wk5a what is family psychotherapy

Family Psychotherapy

Students will:

• Develop effective documentation skills for family therapy sessions *
• Develop diagnoses for clients receiving family psychotherapy *
• Evaluate the efficacy of solution-focused therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for families *
• Analyze legal and ethical implications of counseling clients with psychiatric disorders *

ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT

PLEASE Addressed each of the bullets with a subtopic, use the resources, you can use other references within last five years only- from 2014 to 2018. Please do not begin a paragraph with author name(s) (PLEASE USE parenthetical/in-text citations)

Below are two clients I observed/counseled during a family therapy session. Note: The two clients attended the same family session.

Client is a 44yr old female with Major depressive disorder who came to crisis center with suicidal thoughts after being driven out of their home by her verbally abusive husband. She is scared and overwhelmed because she is jobless and depends on her husband to cater for her. She is also depressed because her husband’s family “hates her with passion” and will not even speak to her and her husband thinks it is okay. She is anxious and depressed from verbal abuse of her husband and hatred from her husband’s family. Her husband is dismissive of her worries, verbally abuse her and always tell her to leave their house whenever they argue.

Family session held with her husband who has generalized anxiety disorder and anger management problems, gets loud, inconsiderate of others feelings when upset and says whatever he wants which have made his family isolate him most times, the isolation and his wife’s complaints makes him thinks he is a bad person and nothing will change their impression regardless of what he says or does.

Then, address in your Practicum Journal the following:

• Describe each client (without violating HIPAA regulations) and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.
• Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for each client.
• Explain whether solution-focused or cognitive behavioral therapy would be more effective with this family. Include expected outcomes based on these therapeutic approaches.
• Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling each client.
• Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

Resources/References

American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

• Standard 5F “Milieu Therapy” (pages 60-61)

Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2014). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice. New York, NY: Springer.

• Chapter 12, “Family Therapy” (Review pp. 429–468.)

Nichols, M. (2014). The essentials of family therapy (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

• Chapter 10, “Cognitive-Behavior Family Therapy” (pp. 166–189)
• Chapter 12, “Solution-Focused Therapy” (pp. 225–242)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Bond, C., Woods, K., Humphrey, N., Symes, W., & Green, L. (2013). Practitioner review: The effectiveness of solution focused brief therapy with children and families: A systematic and critical evaluation of the literature from 1990–2010. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 54(7), 707–723. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12058

Conoley, C., Graham, J., Neu, T., Craig, M., O’Pry, A., Cardin, S., & … Parker, R. (2003). Solution-focused family therapy with three aggressive and oppositional-acting children: An N=1 empirical study. Family Process, 42(3), 361–374. doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00361.x

de Castro, S., & Guterman, J. (2008). Solution-focused therapy for families coping with suicide. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 34(1), 93–106. doi:10.111/j.1752-0606.2008.00055.x

Patterson, T. (2014). A cognitive behavioral systems approach to family therapy. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 25(2), 132–144. doi:10.1080/08975353.2014.910023

Perry, A. (2014). Cognitive behavioral therapy with couples and families. Sexual & Relationship Therapy, 29(3), 366–367. doi:10.1080/14681994.2014.909024

Ramisch, J., McVicker, M., & Sahin, Z. (2009). Helping low-conflict divorced parents establish appropriate boundaries using a variation of the miracle question: An integration of solution-focused therapy and structural family therapy. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 50(7), 481–495. doi:10.1080/10502550902970587

Washington, K. T., Wittenberg-Lyles, E., Oliver, D. P., Baldwin, P. K., Tappana, J., Wright, J. H., & Demiris, G. (2014). Rethinking family caregiving: Tailoring cognitive-behavioral therapies to the hospice experience. Health & Social Work, 39(4), 244–250. doi:10.1093/hsw/hlu031

 

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