Family Role-Play: Part 2

―A Case Study of a Family Therapist―

Abstract

　　In the previous paper “Family Role-Play: Part 1” by the same author, she reported the attempts of the use of family role-play in the small-group training workshops for the psychotherapists, and introduced the possibility of the use of family role-play for the purpose of training analysis of the therapists as well as family therapists.

　　In this paper, a case of the training of a male family therapist by family role-play as a training analysis is reported.

　　The training was conducted for a male therapist A, in order to promote his self-understanding and to solve family conflict of his family of origin, concerning his younger brother.

　　The three kinds of family meeting scene by all five members, and by A and his father and mother, were conducted, utilizing the technique of role-change and scene-change ; and double-role (alterego), and feedback by participants were effectively conducted. As a result, understanding of A himself and his family was deepened.

　　The skill of facilitation by the trainer to direct effective scene-making and the timing of role-change was also discussed.