What Works: The Essentials of Successful Team Therapy

Amendt, John H.; Bryant, Rebecca; Kleckner, Trudy; Wall, Mark D.

doi:10.1521/jsst.1987.6.3.65

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“…For example, Boscolo and Cecchin (1982) point to the importance of team members sharing the same epistemological model. Amendt et al (1987) argue that successful teams share a number of common characteristics which they name 'unities'. They state that successful teams have unity of objective and process, known ways of successfully managing conflicts and differences, as well as unity in terms of theoretical models and practice; in other words, what amounts to an agreed set of rules and roles within the team that achieves a benign balance between individual and group needs and functions.…”

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Looking again at the team dimension in systemic psychotherapy: is attending to group process a critical context for practice?

Clarke¹,

Rowan

2008

Journal of Family Therapy

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Team work and group supervision are essential features of the systemic model, yet there is surprisingly little literature on the impact of group process on both group supervision and team‐based therapy. Beginning with two vignettes which evoke some aspects of group process and are based on the personal experiences of the authors, this paper will review the literature on working in teams from within a systemic perspective.1Early models of teams and group processes within the literature will be criticized for their over‐reliance on technique; more recent models for their over‐reliance on collaboration. It will be argued that some systemic approaches to understanding teams can lead to group process issues becoming marginalized and covert, and therefore inevitably more difficult to address. However, viewing supervision groups as ‘social constructions’ is seen as a position offering more possibilities and, it will be argued, opens a pathway to embracing ideas from within psychoanalytic thinking on group process. Here ideas on group functioning, including the theories of, for example, Foulkes and Bion will be briefly reviewed and their implications for helping both supervisors and teams conceptualize group process discussed.

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Looking again at the team dimension in systemic psychotherapy: is attending to group process a critical context for practice?

Clarke¹,

Rowan

2008

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…This evolution seemed to be linked to the increasingly recognized legitimacy of family therapy, to our team adopting a reflecting model of practice and to the team entering a stable period of peer composition. The significance of the latter may be that internal team conflict around status (Procter and Stephens, 1984;Amendt et al, 1987;Selvini and Palazzoli, 1991) declined when psychiatric colleagues began to concentrate on management functions rather than choosing to staff the clinic itself. Our evolving relationship could be represented by two interlinking circles (see Figure 2).…”

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‘Strangers in a Familiar Place’: The Evolution of a Family Therapy Clinic Within an In‐Patient Adolescent Unit

Rivett

Tomsett

Holmes

et al. 1997

Journal of Family Therapy

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This paper describes the evolution of a family therapy clinic within an inpatient adolescent unit. The dilemmas of such an enterprise are described in terms of the roles of its participants in relation to the ‘host’ unit. The authors propose that in order to maintain an appropriate boundary around the clinic, awareness of the ‘membership roles’ of the participants is essential. This concept, drawn from ethnographic research, refers to the differing perspectives that members of the multi‐disciplinary team bring into the family therapy clinic from their roles within the unit. The internal dynamics of the team are also described by reference to team members’ family of origin scripts which reflect their membership roles. The authors believe that adding a membership role perspective to family therapy clinics which operate within institutions may enable such teams to contain difference and thus achieve creativity.

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Todd

2014

The Complete Systemic Supervisor

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What Works: The Essentials of Successful Team Therapy

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Looking again at the team dimension in systemic psychotherapy: is attending to group process a critical context for practice?

Looking again at the team dimension in systemic psychotherapy: is attending to group process a critical context for practice?

‘Strangers in a Familiar Place’: The Evolution of a Family Therapy Clinic Within an In‐Patient Adolescent Unit

Classic Systemic SupervisionModels and Beyond

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