A sample:

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• Like most employees, therapists come to work understanding the dynamics of the family and community that raised them, but insufficient numbers understand how the business world works generally, much less their actual role within their personally confusing morasses of most workplaces. They comprehend that families are specifically about personal relationships which tend to generate naturally, seemingly last forever and where issues, tasks and responsibilities are secondary.

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• But the workplace is altogether different. The workplace is instead a consciously constructed organization that pursues mostly near-term goals. The people who pursue those goals, the personal aspects of relations between them, and sometimes even the means they use to meet those goals are secondary at best. Employees shouldn’t take it personally because, ultimately, it is not personal. It is business. Again, it is about “production, profits and paychecks,” and not personalities. When bullying bosses are thrown into the mix, it is difficult enough to transcend the illusion of the interpersonal without MFTs reinforcing the family model that simply does not fit into the workplace.