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Lockdown Learnings: No Longer the Mirrored Room
Author(s) -
BurgessManning Julie
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.1439
Subject(s) - aotearoa , levelling , family therapy , covid-19 , field (mathematics) , psychology , power (physics) , psychotherapist , sociology , public relations , medicine , political science , gender studies , geography , physics , cartography , disease , mathematics , pathology , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics
During the COVID‐19 lockdown in Aotearoa/New Zealand, a discussion panel was convened comprising of family therapy students and experienced family therapists to investigate the effects of the use of online digital mediums for family therapy. This article discusses the learnings from that panel. It seems that the use of a screen can change the power dynamic between therapist and client family, perhaps levelling the field slightly and resulting in implications for the therapeutic relationship. Suggestions for practice are given and the situation is likened to that of the ‘mirrored room’ proposed by Hare‐Mustin (1994).