The Fundamental Concepts Of Family Therapy: Modern Essay

The Fundamental Concepts of Family Therapy: Modern Family: Episode, “Mother’s Day”
This episode of Modern Family exhibits some of the fundamental concepts of family Therapy as described in Michael P. Nichols’ textbook, Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, 9th edition, chapter 4.   Some of the concepts displayed are Cybernetics, General Systems Theory, Social Constructionism, Attachment Theory, and several of the Working Concepts of the Family Therapy.
I believe that I saw the work of Cybernetics in the episode of Mother’s Day with the couple Mitchell and Cam. Even though Mitchell continuously tried to convince Cam that he was not the wife in the couple, there were other feedback loops of friends and family that did imply the Cam was assumed to be the “wife” in the relationship.   For example, Mitchel brought Cam breakfast in bed because it was mothers’ day.   I believe I saw depicted also here was “complimentary”, a as described by Nichols page 99 in how Cam was always taking offense into being viewed as the female in the relationship, and Mitchell was constantly trying to convince him otherwise thus remaining in a family homeostasis.   Then we see how the concept of “triangles” in which a third party member, in this case the friends are at a gathering;   moms and children were asked to take pictures and Cam tries to escape.   Social Constructivism, page 95, is seen when eventually Cam did get chosen to be the “mom” to take the group picture and was even given a bouquet of flowers. Again Mitchell tries to protect Cam as he tries to explain that people are just not ready to interact with gay couples without being offensive thereby, continuing the pattern of “family homeostasis page 92.