|
Issues in Illness: Family therapy
approaches to illness
This course offers an overview of theoretical approaches and
applications in working with ill people and their families.
The course is structured in 4 three hour workshops which can
be taken in 2 days or in half days over a period of some
weeks.
Workshop 1.
Definitions and types of illness, mental and physicalm
actue, chronic. Relevant theorectical paradigms,
narratives, Bowenian, loss and grief, time and
timelessness, witnessing.
Workshop 2.
Application: working with genograms and hypothesising with
families
Workshop 3.
Theory: Structural and systemic changes in families with
an ill member. Circular patterns and questions.
Workshop 4.
Application: Grief paradigm, triangulation, systemic
approach using circular patterns and questions
This course was run with very positive feedback. The course
can be adapted to particular groups in th ecomunity, such as:
-
Workers in the Intellectual Disability field
-
Health practitioners, GPs and nurses
-
Therapists interested in illness issues
-
Multidisciplinary groups working with specific illnesses
For further information regarding the course please
contact the directors.
miriamtisher@almafamilytherapy.com
liviajackson@almafamilytherapy.com
|
