Personzentrierte Familientherapie

Abstract

Person-centered family therapy. This article provides theoretical and practical reflections of person-centered family therapy. After a short overview of german and american approaches to person-centered family therapy, it will be shown on the basis of a research study, that person-centered counselors and therapists experience a lack of person-centered theory for their field of work with families. The authors present framework conditions that are very fundamental in family theory by contrast to individual therapy: the transparency of structures, the context of counseling, the setting and the co-therapy. Family therapy demands a more practical and far-reaching procedure than what Rogers said about conditions. A possible approach could be what the authors developed: the „Differential Interventions“. They include revealing the consequences of behavior, indirect communication, setting of limits and therapeutic creation of relationship with the children and adolescents.