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WE-13 |
the Application of the Four -Step Map in the Assessment |
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of Couples and Families |
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Name |
Wai-yung Lee |
Nationality |
Hong Kong, China |
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Title |
Ph.D. |
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Affiliation |
AAMFT Approved Supervisor |
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Workshop type |
Between-Conference workshop
Evenings of Oct 13th, 14th and 15th, 2008 (three evenings
during the conference, 9 hours) |
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Language |
English and
Chinese |
Number of
trainees |
80-- |
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Abstract or brief
introduction of the workshop
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Using live family
interviews with local Chinese families, this
workshop will demonstrate the process of
family assessment by following the 4-step
map that was developed by Minuchin et al. in
their recent book, Family Assessment of
Couples and Family, from symptom to system.
This assessment model aims at providing a
pathway that guides the process of a family
interview. Assessment in this approach is
not looking for problems, but rather, it is
a way of enabling the family members to
understand their presenting problem in the
relational context of the family. The last
step of the assessment is to identify new
possibilities to free the family from its
restrictive relational patterns and beliefs.
Whether a psychological approach that is
developed in the West can be applied to the
East is an important question and one that
arouses debates among clinicians and
academics in different cultural contexts.
The workshop presenter will explore with the
participants through real case scenario how
family therapy can be applied in the Chinese
context.
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CV of the trainer
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| Wai-yung LEE, PhD.,
AAMFT approved supervisor, is the Associate
Professor and Founding Director of the HKU
Family Institute, University of Hong Kong.
She is also the Faculty Member of the
Minuchin Center for the Family in New York.
She has been providing training on marriage
and family therapy in the U.S. and Europe.
In the past decade, she has focused her work
on dispersing the many myths about working
with Asian Chinese families while searching
for a therapeutic framework that can be
applied to different cultural contexts. She
is among one of the first pioneers in
introducing family therapy to Mainland
China. Besides journal articles, she has
co-authored three books with Salvador
Minuchin, including the “Mastering family
therapy – Journeys of growth and
transformation.” These books are being
translated into different languages,
including Chinese. The framework introduced
in this workshop is based on the content of
“Assessing families and couples – From
symptom to system.” Her case book series,
“Family Dance,” written in Chinese, has also
been published in Mainland China, Taiwan,
and Hong Kong. |
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