Contextual Family Therapy

Key Person: Ivan Boszormenhi-Nagy

 Key Concepts:

1. There are 4 dimensions of reality:

• The facts (biological and sociohistorical)

• Individual psychology (emotional and cognitive)

•  Transactions (systematic)

• Relational ethics (balance of give and take)

2. Autonomy does not exist without someone to relate and assert self to.
3. Entitlement:

•  all acts fall into either giving or taking

• destructive entitlement

Assessment Strategies:

1. Check on dimension of facts
2. Check on transactions between family members
3. Check on relationships

 Therapy Strategies:

1. Contract with client to change reality
2. Work on give and take between family members
3. Work on positioning

 Key Words:

1. Entitlement
2. Give and take
3. Transactions
4. Positioning
5. Reality