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Solution Focused Narrative Therapy with a Mother and Daughter: Resolving Conflict and Finding Connection

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Diana Chung works in a family session featuring a mother–daughter duo. Patricia is a bilingual, 35-year-old, first-generation Mexican American. Her daughter Jessica was born in Mexico and immigrated with Patricia at 1 year of age. Patricia and her husband Jose subscribe to traditional values, such as family unity, collectivism, and respect towards adults. Jessica is often left in charge of caring for younger siblings while her mother and stepfather work long hours to provide for the four children in the blended family. In addition, Jessica helps to serve as a linguistic and cultural broker for the parents at times. Jessica feels overwhelmed with the tasks and pressures asked of her. Her grades have been falling in the past semester, as conflict in the home has increased. She has been skipping school and has been missing out on class time. Her mother is concerned about her irritability and short patience with family members, isolation from the family, and anger outbursts with siblings and adults. Patricia tends to minimize the pressures placed on Jessica. She is suspicious of her daughter's activities with friends and frequently checks on her and prevents her from going out because of her own fears. Patricia feels distressed in disciplining her daughter and resorts to yelling and threats of physical discipline. The family entered therapy via a referral from the daughter's school counselor for spotty attendance, a drop in grades, and a comment made in passing that “nobody gets me.” Chung uses a strength-based, narrative, and solution-focused orientation in this session. The family comes in with much tension following an incident over the weekend, and Chung uses open-ended questions, unconditional positive regard, and reflective listening to create a calm environment. Chung also uses externalizing language throughout the session to reinforce the idea that problems are separate from the people. She asks how suspicion and fear fit into how they see their relationship, and Patricia and Jessica explore their preferred identities. At the end of the session, Chung helps to facilitate guidelines to maintain a more consistent connection and availability between mother and daughter. Diana Chung is a marriage and family therapy therapist practicing in a community-based children's hospital program for children, teens, and their families. The majority of her clinical experience has been with youth in clinic and school settings. She also provides clinical supervision to student therapists in a community clinic. She operates from a postmodern perspective, with a strong emphasis on cultural and contextual factors. She gravitates around narrative and solution-focused theory, while drawing tools from a variety of models. She identifies as a multilingual/multicultural Chinese American person, with the bulk of her clinical work with Mexican families in English and Spanish.

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