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The application of Milan systemic family therapy in a training context: A grounded theory study
Abstract
The grounded theory approach (Strauss & Corbin, 1990) was used to develop a formative theory of the change process experienced by a family, counselor, and reflecting team engaged in Milan systemic family therapy as practiced in a counselor-training context. Prior to the first and after each session, participants were interviewed about their experiences of the counseling process. Counseling sessions, team discussion breaks, and post-session team debriefings were observed and the contents were transcribed and analyzed along with the counselor's and team's journals. Over a five-month period, the family, counselor, and reflecting team discovered their own personal meanings of the Milan experience. Participants reported numerous crises that had implications for their emerging interactions. For the counselor and reflecting team, in particular, the boundaries of the emerging system became inclusive. Initially, they defined the system as including the changing meanings and interactions between family members. But, as a result of their participation in the counseling process, their perceptions broadened to include the reciprocal influences and parallel processes occurring between the family, counselor, and team despite the physical barrier of the one-way mirror. For each participant, the Milan experience was a discovery of connections and relationships.
Subject Area
Academic guidance counseling|Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|Psychotherapy
Recommended Citation
Tanji, Joy M, "The application of Milan systemic family therapy in a training context: A grounded theory study" (1995). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9600758.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9600758