As a family therapists, we may focus more on how
patterns of interaction maintain the problem rather than trying to identify the cause, as this can be experienced as blaming by some families.
Not exact matches
Birch and Cobb
maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in
interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements
of the structure at each level (
of an organism) operate in
patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).
I have advanced training in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, which is an approach that focuses on helping couples gain awareness
of and resolve the problematic
patterns of interaction that
maintain their distress.»
One
of the most empirically validated approaches within the field
of couple therapy, EFCT focuses on helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that
maintain their negative
interaction patterns.
Couples are encouraged to learn new healthy
patterns of interaction, both verbally and behaviorally, to assist them in developing and
maintaining a productive, growing, committed and satisfying relationship for life.
Family Therapy — By focusing on
patterns of interaction within the family, I provide family members with tools to create and
maintain lasting and successful relationships.
Instead
of focusing exclusively on improving specific adherence behaviors, therapy should address instrumental outcomes, such as improving family communication
patterns and reducing factors that promote and
maintain conflictual
interaction patterns specific to diabetes management (or inhibit warm and caring relationships).
Of particular importance is ameliorating ineffective parental responses to externalizing problems that may promote and
maintain argumentative
interaction patterns regarding diabetes management.