Publications by authors named "Joaquin Gaete"
Article Synopsis
- - Emotion regulation is key in therapy, especially in couple and family therapy, but it can also reflect and strengthen neoliberal ideals of self-management and personal responsibility.
- - The article argues that therapeutic practices may inadvertently push clients towards a self-improvement mindset aligned with neoliberal values, placing the burden of happiness and well-being on them.
- - While emotion regulation techniques might support individualism, the therapy field has potential to resist these trends and promote alternative ways of being and feeling within the context of broader societal pressures.
Family therapy has often been conceptualized as a conversational process whereby therapists and clients generate new meanings. Based on a 3-year study of conversational practices observable in successful family therapy processes of Chilean families with a child/adolescent who is engaged in disruptive behaviors, we looked for clinical examples of Transforming Interpersonal Patterns (TIPs). TIPs are a key aspect of the IPscope, a framework we used to explore the meaning-making processes in family therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor over 20 years, family therapist Karl Tomm has been engaging families and couples with a therapeutic intervention he calls Internalized Other Interviewing (IOI). The IOI (cf. Emmerson-Whyte, 2010; Hurley, 2006) entails interviewing clients, from the personal experiences of partners and family members as an internalized other.
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