The Referral Process
The referral process by which a client enters family therapy. The context of referral is an interactional process in which, generally speaking, someone decides that a problem exist and someone initiates the idea that therapy is a possible resource and should be sought.
In this process the teacher assess first the situation or the problem. Counsel the child, and also to investigate on How does it happens?. It is important to look not only to your own perspectives, but also with the help of other people. Start with the background of the child, family, friends and neighbors.
The Joining Process
Joining is letting the family know that the therapist understand them and is working with and for them. It is conceptualized as an interactional pattern that is repeated throughout the entire course of family therapy.
In this process the teacher can help parents to fix the problems of their child. If the parents cooperate with you, it would be a good start on the process. In order to help teachers and parents to understand the situations they must cooperate with each other by giving or sharing some important information necessary for joining process.
The Therapeutic Contract
This contract consists of expectations and goals transacted at two levels of communication and these are content and process.
Content means report in communication or the verbal information while the Process means command or the nonverbal manifestation of how the sender is defining the relationship.
Intentions are the most important part in therapeutic contract. Why do we need to help this family to save their children? Because, we have intentions. Good intentions that the teachers should have to help their students with their problems.
Goals are similar to expectations. In every problems that occur we set our goals to end that problems. In therapeutic process, as a teacher, after we addressed the problems, we think on what is to be accomplished.
Data Gathering
The process of data gathering can occur in many formal and informal ways. Schools provide a wide variety of distinctions regarding what type of information to gather and how to gather it.
Data gathering can be conducted through observations and questions that gives information based on their experiences. When gathering data, we should include the past and the present information. The more data we gather the better we can assess the problems. Every information is important in dealing with problems. We should also take into account the information from various people. We, as a therapist must be able to think broadly about families and about how to help them to change and most especially help children to become a better person of their own.
Group 1
Elizabeth Cainoy
Lourdes Barrion
Charmaine Crystal Baluyot
