Positive Family and Marital Therapy
摘要
Positive Family Therapy (PFT) is a set of psychotherapy methods aimed at addressing family conflicts based on Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy concepts and principles. Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (PPT) incorporated insights from four main schools: psychodynamic, existentialist-humanistic, behaviorist, and trans-cultural therapy. PFT’s distinctive feature is that it can use both the positive and the negative aspects of the family, along with current psycho-social norms, as the source for treatment. During the therapy process, the Balance Model, the 5-Stage Process, and the Differentiation Analysis Inventory (DAI), all tools developed under Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy principles, along with selected stories, are applied to work with couples and families. This chapter discusses these techniques along with case examples of their application.