For your initial post, complete the following:
Describe the theory used by the therapist in two different interventions in the video. For example, what was something she did that was informed by ideas
found in Structural Therapy? Or Bowen Therapy? Or Narrative Therapy, etc.?
Reflecting on the film and the past 14 weeks, describe your comfort level with the idea of seeing families in order to help certain individuals. What do you feel
you are now capable of doing? What do you feel you want to know more about in order to work more effectively with families?
Thinking back to the Widener Social Work Shared Case Download Widener Social Work Shared Case family and picking one of the theories we studied in this
class, what is an intervention that you now believe would help Anita and her family?
Family Secrets: Implications for Theory and Therapy by Evan Imber-Black (Links to an external site.)
Most families have secrets, handed down from generation to generation like “booby-trapped heirlooms” waiting to explode. Secrets have far-reaching
implications for families, setting the stage for a tense emotional climate of guardedness, anger, and reactivity. In this illuminating video, Evan Imber-Black, an
expert on rituals, larger systems, and family secrets, speaks to viewers about the implications of secrets, and presents techniques for ushering families
through the process of identifying, understanding, and resolving secrets. Imber-Black leads a moving series of reenacted family therapy sessions to illustrate
the important stages of helping families to uncover their shrouded pasts.
Video
https://www-psychotherapy-net.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/stream/widener/video?vid=021