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The Symbolic Drawing of the Family Life Space
Author(s) -
GEDDES MICHAEL,
MEDWAY JOAN
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00219.x
Subject(s) - nonverbal communication , modalities , symbolic communication , space (punctuation) , task (project management) , psychology , computer science , intervention (counseling) , the symbolic , human–computer interaction , communication , social psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , linguistics , psychotherapist , social science , engineering , philosophy , systems engineering , psychiatry , operating system
Several innovative techniques have been developed in the last ten years for facilitating meaningful communication and interaction among family members. These techniques serve the purpose of highlighting relatively stable patterns of verbal and nonverbal communication among family members and bring to the surface various aspects of familial structure, thereby illuminating focal points for intervention. The purpose of the present article is to describe the technique of the Symbolic Drawing of the Family Life Space, to compare this technique with other techniques for facilitating communication and interaction among family members, and to illustrate the clinical use of this technique with case examples. In reviewing the literature, the authors extracted two types of symbolic and interactive procedures, which may be conveniently divided into those that tend to be task‐centered and those that tend to be expressive modalities.