapy, which emphasizes the ethical dimension of family development. Based on the psychodynamic model, contextual therapy accentuates the need for ethical principles to be an integral part of the therapeutic process. Nagy believes that trust, loyalty, and mutual support are the key elements that underlie family relationships and hold families together, and that symptoms develop when a lack of caring and liability result in a breakdown of trust in relationships

Reason for dysfunction in family - breakdown in trustworthiness hence the goal of the therapy is to develop a sense of fairness among family members by promoting mutual understanding and trust

Key Concepts
1. loyalties
2. egacies
3. entitlements
4. ledger
5. revolving state
6. relational ethics
7. Rejunction




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