Family Therapy
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Family Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to family therapy. Through a range of case examples, the authors describe how family therapists begin and progress their therapy. Each section of the book is constructed to lead both beginning and experienced clinicians into the acquisition of new skills. This new edition covers: The use of formulation and hypotheses in family therapy practice How relational patterns function and how to change negative ones Initial skills and principles to help families change their patterns Advanced family therapy interviewing Evidence-based models of family therapy Contemporary issues in family therapy practice Family Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques is an invaluable resource for psychotherapists and counsellors in training and in practice.
As well as appealing to established family therapists, this new edition should also find an audience with other mental health professionals working with families who are interested in learning more about family therapy techniques.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781317557715
- 9781138823716
- ePub
- 2
- Mark Rivett; Eddy Street
- English
- 2026-11-30
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Cover Page
- Endorsements Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Section 1 The Space Between
- 1 Invisible Webs of Connection
- 2 Systems Theory
- 3 Systems are not Static
- 4 Taking a Broader Position on Systems
- 5 Towards the ‘Systemic Mind’
- Section 2 Family Spaces
- 6 The Multi-Verse of Families
- 7 The Family Life Cycle
- 8 Horizontal and Vertical Stresses
- 9 The Family Structure
- 10 The Lines of Communication
- 11 Families and Meaning
- 12 Families and Emotions
- 13 Gender and the Family
- 14 Race and the Family
- 15 Culture and the Family
- 16 The Total Social Context — The Social GGRRRAAACCEEESSS and Intersectionality
- 17 How do Family Therapists Think About Problems in Families?
- Section 3 Controversies and Debates About Systems Theory
- 18 Making People Into ‘Cogs in the Machine’
- 19 Systems Theory as the ‘Normality Police’
- 20 Systems Theory as a ‘Grand Narrative’
- 21 Decolonising Systems Theory
- Section 4 Foundational Principles
- 22 Collaboration
- 23 The Therapeutic Alliance
- 24 Safety and Empowerment
- 25 Doing What Works — Evidence-Based Practice
- 26 Accountability to Our Employers and Clients
- 27 Reflective Practice
- 28 The Self of the Therapist
- Section 5 Assessing Families
- 29 Assessment and Family Therapy
- 30 Assessment Tools
- 31 Conversational Systemic Assessment — What Do We Need to Know About the Family?
- 32 How Does the Problem Affect the Family?
- 33 How Does the Family Affect the Problem?
- 34 Broadening the Assessment — Taking Into Account Multiple Levels of Context
- 35 Assessing Systemic Emotional Upsets, Pain and Trauma
- 36 Formulating and Hypothesising
- 37 Assessing for Change and Building Motivation
- Section 6 Beginning Therapy — Interactive Interviewing
- 38 Interactive Interviewing
- 39 Using a Family Tree (Genogram) as an Interactive Interviewing Technique
- 40 Drawing Feedback Loops to Highlight Interactive Cycles
- 41 Bringing Interaction Into the Conversation
- 42 Evoking Interactional Curiosity by Reflecting on Patterns
- 43 Interactional Goal Setting
- Section 7 Further into the Therapy — Interventive Interviewing
- 44 What Do We Talk About? — Bringing Formulations and Hypotheses to Bear in Family Therapy
- 45 Intention, Intervention and Persistence
- 46 Circular Questions
- 47 Using Circular Questions to Connect Family Members to the Identified Problem
- 48 Using Circular Questions to Interrupt Patterns and Invite New Patterns
- 49 Using Circular Questions to Deepen Understanding
- 50 Using Circular Questions to Clarify and Expand Time Frames
- 51 Reframing in Family Therapy
- 52 Progressive Reframes and Ockham’s Razor
- 53 Externalisation in Family Therapy
- 54 Enactment — An Action Method in Family Therapy
- 55 ‘Sculpting’ in Family Therapy Practice
- Section 8 Developing Family Therapy Skills
- 56 Talking About Talking
- 57 Integrating Difference into the Therapeutic Conversation
- 58 The Dual Mind of the Therapist
- 59 Working Systemically with Emotions
- 60 Working with Blame and Negativity
- 61 Taking the Therapist’s Voice into Everyday Life
- 62 Bringing the Therapeutic Relationship Into the Conversation
- 63 Interrupting and Guiding the Process
- 64 More Perspective Taking Techniques
- 65 Working with Family Scripts
- Section 9 Common Issues in Family Therapy
- 66 ‘Resistance’ in Family Therapy
- 67 Getting ‘Stuck’ in Family Therapy
- 68 Distracting and Alluring Dramas in Family Therapy
- 69 Secrets in Family Therapy
- 70 Absent Family Members
- 71 The Mantra of “I Don’t Know” in Family Therapy
- 72 Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Members
- 73 Endings in Family Therapy
- 74 Failure in Family Therapy
- Section 10 Beyond Technique
- 75 Embodying Therapeutic Presence
- 76 Excellence in Family Therapy
- 77 Walking Into Words — Using Language Purposefully
- 78 When Themes Get Blocked
- 79 Trusting the Process
- 80 Transformational Moments
- 81 Further Journeys Into Self
- 82 On Knowing Not to Know — Letting Go of Systems Theory
- Section 11 The Schools of Family Therapy
- 83 The Family Therapy Generations
- 84 The First Generation of Family Therapies — Psychodynamic, Structural, Strategic and Milan
- 85 The Second Generation — Social Justice and Post-Milan
- 86 The Third Generation — the Postmodern Revolution in Narrative and Solution-Focused Approaches
- 87 The Fourth Generation — Collaborative and Evidence-Based Approaches
- 88 The Contemporary Generation
- Section 12 Evidence-Based Family Therapies
- 89 The Evidence and Family Therapy
- 90 Adolescent Eating Disorders
- 91 Adolescent Depression and Suicidality
- 92 Disruptive Adolescent Behaviour
- 93 Family Approaches in Working with Psychosis
- 94 Evidence-Based Couple Therapy Models
- 95 Multi-Family Group Therapy
- Section 13 Contemporary Issues in family Therapy
- 96 ‘Family Work’ and Its Relationship to Family Therapy
- 97 Digital Family Therapy
- 98 Teamwork and Family Therapy
- 99 Becoming a Family Therapist
- 100 The Family and Its Therapy
- Resources
- References