Cross-Cultural Responsiveness & Systemic Therapy by Shruti Singh Poulsen & Robert Allan

Author:Shruti Singh Poulsen & Robert Allan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Client as a Factor

The genogram technique of data collection and exploration is one that meets the parameters of good (“best”) clinical practice, i.e., a common factors lens. Genograms allow for an expanded understanding of clients’ lived experiences, cultural contexts, and familial and relational contexts; thus, even the most “barebones” genogram can often provide a great deal of insight and information regarding the lives and contexts of our clients, of what they are experiencing the other 167 h of the week that they are not in one’s therapy office. It is an invaluable tool in obtaining a rich, in-depth understanding of client factors, characteristics, resources, and experiences. I find that when I use the genogram as a tool to gather information about a client and their contexts and what is important to them in their systems, I am much more likely to be mindful about the impact of their larger systemic contexts, ones such as racism, heterosexism, and other “isms” that are often “invisible” in the therapy setting, but very much part of clients’ lived experiences and realities that are having an impact on what the client reports as their “presenting problem.” Additionally, attunement to the details of the genogram allows me to facilitate clients’ access to resources, supports, strengths, and resilience in themselves as individual systems and in their larger systems.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.