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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
Mixed bag of good and unprofessional
When this book started out I thought it was going to be an incredible resource for learning more about family therapy and how to improve as a clinician. The first few chapters are captivating and energizing and I found myself excited but also nervous to think if I would ever be able to get to a place where I would feel I could be as direct as the author and his co-therapist were with their client.
As the book went on a number of questionable behaviors came up and I grew increasingly concerned. The first one is the writer makes note of the teenage daughter’s “perfectly formed” breasts and acknowledges that he was staring at them. Then we hear about physical abuse by a parent and the mother giving the daughter a black eye. No mention of how inappropriate this is or the required steps to report this. Eventually we get to a physical altercation between the therapist and the 11 year old boy where the therapist holds him down during a session and refuses to get off. The next chapter goes on to describe how this was a breakthrough moment.
By this point I was significantly less interested in the writer’s methods and only finished to see if there were any other universal tidbits that I felt I may want to incorporate into my practice.
Aside from the above - the author and co-therapist follow Freud’s modality and belief in therapy and that does. It match my belief in what is a good way of working with clients. I do not agree with the idea that everything is a sexual relation to a mother or a father.
When this book started out I thought it was going to be an incredible resource for learning more about family therapy and how to improve as a clinician. The first few chapters are captivating and energizing and I found myself excited but also nervous to think if I would ever be able to get to a place where I would feel I could be as direct as the author and his co-therapist were with their client.
As the book went on a number of questionable behaviors came up and I grew increasingly concerned. The first one is the writer makes note of the teenage daughter’s “perfectly formed” breasts and acknowledges that he was staring at them. Then we hear about physical abuse by a parent and the mother giving the daughter a black eye. No mention of how inappropriate this is or the required steps to report this. Eventually we get to a physical altercation between the therapist and the 11 year old boy where the therapist holds him down during a session and refuses to get off. The next chapter goes on to describe how this was a breakthrough moment.
By this point I was significantly less interested in the writer’s methods and only finished to see if there were any other universal tidbits that I felt I may want to incorporate into my practice.
Aside from the above - the author and co-therapist follow Freud’s modality and belief in therapy and that does. It match my belief in what is a good way of working with clients. I do not agree with the idea that everything is a sexual relation to a mother or a father.