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Section 4: Symbolic Experiential Therapy and Treatment Planning

The model that will be studied in this Section is Carl Whitaker’s model of Symbolic Experiential Family Therapy. Whitaker does attend to intergenerational family interactions, but his focus is more on the experience of conducting therapy with whole families. Whitaker is still often referred to as “a giant in the field,” and it can be challenging to separate what he has taught the profession about the importance of family metaphors from who he was as a person. His ability to be crazy with families helped them to be less rigid and more likely to understand that there is value in emotionality, which may even be irrational. Feelings are facts to be honored.

Required Reading:
Napier, G. & Whitaker, C. (1988): The Family Crucible

Gehart, D.R, & Tuttle, A.R. (2003): Chapter 7

Your goal is to introduce the director and staff of clinical therapists to Experiential Family Therapy and to your work as a symbolic-experiential therapist. What would be the most important aspects of your work to highlight? How could you ‘show’ your audience how an SET experience with you might look and feel? How appropriate would this approach be for the diversity of clients who attend the clinic? Your PowerPoint presentation should include an outline of a typical treatment plan you would use with this model.

Assignment Outcomes
Integrate systems theory and systemic thinking into the process of treatment planning.
Synthesize specific concepts of the key traditional and intergenerational models of therapy.
Critique traditional and intergenerational models of therapy in the professional literature.
Develop a comprehensive presentation of a traditional or intergenerational model of family therapy.
Evaluate the degree to which traditional and intergenerational models of family therapy address issues of diversity including specifically age, cultural, spiritual, racial, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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