Gill's Psychodynamic Case Study

Family is something that plays a tremendous role in our life. Even though the structure of families has changed over the years, it is important to acknowledge that there many families out there whether they are traditional families, nuclear family, stepfamilies or others which tend to have different types of problems in their families. Therefore, many families attempt to go to family therapy in order for them to obtain help in solving the different types of issues they might have at home. As stated in the book Family Therapy by Michael P. Nichols (2013), “The power of family therapy derives from bringing parents and children together to transform their interaction… What keeps people stuck in their inability to see their own participation in the problems that plague them. With eyes fixed firmly on what recalcitrant others are doing, it’s hard for most people to see the patterns that bind them together. The family therapist’s job is to give them a wake-up call” (2013).

The history of Psychodynamic psychology originated with Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century. Freud proposed a psychodynamic theory to which personality consists of the id. The Id is present at birth and it resides in the world of unconsciousness. Freud also said that the unconscious is also a place where human instinctual biological drives reside. The drives direct our behaviour towards choices that promise to satisfy our basic human needs. The drives ensure our survival like drinking water and eating food, the desire for reproduction and the necessity for aggression.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (King, Jr., n.d). When Martin Luther King Jr. made that statement he was not talking about the family unit, yet it is appropriate. A family can be a true blessing, although there are some people that believe their family is their curse. As a future therapist, I believe Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy (CBFT), will be the approach I use to assist family mend their behavior to live in a cohesive environment together. There is an educational component in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that supports the client(s) long after his/her sessions have ended, which leads to long term benefits and results. That is the actual learning to re-think his/her irrational behavior and beliefs.

ID, ego and superego. He said you were born with ID which was in your

Firstly I'm going to evaluate Psychodynamic Psychology as this is one that I have previous knowledge about. First founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) an Austrian Psychologist who linked childhood experience with how it influences us as adults. He described that experiencing something in childhood resulted in similar behaviour as an adult. The Psychodynamic approach believes we have drives which can determine our behaviour and that these drives are shaped in childhood and this is where we develop our personality. The strengths to this approach is that if we get to the core of the problem psychologically and tackle the memory linked to the behaviour, it may change the way we interpret memory into the certain behaviour.

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy employed to assist members of a family in improving communication systems, conflict resolution, and to help the family to deal with certain problems that manifest in the behavior of members. In most cases, deviance in a family member is an indication of underlying family dysfunctions. This paper looks the counselling procedure that can be applied to help the Kline family solve their problems. It answers certain questions including those of the expected challenges during therapy and ways of dealing with the challenges.

My first assumption of family therapy was to involve the parents and the individual that had the problem. This book explored further what it

The family is made up of five people: Claudia, the IP; Carolyn, mother; Laura, the sister; Don, the brother; and David, the father. The family is coming into therapy because there have been mounting concerns about Claudia and her behavior—acting out, staying out late, some fairly typical teenage stuff. For the purpose of this paper, I will be starting at the beginning where the family is first coming into therapy. I will first school that I will apply is Structural Family Therapy and the second school is Bowen Family Therapy.

Counseling would provide Ryan with ways to use effective communication skills with his family members. For example, since he views his sister as an irritant, this is an area the therapist might probe to find out if they have common interests in order to determine if they could spend time doing activities they both might enjoy while working on their relationship, same as for with his mother. As the case manager, I would also work with Ryan to practice effective communication skills by demonstrating the proper way to effective communicate with a younger sibling or parent, and allow Ryan an opportunity to role play effective communication techniques. Counseling may also allow him to verbalize his feelings and reduce the verbal and physical

therapy aims to improve family relations, and the family is encouraged to become a type of

Entire family or some of the family members were treated, the therapists will try to explain how positively should behave and resolve family disputes and make stronger communication. They will try to combine the family by grouping them on the principle of the family system. If one member changes the other would also change their behavior that might collapse the entire

Approaches to Family Therapy: Minuchin, Haley, Bowen, & Whitaker Treating families in therapy can be a complex undertaking for a therapist, as they are dealing not only with a group of individuals but also with an overall system. Throughout history several key theorists have attempted to demystify the challenges families face and construct approaches to treatment. However, there have been key similarities and differences among the theoretical orientations along the way. While some have simply broadened or expanded from existing theories, others have stood in stark

Therefore, this therapy can be used to help families with schizophrenic members, violent temperaments, uncontrolled substance or alcohol abuse, chronic problems (that affect all members), and those who want to improve relationship skills. Its goal is to build a supportive collaboration between counselor and the family and teaches skill-building techniques to help families gain control over their circumstances. Strength and resiliency are taught to families dealing with chronic problems (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p.415). Psychoeducation does follow some of the techniques used by traditional treatments, such as cooperating with the family, acquiring the trust of its members, remaining unbiased, and figuring out the best methods to have positive conclusions. In summary, the program helps families learn problem-solving approaches that will help them have prosperous marital or parent-child relationships (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p.416).

Freud links this “wet bed” to her masturbation, claiming that she wanted her father, and in subsequent dreams Herr K., to save her from her masturbation by giving her true gratification. He also linked this want for sexual satisfaction to the “jewel box” that Dora wishes to keep from getting “wet” when the fire is put out. She wants to be sexually satisfied but cannot be, since the men she loves cannot fulfill her needs due to guilt or disgust, and so is stuck in the stage of clitoral sexual gratification. She has not been able to mature to vaginal sexual gratification and so suffers from sexual repression. According to Owen Flanagan’s critic of Freud’s ideas of femininity and masculinity, Freud says, “[a]long with the abandonment of clitoral

According to (Rathgeber 1990) “social feminist have identified the social construction of production and reproduction as the basis of women’s oppression and have focused attention on the social relations of gender, questioning the validity of roles that have been ascribed to both women and men in different societies”. In many societies women have been systematically instilled to be inferior to men and have been assigned secondary role. GAD emerged to examine these social constructions. (Parpart et.al 2000) “State that GAD approach argued that women’s status in society is deeply affected by their material conditions of life and by their position in the national, reginal and global economies, further more women are deeply affected by the nature of patriarchal power in their societies at the national, community and household levels”. This however differ in different societies as both patriarchal authority and women’s material conditions are maintained by the accepted norms and values that define women’s and men’s role in society.