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Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Using Video Feedback in Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Reimers Sigurd
Publication year - 2001
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/j.1467-8438.2001.tb00465.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychology , relevance (law) , psychotherapist , power (physics) , video feedback , project commissioning , publishing , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
Video recordings have been used for many years in family therapy for supervisory or therapist review purposes, but have usually had little direct relevance for clients. This article describes how video recordings can be used jointly by therapist and family to discuss episodes and themes in the sessions, rather like the current use of reflecting teams. The danger of the abuse of power in video feedback is also discussed — a danger which is present in all forms of therapy, however ‘user friendly’ they aim to be.