Solution Focused Psychotherapy with Families Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient

Bonjean, M

doi:10.1300/j287v05n01_15

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“…Numerous authors have promoted the value of family therapy in a dementia context while also acknowledging that research on many aspects of this subject was either missing or inadequate to generate a robust evidence base (Benbow et al, 1993(Benbow et al, , 2014Curtis & Dixon, 2005;Edwards et al, 2018;Goncalves-Pereira & Sampaio, 2011;Jeffery, 2019;Koethe et al, 2014;Roper-Hall, 2008). In a dementia context, SFTs have been reported to help with supporting adaptation to role changes (Bonjean, 1989;Wolinsky, 1985), relationship difficulties (Villemaire et al, 1987), consideration of wider influences (Vernooij-Dassen et al, 2010), stress reduction (Johannsen & Fischer-Johannsen, 2011), crisis situations and difficult care decisions (Cantegreil-Kallen & Rigaud, 2009), adapting to diagnosis, marital adjustment, depression and providing wider systemic benefits (Zahn, 2015).…”

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Systemic family therapists and dementia: A constructivist grounded theory study

Ball

2024

Journal of Family Therapy

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This article presents research that explored the ways that systemic and family therapists might approach the support of families living with dementia. A constructivist grounded theory methodology was used to interpret interviews with four systemic family therapists working in the United Kingdom. All participants had professional and/or lived experience of dementia. Transcript analysis and theoretical sampling led to the development of five categories, each related to different aspects of considering systemic therapy in a dementia context. These categories were further developed into a ‘systemically informed dementia orienteering’ conceptual framework, which is presented in this paper as a learning resource. Findings are related to existing literature, and recommendations for future research are made.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Systemic family therapists and dementia: A constructivist grounded theory study

Ball

2024

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Even if a person with dementia forgets the content of the meeting, she or he may well recall being included and taken seriously. Indeed, conjoint meetings can reduce the isolation considered by Ernst et al (1978) to be so devastating to psychological functioning, and family therapy proponents are likely to see the interaction with and around an older adult with dementia as crucial in understanding a family's systemic functioning (Bonjean, 1987).…”

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Working with older adults and their families – a review

Richardson¹,

Gilleard²,

Lieberman³

et al. 1994

Journal of Family Therapy

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This paper discusses family work with older adults by exploring some of the related literature published since Herr and Weakland's work in 1979, and compares psychoeducational and systems-based approaches to work with later life families. Issues of bias and omissions in the existing literature, and the definition of family therapy with this client group are raised. Areas for future research are indicated.

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“…Bonjean (1989) describes how the focus is initially on the older adult but later shifts to take in the whole family, and how its members adapt to the dependence, deterioration and loss of a progressive dementing illness while protecting individual family members' development. She sees the dilemmas of care as reawakening old family conflicts.…”

Section: Possible Models Of Family Therapymentioning

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“…This solution-focused systemic strategic family therapy may be flexible enough to allow the needs of all family members to be heard and considered, and also takes into account the developmental and relationship context (Bonjean, 1989). Bonjean (1989) describes how the focus is initially on the older adult but later shifts to take in the whole family, and how its members adapt to the dependence, deterioration and loss of a progressive dementing illness while protecting individual family members' development. She sees the dilemmas of care as reawakening old family conflicts.…”

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Family therapy and dementia: Review and clinical experience

Benbow

Marriott

Morley

et al. 1993

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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SUMMARYFamily therapy techniques have, until recently, had little impact on the development of old age psychiatry and the services provided. The literature on family therapy in relation to people with dementia and their families is reviewed and illustrated with results from a study of families coping with dementia who attended the York House Family Clinic. Similar therapeutic techniques were used with families coping with dementia as with those coping with other mental illnesses in later life, but some differences were found in the areas of discussion during sessions. Families coping with dementia were seen for fewer sessions, but more family members were present per session and sons and daughters-in-law were more likely to attend. The literature and various hypotheses which might explain these differences are presented and discussed. Further work in this area is needed, but our findings suggest that family therapy can be useful in work with dementia sufferers and their families, and can be offered within an old age psychiatry service.

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Solution Focused Psychotherapy with Families Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Systemic family therapists and dementia: A constructivist grounded theory study

Systemic family therapists and dementia: A constructivist grounded theory study

Working with older adults and their families – a review

Family therapy and dementia: Review and clinical experience

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