Social Constructionist Inquiry in Family Therapy with Chinese Americans

Autor:	Mary Anna Domokos-Cheng Ham, Shi-Jiuan Wu, Linda E. Enders
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Family therapy Sociology and Political Science Interview Intervention (counseling) Pedagogy Perspective (graphical) Ethnography Context (language use) Development Psychology Social constructionism Social psychology Chinese americans
Zdroj:	Journal of Family Social Work. 2:111-128
ISSN:	1540-4072 1052-2158
DOI:	10.1300/j039v02n02_02
Popis:	Social Constructionist inquiry offers a perspective for understanding relationships among Chinese American family members, and a framework for carrying out therapeutic strategies. Traditionally, clinicians worked with Chinese families from a logical-positivist paradigm. The paradigm emphasizes absolute knowledge, therapist as expert, deficits in the family and change due to therapeutic intervention. Social constructionist inquiry emphasizes how the family uses language in talking about a situation. It also is concerned with evolution of the family's story, therapist as collaborator, family strengths and change due to a revision in the family's story about its experience. Ethnography and Multivocal Ethnography, grounded in social constructionist inquiry, are two approaches emphasizing interviewing questions in creating a context where families can tell their stories and work to revise the way experience is understood and discussed. The emphasis is not on the family being the problem, but how the f...
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