Application of MFT Models

Review this week’s required resources, especially the MDFT website (Links to an external site.)

• Editor’s note, Preface, and pp. 1–123 of Child Development: A Practitioner’s Guide.
• The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Ainsworth Strange Situation” (Links to an external site.)

“Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Research” (Links to an external site.)

“Avoidant Attachment Strange Situation” (Links to an external site.)

“Allan Schore Neurobiology of Secure Attachment”

• From a Multidimensional Family Therapy framework, describe how neurological integration can be associated with adolescent depression, anxiety, or other presenting problems for adolescents. Consider what you read in Week One about trauma and its influence on brain functioning and development.
• Select one of the following MFT models, and discuss its application to adolescents and their families. Include the incorporation of creative expressive methods.
  • Structural
  • Narrative
  • Solution-focused
  • Bowenian
  • Cognitive-behavioral family therapy
  • Emotionally focused family therapy (EFFT)

  i told my teacher i would most likely do emotionally focused family therapy, but please feel free to o what you are comfortable with doing, as a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document.

• if possible please use 4-5 references

Application of MFT Models Rubric