Reference no: EM133306097

Question: Provide a reaction to your colleague's approach to multidirectional partiality and share a point of caution to their approach.

Some of the power issues seen at home will undoubtedly surface during family counseling. When it comes to the facts, individual psychology, systemic relationships, and relational ethics of the house, every member of the family will have their own opinion. For fairness' sake, this author thinks it's important that in the interview described by Metcalf (2011), who contains a chapter on frequently employed interventions, each participant be given ample opportunity to speak without interruption. When an interviewee interrupts the therapist, she states who she will listen to and assures the interrupter that she will return to them, but for the time being, the interruptee has the floor (Metcalf, 2011). Because it guarantees that everyone gets the same treatment regardless of how important one's opinion is, this intervention is, in the author's opinion, a good way to keep things fair. As a result, the therapist may retain objectivity across all four dimensions of reality, allowing each family member a chance to be heard while also encouraging collaboration among all participants in the session by rewarding those who can respect the principles of therapy with her attention (Metcalf, 2011).

Standard 3.4 of the AAMFT code of ethics (2015) specifies that marriage and family therapists do not provide services that create a conflict of interest that may affect work performance or clinical judgment, and this is an ethical concern that may arise during the course of facilitating family therapy. As an ethical concern, this arises because in providing contextual therapy to families, one aids each family member with their goals, which may be in conflict with the interests of another family member. In an interview with Metcalf (2011), a mother expresses a need for aid in convincing her daughter that she is not yet ready to move out. The daughter, on the other hand, requests help becoming more self-reliant. Additionally, an Asian family's cultural norms may present a challenge when enabling contextual treatment. Since many Asian families are collectivist, with members not acting in their own self-interest but rather for the good of the group, it can be challenging to set individual goals with each member. Individual treatment aims may undercut culturally valued goals of interconnectedness (especially among family members), and hence disrupt community harmony, as stated by Nagayama et al. (2011).