The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach
Videotape of Monica McGoldrick Doing Therapy with a Remarried Family
Considered by many to be the best clinical videotape available in the family therapy field!
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Although the professional literature has long been rich with studies and insights on death and grief as it impacts on individual survivors, Monica McGoldrick has remained the pioneering voice forging our understanding of how one family memeber's response to loss has ramifications for every other family member— even through an extended family network and even through several generations. In this dramatic recreation of key moments in the 18-week course of therapy with the Rogers family, we see how the presenting problem— teenage daughter Michelle's rebellious behavior— masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members. McGoldrick's interactions with this family, further illuminated by her commentary, offer step-by-step guidance in how to:
- use genograms to quickly assess patterns of unresolved loss across several generations
- assign homework and prescribe rituals that help families mourn their losses and resolve their grief;
- evaluate how diverse factors, and most especially ethnic and gender issues, impact on a family's ability to cope with loss;
- achieve therapeutic goals by supplementing regular family sessions with individual or couple sessions.
“Monica McGoldrick has a gift for making the complex look simple. She packs into the eight sessions recreated on the Legacy of Unresolved Loss issues of gender, ethnicity, remarriage, teenage rebellion, step-parenting, and more. She does nothing fancy, nothing tricky, but at the end of this video you're seen a master at work.” — Olga Silverstein, M.S.W., Emeritus Faculty, The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, New York City
The accompanying viewer's manual provides extensive information on the tenets and implementation of McGoldrick's treatment model, including concrete applications of the genogram as both an assessment and treatment tool, as well as background information on the case and a session-by-session review of the therapy. Tables summarize key points.