Effect of the Self-Worth Strengthening Group Psycho-Education Program Based on Systemic Therapy on the Self-Worth of Emerging Adults
AbstractThe aim of this study was to examine the effect of the self-worth strengthening group psycho-education program based on systemic therapy on the self-worth of emerging adults. The study was designed in a static group experimental design including pre and post-tests and follow-up test. The experimental (n = 12) and control groups (n = 12) consisted of a total of 24 emerging adults. The Cooper-Smith Self-esteem Scale was used to test. An eight-sessions group psycho-education was applied to the experimental group. Results revealed that group psycho-education strengthened the self-worth of emer ging adults. The...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - December 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is the association of sexual quality with relationship satisfaction really stronger when the sexual relationship is functioning poorly?
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to bring empirical evidence to the oft-quoted assumption that sexual quality has a stronger association with the overall relationship when sexuality is dysfunctional as compared to when it is optimal. Using three national samples to analyze a structural equation model, the results verified this assumption with some adaptations. There was an interaction between the association of sexual quality and the overall relationship depending on how sexually satisfied couples were in the sexuality area. However, it was when sexuality was only moderately satisfying rather than at high or low leve...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - December 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dean M. Busby,
Nathan D. Leonhardt,
Veronica Hanna ‐Walker,
Chelom E. Leavitt Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Social work practice innovation and social determinants of health: social work expertise for achieving health equity
Volume 63, Issue 1, January-June 2024 . (Source: Social Work in Health Care)
Source: Social Work in Health Care - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Suzanne MarmoVickie LeffSuk-Hee Kima Department of Family Therapy & Social Work, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USAb UNC School of Social Work, USAc School of Social Work College of Health and Human Services Northern Kentucky University, U Source Type: research
Adverse experiences in early intimate relationships and next ‐generation infant–mother attachment: findings from the ATP Generation 3 Study
AbstractChronic insecurities that emerge from adverse experiences in early intimate partner relationships in adolescence and emerging adulthood can have profound impacts on mental health and well-being. Less clear is the extent to which these experiences for parents impact subsequent relationships within and across generations. We examine the extent to which secure, dismissing, pre-occupied, and fearful intimate partner relationships in adolescence and emerging adulthood, well before becoming a parent, are associated with next-generation patterns of attachment between mothers and infant offspring. Data were drawn from a ne...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Catherine M. Olsson,
Christopher J. Greenwood,
Primrose Letcher,
Evelyn Tan,
Jessica E. Opie,
Anna Booth,
Jennifer McIntosh,
Craig A. Olsson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Initiating the dialogue between infant mental health and family therapy: a qualitative inquiry and recommendations
AbstractThis qualitative study explores infant-family mental health experts' perspectives and experiences regarding the inclusion of infants in the family therapy setting. Infant socioemotional development is relational in nature and evolves in the context of both dyadic attachment relationships and broader multi-person co-parenting systems. Given this, we sought to understand why family therapy interventions involving families with infants rarely include the infant in a triangular or family systemic approach. Interviews were completed by clinical and/or research experts whose work integrates tenets of both infant mental h...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica E. Opie,
Anna T. Booth,
Larissa Rossen,
Elisabeth Fivaz ‐Depeursinge,
Robbie Duschinsky,
Louise Newman,
Jennifer E. McIntosh,
Eliza Hartley,
Felicity Painter,
David Oppenheim,
Campbell Paul,
Antoinette Corboz‐Warnery,
Alan Carr,
D Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
‘It's a magnifying glass for your relationship’: a thematic analysis of motivations, benefits, and challenges in consensually non‐monogamous relationships
This study adds to the existing knowledge on CNM and is expected to be of interest to clinicians and researchers seeking to understand its motivations, benefits, and challenges. Relationship therapists will benefit from increased knowledge of how to work with clients interested or engaged in CNM relationships. Overall, this study supports previous findings that CNM is a viable, enjoyable, yet sometimes challenging type of relationship. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Codrington,
Daniel R. du Plooy Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Attachment Mapping Protocol (AMP): An Assessment and Treatment Tool for General Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy and Multifaith Spiritual Care
AbstractThis paper introduces the Attachment Mapping Protocol (AMP), which is an assessment and treatment tool for use in individual psychotherapy, systemic family therapy and multifaith spiritual care, using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of care. Attachment theory has a long and significant history in psychology, with an evolving relationship within the above clinical domains. A central aim of this paper will be to recognize and affirm the extension of attachment theory beyond the traditional parameters of nascent parental, guardianship bonds and individual, developmental psychology, to reveal a much broader spectru...
Source: Journal of Religion and Health - November 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Understanding Transgender and Non-binary Youth Mental Health Through the Family Resilience Framework: A Literature Review
AbstractTransgender and nonbinary (TGNB) youth are at increased risk for poor mental health. Families significantly impact the mental health of TGNB youth because of the need for acceptance and support for their gender exploration, identity, and access to gender-affirming services. We conducted a theoretically grounded literature review using the Family Resilience Framework (FRF; Walsh, 2015). The aim was to center family resilience as a guiding theory in understanding TGNB youth mental health for family intervention. The review highlighted the following: (1) belief systems for making meaning of gender, sexuality, and the ...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
‘How I wonder what you are?’: what infant observation offers family therapy
AbstractTraining in infant observation, highly valuable in the infant mental health (IMH) field, has an enormous amount to offer family therapists. These two fields of practice, both hold working with the relational world of their clients as central. As two senior family therapists who are also IMH practitioners, we invite those reading this paper to explore the possibilities inherent in undertaking infant observation training as a pathway to enriching and expanding their practice. We provide an overview of infant observation training, how this approach was conceived, and explore the benefits of honouring the subjectivity ...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wendy Bunston,
Sarah J. Jones Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Including the infant in family therapy and systemic practice: charting a new frontier
AbstractThis position paper from a core group of infant mental health academics and clinicians addresses the conspicuous underrepresentation of the infant in mainstream family therapy. Despite infants' social capacities and clear contributions to family dynamics, they remain largely overlooked within this therapeutic context. We suggest that family therapists have moral and professional responsibilities to support the participation, protection, and well-being of all family members, including the infant. Here, we emphasise the importance of including the infant in the family therapy setting. By highlighting their frequent o...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica E. Opie,
James P. McHale,
Peter Fonagy,
Alicia Lieberman,
Robbie Duschinsky,
Miri Keren,
Campbell Paul Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
A commentary on infant mental health knowledge within the training of family therapists
AbstractThis paper considers the role of academic training programs in the integration of family therapy and infant mental health (IMH) curricula. It takes the form of a conversation between senior academic staff of the Bouverie Centre in Australia and the special issue editors. Robyn Elliott and Colleen Cousins are family therapists, trauma specialists, and academics at the Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University. Robyn supervises the development and delivery of the Master of Clinical Family Therapy, accredited by the Australian Association of Family Therapy. Colleen is a psychologist and family therapist and coordinates the...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robyn Elliott,
Colleen Cousins,
Jessica Opie,
Jennifer McIntosh Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Behavioral Indicators of the Therapeutic Alliance in Relation to Discontinuation in Couple Therapy
AbstractClient discontinuation is prevalent in psychotherapy with up to half discontinuing therapy before meeting the goals of therapy (Thalmayer, 2018). When therapists work to improve the therapeutic alliance, clients are more likely to stay in treatment and chances of recovery improve (D ’Aniello et al., 2018; Escudero& Friedlander, 2017). Most of the alliance research, however, comes from client self-report of the alliance with less research based on observations of alliance behaviors that occur during a session. There has been limited research on how in-session alliance behaviors may be related to client discont...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The association between caregiver psychiatric distress and perceived barriers to behavioral health treatment participation for youth in the juvenile legal system
AbstractYouth in the juvenile legal system (JLS) evidence high rates of behavioral health concerns but struggle to access services. Given that caregivers are often tasked with helping their child to initiate and persist with services, it seems important to understand how their own well-being impacts their experiences of barriers to treatme nt participation for their child. The present study examined the link between caregiver (N = 196; 89% female) psychiatric concerns and experiences of treatment barriers among a sample of youth involved in the JLS. A cluster analysis revealed a cluster of caregivers with clinically ...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kaitlin M. Sheerin,
Shannon Williamson ‐Butler,
Alyssa Vieira,
Miyah Grant,
Kathleen A. Kemp Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Lausanne Trilogue Play: bringing together developmental and systemic perspectives in clinical settings
This article introduces the clinical, theoretical, and empirical foundations of using the LTP method with the fam ily alliance model; its use in clinical and research contexts; and the most recent advances in the field of research on mother–father–infant interactions based on the LTP situation. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Herv é Tissot,
Nicolas Favez Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Thinking three, revisited: infants, coparents, gender roles, and cultural contexts
AbstractTracing its beginnings to the mid-1990s, coparenting theory and research, guided greatly by Minuchin's structural family theory, have deepened socialisation perspectives in the field of developmental psychology. Coparenting theory has perhaps had its largest impact in the field of infant-family mental health, where empirical investigations of coparenting and family-level dynamics have dovetailed with studies of family alliances and triangles and inspired creative interventions to support families of infants and toddlers. In this article, the authors retrace some of the early accounts of coparenting and triangular i...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James P. McHale,
Kacey L. Jenkins Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
