A theory that is part of [[Marriage & Family Therapy]]. ## Key Concepts - People naturally progress toward positive growth - People have all the resources needed for this positive growth (but they may not know it, this is part of the therapist's job) - Security grows out of confidence in the process of change and growth - People take risks and opportunities to move into the unknown - Everyone impacts everyone else and there is mutual influence - Therapy provides a context for interaction among clients and between the therapist and client - A context that allows clients to be loving and nurturing so that access to vulnerability is available - Problems arise from people's coping with the problem - Changes come from making different choices. Therapist's task is to help clients realize that they can choose ## Notes from video shown in class - Creating intentional change (is the essence of this model) - Change - verb: the process - noun: the result - Going from the status quo to the unknown - the old ways of coping won't cut it when you're in the new place - the therapist's role is to lead the client to the scary unknown place - so there is a big emphasis on building a **context** of trust, being loving, nurturing etc to allow vulnerability to be shown - All of our behaviors, the way we cope, was learned (from when we were kids) - The trouble is never the problem, it's the coping of the problem - The change occurs in the new ways of coping