Your Chosen Model of Family Therapy
This week, you will complete and submit the Signature Assignment for the course. It provides you with the opportunity to bring together all that you have prepared related to your chosen model of therapy. You will use last weeks annotated outline as a guide, along with the texts and other learning materials as content resources. This effort will help you to describe your chosen model of therapy. It is an opportunity to lay the foundation for adopting a model of therapy that will, over time, become your own. Finding your model is a very personal process. Hopefully, as you have gone through MFT-5104 and this course, you have thought about how you believe changes happen, what attracts you to each model, and what about each model is a fit for you and what is not. Some people immediately know what model fits them. Others try several different models during their course work and even into their practicum and internship. Your clinical work will benefit from having one model that you study very deeply and is the foundation of your work. From that foundation, you can draw interventions from other approaches that you can use from the perspective of your approach. This week, you will choose one of the postmodern models and write about it as your model. You will deepen your knowledge of that model by identifying additional resources and integrating what you have learned. You will identify how the model fits you, and you will apply it to a client case. This is an important step in identifying your personal model. Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments. Using the annotated outline you developed in Week 10, articulate the following information in a comprehensive report. Consider using the following headings to structure your report. Please select one model from the following approaches: Postmodern Models: Solution-focused (de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg) Solution-oriented (Bill OHanlon*) Ericksonian (Milton Erickson*) Narrative (Michael White and David Epston) Collaborative (Harlene Anderson) Model Description Provide the context of the model. Include key theorists, model formation, connection to systems theory, and model assumptions (including a description of how change occurs). Explain the role of the therapist in facilitating change. Determine legal and ethical considerations unique to the model. Explain which client population/presenting problems this model would work for and where it would not be appropriate. Be sure to support this with 2-3 research articles form your Week 10 annotated outline. Model Fit Document the strengths you have that will fit well with this model. Indicate personal areas of improvement that will make this model a better fit for you. Include ways that you will watch for bias and potential misuse of power. Feel free to revisit the presentation that you constructed in Week 3. Recovery Model and (insert your model here) Articulate the principles or concepts from the mental health recovery model that fit with your personal model. Model Application Create a brief case example. You can base your family system on a movie that you have seen, a family you know, your own family, or your imagination. Describe the family system, including important information about their context (this will include aspects of their culture, belief systems, etc.) and presenting problem(s). This section should be brief – a paragraph or so. Include assessment strategies related to the model. Recommend a treatment plan based on your model specific for the family system you described above. Support your report with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included. Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and references pages Your report should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. An Introduction to MFT Systems Theory and Foundational Models External Learning Tool The model that I prefer is the Solution-Focused Model (de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg). You may need to ask me multiple questions to complete this just send me a list and I will have it for you.
