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A 5 page research paper that compares and contrasts solution and problem-focused family therapy. The writer describes each model of therapy and then discusses them in relation to a case study. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Freud gave way to in the 1950s to problem-focused therapy that placed new focus on the present and the "here and now" (Bertolino, 2003). This was followed in the late
1970s and early 1980s to solution-focused therapy, which acknowledges the strengths of clients in determining how best to cope with their problems (Bertolino, 2003). The following examination of these two
therapy models demonstrates their differences by contrasting how they might be applied to the same clinical situation of aiding an at-risk family. In the 1950s and 60s, family therapy
experienced a dramatic change of paradigm, as the emphasis shifted from an orientation that focused on the clients past towards a more present-thinking perspective (McCollum, Stith, and Rosen, 2001). In
this problem-focused model, the therapist would concentrate on manner in which a client handled problems in the present and what behaviors appeared t o maintain those problems (McCollum, Stith and
Rosen, 2001). For family therapists, at this time, the term "intra-psychic" was replaced by "interactional," that is, the "study of relational systems" (Bertolino, 2003). Problems were defined as existing within
small systems and between people as opposed to within individuals (that is, "intra-psychic," which was the Freudian approach) (Bertolino, 2003). Family therapists believed that anti-social behavior on the part of
children or adolescents was a direct result of dysfunctional aspects of family relationships (Bertolino, 2003). Consequently, they theorized that these familial relationships could be understood by studying such things as
"family structure, hierarchy, rules, roles and boundaries" (Bertolino, 2003). Clinicians, at this time, assumed the responsibility for changing dysfunctional family patterns by designing interventions that altered or interrupted patterns of
action and interaction between family members. In the 1970s and 80s, family therapists began to realize that their own personal biases affected the manner in which they related
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