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C E Sluzki

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PubMed2000

Social networks and the elderly: conceptual and clinical issues, and a family consultation.

After a general introduction to the construct "social networks," this article discusses the progressive transformation of the personal social network--family, friends and acquaintances, work and leisure relationships, et cetera--as individuals reach an advanced age. This is followed by a summary and discussion of a clinical consultation, with an emphasis on the reciprocal influence between individual and social network.

Aged↗
PubMed1993

Toward a model of family and political victimization: implications for treatment and recovery.

Political violence, in any of its ugly guises, has a devastating and long-lasting effect on its victims. This effect derives, in my view, from the concurrence of two factors: (1) the physical and emotional violence is perpetrated by the very agencies of society (such as the police and the armed forces) entrusted with the care and protection of individuals, with maintaining order in their world, with enforcing stability, and predictability; and (2) a context or a discourse that destroys or mystifies meanings so that recognition of that shift from protection to violence is blurred.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1992

Transformations: a blueprint for narrative changes in therapy.

When problematic-symptomatic behaviors are conceived as embedded, retained, and maintained in collective stories, therapy can be described as the transformative process by which patients, families, and therapists co-generate qualitative changes in those stories. An emphasis on narratives allows one to specify further how those transformations unfold at the more "micro" level of the exchanges that take place throughout the consultation. To that specification is devoted the core of this essay, which closes with a discussion of the clinical, training, and, especially, research potentials of this systematization.

Communication↗
PubMed1990

Disappeared: semantic and somatic effects of political repression in a family seeking therapy.

The admission interview and a brief course of therapy with a family of six living in a repressive political context is presented. The context is described, the initial interview detailed, and seven sessions summarized. This is followed by a discussion of the effects of the political climate on the family's language, social adaptation, and health, and of the goals of therapy with families of disappeared people (desaparecidos).

Argentina↗
PubMed1983

Process, structure and world views: toward an integrated view of systemic models in family therapy.

Therapeutic modalities centered in interpersonal processes, in structural phenomena, and in reality constructions--the three care orientations in the field of family therapy--are here defined as mutually nonexclusive "translations" of the systemic paradigm into clinical practice. This definition does not attempt to blur the distinctions among these models but seeks to show their common denominator and thus expands the conceptual and clinical repertoire of the systems-oriented family therapist.

Family↗
PubMed1978

[The decision to speak].

The decission "to speak", that is, to begin an utterance in an informal interactive situation, conveys information about decissions of the speaker, but also about those of other participants, especially when the outcome of that act--whether in fact the subject was allowed to "ocupy the channel", etc.--is analyzed. This variable seems to be of relevance for the study of the development of what has been named in the literature on communication the "definition of the relationship". In this paper, the decission to speak is explored both descriptively as well as through the dicussion of the result of a research project on interactional processes.

Facial Expression↗
PubMed1976

[Reconsideration of the Latin lover. An etno-communicational vignette with a moral].

The latin lover is a model of the self-fulfilling prophecy: you have to believe in him to be able to find him. The sequence that produces the latin lover includes the following ingredients: a) the "neutral" face-to-face distance for Latins is similar to the "seductive" face-to-face distance of non-Latins (more specifically, of Anglo-Saxons and Nord-Europeans); b) non-Latins do not detect the influence of their own cultural stereotype, the "Latin Lover", in their perception of the other's behavior; c) if the non-Latin choses to contribute his/her own share of seductive behavior, he/she will label that performance as a "response" to the message attributed to the Latin; d) the Latin, in turn, is forced by the pressures of his own cultural stereotypes to respond to a seductive advance with more seductive behavior; he labels his own behavior as a "response" to uncalled for behavior on the part of the non-Latin; e) that readiness to escalate seduction reinforces, in the eyes of the non-Latin, the first meaning attributed to that spacial choice behavior of the Latin. The case illustrates certain notions of communication theory, especially issues of "punctuation" and text-context relationships.

Behavior↗