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ADVANCES IN COACHING: FAMILY THERAPY WITH ONE PERSON
Author(s) -
McGoldrick Monica,
Carter Betty
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2001.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - coaching , intervention (counseling) , family therapy , context (archaeology) , psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , applied psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
This paper describes the process of “coaching” individuals in their efforts to change themselves in the context of their nuclear and parental family systems. Although this approach is regarded as one of the major modes of intervention in family therapy, the actual methods and techniques for intervention are not widely understood. Moreover, we have expanded the Bowen approach to address powerful cultural and family life cycle influences. The goal of coaching is to help clients define themselves proactively in relationship to others in their families without emotionally cutting off or giving in. Coaching begins by traing clients to become observers and researchers of their own role in the family and of family patterns of behavior. Coaching then moves to help them bring their behavior more in line with their deepest beliefs, even if this means upsetting family members by disobeying family “rules.”