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Family Therapy

Family Therapist

Dr. Imber-Black (1988) claims that family therapist originated with the idea that an individual's problem begins to make the different kind of sense when examined in the context of the nuclear and extended family. That idea can be expanded into an even more complex meaningful system, composed of individuals, family, and larger systems, existing in a wider social context that shapes and guides mutual expectations, specific interactions, and outcomes. Hence, Imber-Black declares that the skills required in systematic assessment of and intervention with families makes the family therapist particularly suited for work at the macrosystem level. Therefore, Imber-Black comprehends that the often problematic interaction of families and larger systems requires attention from the therapist seeking to intervene with larger families while maintaining viable relationships in the broad professional community.

Goldenberg and Goldenberg (1991); and Barker (2007) concur that the field of family therapy has broadened considerably In terms of advancement and elaborated theories, greatly expanded research undertakings, and a portfolio of clinical intervention techniques. The therapist's training remain committed to offering a balanced presentation of the evolving viewpoint, perspectives, values, and intervention techniques, as well as the ethical and other professional issues that are considered to be of greatest relevance and immediacy to today's students and practitioners alike (Goldenberg and Goldenberg, 1991).

According to Goldenberg and Goldenberg (1991), the training also greatly expositions the family life cycle framework; offers a more description of major theories and a clearer description of numerous specific therapeutic techniques, and pays closer attention to integrating research findings and clinical practice. Therefore, Goldenberg and Goldenberg; and Barker (2007) agrees that to be effective in helping couples and entire families to change, the therapists' training continue to believe it essential that therapists trainees have to have some grounding in the general principles of family development and a working knowledge of system theory. Hence, Barker claims the trainees need some basic understanding of what causes dysfunction within families, and how to distinguish those families that are undergoing a temporarily destabilizing but time-limited crisis, from which they will reorganize and recover independently, from those families who are seriously dysfunctional and require therapeutic intervention.

More so, the training of therapists' trainees adopt some scientific model which help shape the boundaries of a discipline and set the agenda regarding the subject matter and methodology to be followed in seeking answers. If the individual is the unit analysis, clinical theories regarding human behavior are likely to emphasize internal events, psychic organization, intrapsychic conflict. Methodology in such a situation tends to be retrospective; explanations; tend to have a historical basis and seek our root causes from the past. Typically, they attempt to answer the question of why something occurred.