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COVID: Using the DAN Model with Couples to Increase Family Resilience
Author(s) -
Mariotti Mauro,
Muratori Greco,
Langella Achille,
Scaltriti Nicoletta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1436
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , intervention (counseling) , covid-19 , resilience (materials science) , narrative , psychological resilience , family resilience , pandemic , psychology , style (visual arts) , sociology , social psychology , history , medicine , art , physics , literature , disease , archaeology , pathology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thermodynamics
The COVID‐19 pandemic has massively impacted our society, affecting both wider systems and smaller ones alike. Families across the world have had to adapt to a new style of living, dominated by uncertainty, which is testing their resilience. Within this context, we have asked ourselves, as systemic therapists, what can be done to provide support and a sense of understanding to families. In this article, it is argued that therapeutic tools taken from a manualised intervention to promote resilience in couples can provide valuable help to families who are struggling in this difficult time. This intervention, developed at the Iscra Institute in Modena, Italy, is called Digital, Analogic, and Narrative (DAN). The tools used in the DAN model are described in this paper and their application in practice is illustrated through a case study.