Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio

Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy an Integrative Framework

The aim of systemic, integrative ftrameworks is to empower therapists to draw across mariage andfamily therapy models to select the most appropriate treatment strategies for any family. The therapy model presented here provides an organizing set of dimensions and strategies for the continuous assessment offamily functioning throughout the therapeutic process. 7hese assessment data are used to assist in the coconstruction of developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive treatment plans that guide the selection of interventions from different marimage and family therapy perspectives.

Relational diagnosis: a coconstructive-developmental perspective on assessment and treatment.

As we expand the borders of traditional diagnostic nomenclature, distinguishing health from disorder becomes complex. This is especially true when the diagnostic lens views individuals as they exist within families that reside within wider social milieus. From this viewpoint, the recursive and interdependent factors influencing how individuals, relationships, and wider collectives contribute to and construe disorder need to be determined Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy is one approach to conducting viable relational diagnoses and treatment, guiding therapists to formulate an understanding of the internal cognitive-developmental resources available to clients and other relevant, interdependent systems, and to examine the forces influencing the interactive discourse across these systems. The constructs of worldview, information processing styles, power differentials, and interpersonal connectiveness are presented as conceptual tools to guide relational diagnosis. An example illustrates relational diagnosis and treatment.

Systemic cognitive-developmental therapy: A counselling model and an integrative classification schema for working with partners and families

Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy (SCDT) represents a holistic, non-pathological, and integrative approach to partner and family counselling. The model directly links developmental constructs to the counselling process and offers specific assessment and treatment strategies that can be easily learned and applied in the immediacy of the counselling encounter. Additionally, it offers a classification schema that clinicians can use to organize familiar counselling and therapy approaches into a developmental framework. This article introduces the theory and practice of SCDT, illustrates the techniques and strategies specific to the model, and provides illustrative partner, family, and client examples for clarification.

From cultural to existential diversity: The impossibility of psychotherapy integration within a traditional framework

Abstract The authors build upon Castonguay and Goldfrieds analysis regarding issues and directions central to advancing psychotherapy integration. They elaborate on two issues addressed only minimally in Castonguay and Goldfrieds article. The first involves moving beyond traditional psychotherapy territory to include cultural, self-in-relationship, and interdisciplinary domains. The second concerns using more holistic and synergistic processes to coconstruct integrative theories and approaches. Finally, the authors offer some insights into what they believe should be the goals of the integrative movement and into additional issues they think should be addressed to attain these goals. Psychotherapy has become so complex and changing that we need a new view—one that recognizes the impossibility of any final or superior integrative theory and the need for constant change and evolution in theory and practice.

Resilience Relative to Korean Families

This drive to lift oneself up after a fall and to come back stronger, faster, and smarter is evident in resilient Korean families. History has shown, time and time again, that Korean families have the ability to pull together the necessary psychological, spiritual, interpersonal, and material resources to overcome adversities and to emerge with broader skills and knowledge, with a deeper sense of well-being; all necessary qualities to improve their lives and the lives of their kin.

Expanding client worldviews: Investigating developmental counselling and therapy assumptions

Developmental Counselling and Therapy (DCT) represents a co-constructive, developmental, and integrative approach to individual treatment. DCT posits that introducing specific and consistent therapeutic questioning strategies, corresponding to four different cognitive-developmental orientations or worldviews, enables clients to gain an extended perspective on their presenting issues, and thus to recognize a broad range of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral change options. To test this assumption, two investigations involving Japanese subjects were conducted. The findings from both studies indicate that consistent phrasing of therapeutic questions, targeted at specific cognitive-developmental orientations, facilitates subjects to expand their ability to discuss historical events and personality attributes from multiple perspectives. Clinical and research considerations are outlined.