Prevention in family services : approaches to family wellness / edited by David R. Mace.
- Date:
- [1983], ©1983
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Prevention in family services : approaches to family wellness / edited by David R. Mace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[238] GRÒWTH-PROMOTING FAMILY THERAPY therapist develops his or her own model for conducting well-family sessions. The model just described has been used in my practice and training center over the past 10 years. A MODEL FOR GROWTH-PROMOTING FAMILY THERAPY There are many models of family therapy that could be adapted to conceptualizing and working with families where growth promotion is the goal. The following is a cubistic or four-level model integrating the elements of family systems theory and techniques for change. LEVELS The growth-promoting family therapist can enter the family system at any organizational level: individual, the couple, the family, the extended family or even a wider network of people involved. The Dell family again provides a good example: Following the assessment session with the Dell family a contract for four family enhancement sessions was made for the whole family. It was also agreed that as a family they would join a four week family enrichment workshop. This would provide a context for some subsystem work with the adolescents in groups of their peers and parents with other parents. Harry and Bertha also agreed to partici¬ pate in a marriage enrichment weekend coming up in the future. Although it was not agreed upon at the start, a fifth session took place in which Bertha's parents were included in order to do some boundary establishment work between the three generations. Since Bertha's parents lived near, it soon became obvious that they were much a part of the dynamics occurring in the Dell family. Although no formal network therapy took place, the family was encouraged to use their informal network to achieve some of their growth goals. With the Dells, therapy took place at all levels of family organization, although it could just as well have taken place at only one or two. Growth promotion therapy can intervene at any and all organizational levels.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18037604_0241.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
