Family Wants and Needs
From your perspective as the therapist, what does each member of your TV or movie family
want?
Analyze a Problem Using Multiple Theories
For each theory listed here, using the vocabulary in your readings, describe how to analyze a
problem, and how change might occur.
Experiential Analysis
(Include your experiential analysis here.)
Emotion-Focused Analysis
(Include your emotion-focused analysis here.)
Internal Family Systems Analysis
(Include your internal family systems analysis here.)
Systemic Analysis
Look at a specific scene from your chosen movie or show where all family members are engaged in verbal and nonverbal interactions. Analyze this family from a systemic perspective.
A few guiding questions that might be helpful in your systemic analysis are: What is each family your perspective as the therapist, what does each member of your TV or movie family want?
For each theory, using the vocabulary in your readings, describe how the problem is analyzed, and how change might occur.
Look at a specific scene from your chosen movie or show where all family members are engaged in verbal and nonverbal interactions. Analyze this family from a systemic perspective. A few guiding questions that might be helpful in your systemic analysis are: What is each family member’s role? Are you able see the relationships themselves as the client, rather than the individuals? Who has power? How are the family members attempting to get their wants and needs met? How are the other family members responding? How does this affect others’ attempts to get their wants and needs met? What emotions emerge? How are these emotions expressed?
Analyze the underlying rationale and theory-based interventions of family therapy models.
Describe how the chosen fictional family’s problem is analyzed and how change might occur for each of the three theories listed on the provided div.
Competency 2: Evaluate the important theoretical trends, issues, and controversies in the field of marital, couple, and family therapy.
Describe what each member of the chosen family wants from the perspective of a therapist.
Competency 3: Analyze systems-based and theory-specific strategies for the practice of marital, couple, and family therapy.
Analyze a scene from the chosen family’s movie or show from a systemic perspective.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively through the appropriate application of grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing mechanics, and professional tone, while adhering to APA formatting and style.
Respond to each section within the div, with at least six total pages of written response.
Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, mechanics, and citation
Describe what each member of the chosen family wants from the perspective of a therapist.
Describe how the chosen fictional family’s problem is analyzed and how change might occur for each of the three theories listed on the provided template.
Analyze a scene from the chosen family’s movie or show from a systemic perspective.
Respond to each section within the template, with at least six total pages of written response.
