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Parenting a child with depression emotion-focused family therapy
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotion-focused therapy.
- Family psychotherapy.
- Depression in children.
- Parenting.
- Emotion-Focused Therapy.
- Family Therapy.
- Depression--psychology.
- Parenting--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Emotion-Focused Therapy.
- Family Therapy.
- Depression--psychology.
- Parenting--psychology.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films
- Educational films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (50 min., 09 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association [2018]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- "In this session, Dr. Adele Lafrance demonstrates emotion-focused family therapy and the empty chair technique with a middle-aged, White female client presenting with concerns related to her daughter's struggle with depression and suicidality. Dr. Lafrance begins the session by asking the client to talk about her daughter's struggles and the client recounts a recent incident in which she had to bring her daughter to the emergency room and admit her into the adolescent psychiatric ward under 24-hour suicide watch. The client discusses how distressing and shocking this was and the extent to which she blames herself for not noticing her daughter's pain earlier. Dr. Lafrance empathizes with and validates the client and suggests that they work through the self-blame in this session, using the empty chair technique. She asks the client to express to herself why she feels she should continue blaming herself. She then asks the client to share these thoughts with her daughter, imagining that she is in the other chair. Next, the therapist encourages the client to embody her daughter, and to respond by exploring how her mother's self-blame negatively impacts her daughter's ability to share her pain openly. The client shares her own reluctance to end her self-blaming tendencies, because it gives her a sense of control. Dr. Lafrance concludes the session by helping the client explore and identify authentic and realistic ways in which she can move in a direction that is best for her daughter"
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- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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