The Use of Expressive Techniques in Family Assessment and Psychotherapy
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2015, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
In his work with families, the psychotherapist often meets difficulties of communication between children and their parents. The oral communication has been disturbed by dysfunctional relational patterns. When the oral techniques of communication don`t have results anymore, the expressive techniques can be very useful. The psychotherapist can use the drawing, the storytelling, the roleplaying, the guided fantasy and the playing with puppets like mediators of family relations, by implying them in the same kind of activities. With the help of these techniques, the parents and the children enter the playing world. Thus, they become more relaxed and the emotional communication is obtained more easily. I will present in this article the methods of psychological evaluation in which I used expressive methods as ways that helped the identification of the roles and patterns of communication between family members.
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Elena Otilia Vladislav
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