COUN 527 Therapy Goals

Liberation Psychlogy

This therapy promotes social justice through integration of indigenous cultural healing and emancipatory approaches into mainstream psychotherapy

Intergenerational Family Therapy

This therapy’s goals include increasing each person’s level of differentiation and to reduce emotional reactivity to chronic anxiety

Structural Family Therapy

This therapy’s goal is to clear the boundaries between all subsystems of the family, and to have distinction between marital/couple subsystem and parental subsystem. The distinction of boundaries also includes severing cross-generation coalitions

CBT

This therapy’s goal is to examine how family members reinforce each other’s behaviors, symptoms, and relational patterns, especially through examining parental training. Goal setting is another key aspect of therapy

Minfdulness

This therapy’s goal is to enable clients to have the ability to change the ways they relate to or view their problems through the acceptance of all emotions and thoughts

Narrative Therapy

This therapy’s goal is to enact increase a client’s sense of agency and help them enact their preferred realities and identities through the identifying the problem away from the person and the client away from dominant narratives

Feminist Therapy

The ultimate goal of this therapy is to promote and establish egalitarian relationships: respect, caring, nurturing, the exercise of choice, and flexibility. This therapy also wants to help families analyze the the sex-role socialization of the family and what messages and beliefs a family carries