A Practical Guide to Family Therapy
Structured Guidelines and Key Skills
- 314 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
A Practical Guide to Family Therapy
Structured Guidelines and Key Skills
About this book
Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families.
This second edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters which cover working with First Nations Families, diversity and family therapy, understanding emotions, and dialogical reflective processes. The book begins with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and use of self as a foundation, and from there provides the reader with practical, skill-oriented guidelines for working with families. From the first session to addressing the complexities of separated parents, parent-child relational breaches, family of origin issues, wider systems, managing emotions, diversity, and much more, the book takes the reader through core practices that will become essential skills for family work.
Written by an expert team of authors committed to innovative and contextual practice, this book is for experienced clinicians who want to learn to work with families and for beginning therapists to learn from a structured approach to developing complex skills.
Chapters 2, 3 and 14 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Craft and Values of Contemporary Systemic Family Therapy
- 1 The Therapeutic Relationship and Use of Self
- 2 Structured Guidelines for the First Session of Post-Milan Systemic Therapy
- 3 Deviation Amplifying: The Second Session
- 4 Establishing the Parental Hierarchy: An Integration of Milan Systemic and Structural Family Therapy
- 5 Working with Abuse in Families: The Challenge of Establishing Safety While Fostering Therapeutic Relationships
- 6 Including Children in Family Therapy
- 7 Improving Relationship Security for Distressed Adolescents
- 8 Family Therapy with Adolescents: Key Ideas and Their Application
- 9 The Why and How of Separate Parent Sessions in Family Therapy
- 10 Family of Origin Sessions: Why, When, and How
- 11 Embracing Differences: Transforming Family Therapy Through Diversity and Inclusion
- 12 Working Systemically with Australian First Nation Families
- 13 Dialogical Reflecting Processes and Practices in Family Therapy
- 14 The Final Session
- Index