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Thinking and Working Relationally: Interviewing and Constructing Hypotheses to Create Compassionate Understanding
In the initial interviews of family therapy sessions, the therapist faces the challenge of obtaining and organizing the information that is most relevant toward understanding the essential concerns that families and couples bring to therapy. This article describes the process of clinical interviewin...
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Published in: | Family process 2014-12, Vol.53 (4), p.618-639 |
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Summary: | In the initial interviews of family therapy sessions, the therapist faces the challenge of obtaining and organizing the information that is most relevant toward understanding the essential concerns that families and couples bring to therapy. This article describes the process of clinical interviewing and case conceptualization used in training family therapists at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. This approach helps the therapist bring forward, and organize, specific information into relational hypotheses, or systemic‐relational conceptualizations, that allow both family members and the therapist to understand presenting problems within their relational contexts. While always provisional, relational hypotheses help anchor the therapist in a systemic‐relational frame and provide a conceptual through‐line to guide the ongoing work of the therapy. The process of interviewing and the construction of clear and complex conceptualizations of presenting problems are illustrated through case examples.
En las entrevistas iniciales de las sesiones de terapia familiar, el terapeuta enfrenta el desafío de obtener y organizar la información más relevante para comprender los problemas fundamentales que las familias y las parejas llevan a terapia. En este artículo se describe el proceso de entrevista clínica y conceptualización de casos utilizado en la capacitación de terapeutas familiares en el Ackerman Institute for the Family. Este enfoque ayuda al terapeuta a transferir, y a organizar, información específica en hipótesis relacionales o conceptualizaciones sistémico‐ relacionales que permitan tanto a los familiares como al terapeuta comprender los motivos de consulta dentro de sus contextos relacionales. Si bien son siempre temporarias, las hipótesis relacionales ayudan a ubicar al terapeuta en un marco sistémico‐relacional y a ofrecer una línea de interacción conceptual para guiar la labor constante de la terapia. El proceso de entrevista y la construcción de conceptualizaciones claras y complejas de los motivos de consulta se describen mediante ejemplos de casos.
在家庭治疗期间的初步访谈中,治疗师面临的挑战是如何获取并组织最有助于理解参与治疗的家庭和夫妇带来的基本问题的相关信息。本文描述Ackerman 家庭研究院用于培训家庭治疗师的临床访谈过程和个案概念。这一方法帮助治疗师将具体信息提出并组织成关系假说,或系统‐关系概念,这二者让家庭成员和治疗师都能理解从关系语境呈现问题。关系假说虽然总是临时性的,却可以让治疗师扎根于系统‐关系框架,并提供一条概念直通线指导正在进行中的治疗工作。访谈过程以及建构清楚而复杂的问题呈现概念通过个案案例予以说明。
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ISSN: | 0014-7370 1545-5300 |
DOI: | 10.1111/famp.12081 |