Instructions

Please work from the Systemic Analysis Template [DOCX] to help you structure your reflections.

1. From your perspective as the therapist, what does each member of your TV or movie family want?
2. For each theory, using the vocabulary in your readings, provide the theory for problem formation and problem resolution. 
3. Look at a specific scene from your chosen movie or show where all family members are engaged in verbal and nonverbal interactions. Analyze this family from a systemic perspective. A few guiding questions that might be helpful in your systemic analysis are: What is each family member's role? Are you able see the relationships themselves as the client, rather than the individuals? Who has power? How are the family members attempting to get their wants and needs met? How are the other family members responding? How does this affect others' attempts to get their wants and needs met? What emotions emerge? How are these emotions expressed?

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this work, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following

• Competency 1: Analyze the underlying rationale and theory-based interventions of family therapy models.
  • Describe how the chosen fictional family's problem is analyzed and how change might occur for each of the three theories listed on the provided template.
• Competency 2: Evaluate the important theoretical trends, issues, and controversies in the field of marital, couple, and family therapy.
  • Describe what each member of the chosen family wants from the perspective of a therapist.
• Competency 3: Analyze systems-based and theory-specific strategies for the practice of marital, couple, and family therapy.
  • Analyze a scene from the chosen family's movie or show from a systemic perspective.
  • Explain each model’s overview of the theory of problem formation and the theory of problem resolution