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EP00 Workshop 03 - Family Violence - Cloe Madanes, Lic. Psychol.


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Topic Areas:
Family Therapy |  Children and Adolescent Therapy |  Workshops |  Abuse |  Domestic Violence |  Protective Strategies |  Reparation |  Spiritual Healing
Categories:
Evolution of Psychotherapy |  Evolution of Psychotherapy 2000 |  Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
Faculty:
Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
Duration:
1 Hour 13 Minutes
Format:
Audio Only
Original Program Date:
May 25, 2000
License:
Never Expires.



Description

Description:

Ms. Madanes will discuss strategies for working with child abuse and neglect, spouse abuse, adolescent violence, suicide prevention, sexual abuse when the perpetrator is an adult and when the perpetrator is a juvenile, and situations where violence happened many years ago. Step by step methods for preventing future violence will be presented.

Educational Objectives:

  1. To identify the central issues when dealing with violence.
  2. To name the stages of therapy when dealing with sexual abuse. 

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*

Outline:

Workshop Overview

  • Hosted by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation; focus on family violence

  • Workshop provides tools, theory, and video examples (including incest cases)

  • Emphasizes the global and familial impact of violence

15-Step Method for Preventing Violence Recurrence

  • Designed for adolescent sex offenders; 96% success rate (Montgomery County, MD)

  • Now applied to incest, child abuse, physical and marital violence

  • Highlights spiritual pain for both victim and offender

Initial Steps in Incest Family Therapy

  • Full family convened; offense discussed directly

  • Offender asked to explain why the act was wrong

  • Therapist addresses spiritual pain early in therapy

  • Offender acknowledges harm done to victim and self

Family Accountability and Apology Process

  • Family expresses sorrow for not protecting the victim

  • Offender must kneel and express remorse (not seek forgiveness)

  • Family must unanimously agree apology is sincere

  • Victim benefits from seeing responsibility acknowledged

Reparation and Rebuilding Family Ties

  • Offender performs symbolic or real acts of reparation

  • Emphasis on normal life resumption and safe sexual understanding

  • Mother’s love restored to both children critical to family healing

Addressing Marital Violence

  • Involves extended family, especially male elders

  • Extended family sets consequences for future abuse

  • Separation and third-party involvement used in severe cases

  • Third party at home helps shift relationship dynamics

Ericksonian Intervention: Bank Account Strategy

  • Therapist identifies who the husband despises most (e.g., mother-in-law)

  • Joint bank account is created; money forfeited if violence recurs

  • Designed to make violence socially and financially costly

Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect

  • Method applied to physical abuse and neglect

  • Avoid lecturing; raise self-esteem instead

  • Use family/community supports like suicide watch and family watch

Suicide Watch and Family Involvement

  • Suicide watch: family watches the person 24/7

  • Use family of origin (not spouse) for married individuals

  • Family watch assigns roles to extended family and community

  • Godparents appointed to support children in overwhelmed families

Coaching and Working with Protective Services

  • Coaching helps parents/adolescents relate better

  • Goal with CPS: disengage by proving good parenting

  • Therapists should help families create and follow a clear plan

  • Reward systems for parental effort and success are essential

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Cloé Madanes, HDL, LIC, is a world-renowned innovator and teacher of family and strategic therapy and one of the originators of the strategic approach to family therapy. She has authored seven books that are classics in the field: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love and Violence; The Violence of Men; The Secret Meaning of Money; The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker; and Relationship Breakthrough. She has presented her work at professional conferences all over the world and has given keynote addresses for The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; the National Association of Social Workers, The Erickson Foundation, the California Psychological Association and many other national and international conferences. Madanes has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology and has counseled outstanding individuals from all walks of life.


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