FRAME:S
Encyclopedia
FRAME:S is a psychological therapeutic model developed by Staffan Garpebring. The model is built around a psychoeducational practice focused on treating common stress
related problems youth
experience in their daily life. FRAME:S have roots in a mix of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt therapy
and Systemic Therapy
.
"FRAMES is an abbreviation where each letter stands for a certain aspect of the psyché. To sum it up: Our experiences can be described in the following components:
(F) Focus-formation in attention towards various outer phenomena and inner, physiological states(selective perception)
(R) Reactions in the body (physiology; hormones etc)
(A) Actions (behaviour, attitude)
(M) Mental conceptions (”mental action”)
(E) Emotions and
(S) Self awareness.
Accordingly, we can denote every experience as a FRAME. – FRAMES gradually give rise to self awareness. Dialectic FRAMES Therapy; a mix of Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Systemic Family Therapy, is based on the formula: O – [ FRAMES ] – EO.
O stands for ”Outer situation” including other people’s FRAMES.
EO stands for effects of FRAMES in the outer situation. A person’s behaviour and attitude mutually interact with that person’s circumstantial conditions. Dialectic from Greek (dialegein) means take apart. Dialectic FRAMES Therapy means to take apart – to analyze interaction within a person’s FRAMES, and between different persons’ FRAMES. A vast majority of FRAMES eventually become automatic due to repetitive learning. Some FRAMES contribute to happiness, joy and pleasure whilst others involve stress, sorrow and anxiety. When arousal in the body is high it can narrow our attention span drastically. Tunnel vision and filtered listening is an essential phenomenon at catastrophic thinking as well as mania".
(from "Stress Reflexes reflecting and affecting Perception of Life" by Staffan Garpebring)
Stress (medicine)
Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...
related problems youth
Youth
Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood . Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.-Usage:Around the world, the terms "youth",...
experience in their daily life. FRAME:S have roots in a mix of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility, and that focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating...
and Systemic Therapy
Systemic Therapy
Systemic therapy is a form of psychotherapy which seeks to address people not on individual level, as had been the focus of earlier forms of therapy, but as people in relationship, dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics.- History :Systemic therapy has...
.
Theory
The model points out the circular (reciprocal) connections between perceptions (listening, looking, perceptions of the body etc), physiological reactions of the body, acting, thinking, feeling and self-perceptions, such as when you think certain thoughts you become sad and vice versa - when you are sad you think certain thoughts."FRAMES is an abbreviation where each letter stands for a certain aspect of the psyché. To sum it up: Our experiences can be described in the following components:
(F) Focus-formation in attention towards various outer phenomena and inner, physiological states(selective perception)
(R) Reactions in the body (physiology; hormones etc)
(A) Actions (behaviour, attitude)
(M) Mental conceptions (”mental action”)
(E) Emotions and
(S) Self awareness.
Accordingly, we can denote every experience as a FRAME. – FRAMES gradually give rise to self awareness. Dialectic FRAMES Therapy; a mix of Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Systemic Family Therapy, is based on the formula: O – [ FRAMES ] – EO.
O stands for ”Outer situation” including other people’s FRAMES.
EO stands for effects of FRAMES in the outer situation. A person’s behaviour and attitude mutually interact with that person’s circumstantial conditions. Dialectic from Greek (dialegein) means take apart. Dialectic FRAMES Therapy means to take apart – to analyze interaction within a person’s FRAMES, and between different persons’ FRAMES. A vast majority of FRAMES eventually become automatic due to repetitive learning. Some FRAMES contribute to happiness, joy and pleasure whilst others involve stress, sorrow and anxiety. When arousal in the body is high it can narrow our attention span drastically. Tunnel vision and filtered listening is an essential phenomenon at catastrophic thinking as well as mania".
(from "Stress Reflexes reflecting and affecting Perception of Life" by Staffan Garpebring)
Further reading
- Staffan Garpebring, FRAME:S - en psykologisk rammodell, Books on demand (June, 2004) ISBN 91-631-4832-3
- Staffan Garpebring, "Stressreflexer och Tankefällor". Books on Demand (2008) ISBN 91-85925-22-5
- Staffan Garpebring, Stress Reflexes reflecting and affecting Perception of Life, Books on Demand (2010) ISBN 978-91-86193-41-6