Family Therapy in Chinese Culture and Context: Lessons from Supervising Therapists-in-Training in China

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• 作者：Karen Mui-Teng Quek ; Hao-Min Chen
• 关键词：Family therapy ; Collectivism ; Chinese ; Self ; identity ; Focus groups ; Qualitative
• 刊名：Contemporary Family Therapy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：39
• 期：1
• 页码：12-20
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Clinical Psychology; Family; Social Work; Psychotherapy; Sociology, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3335
• 卷排序：39

文摘

Systemic family therapy as an essential paradigm for treating couples and families has gone global since its initial rise to popularity. According to researchers, China has signaled a strong desire for training in systemic family therapy. Even though this mode of mental health service is a foreign import to China, the surge in interest for Western psychotherapy for individuals and families grows by leaps and bounds. However there has been evolving conversations about the transportability of systemic family therapy from the West to the East. Using a qualitative focus group format, this study explored the experiences of sixteen Chinese couple and family therapists on their perspectives in adapting systemic family therapy concepts to the local Chinese context. Results reveal the interplay between the systems of the changing Chinese family structure and of the application of family therapy models that originated from the West must work harmoniously in order to enhance the goodness of the familial system within the evolving Chinese society in the 21st century.