Family Therapy
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Family therapy is increasingly recognised as one of the evidence based psychotherapies. In contemporary therapeutic practice, family therapy is helpful across the age span and for distress caused by family conflict, trauma and mental health difficulties. Because of this, many psychotherapists integrate elements of family therapy within their approaches. Family Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to 100 of the fundamental ideas and techniques of this approach.
Divided into helpful sections, it covers: Family therapy theory Essential family therapy practice Using family therapy techniques Common challenges in family therapy Contemporary debates and issues Self issues for family therapists. 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 latest addition to the 100 Key Points series will also find an audience with other mental health professionals working with families and interested in learning more about family therapy techniques.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781134129393
- 9780415410380
- ePub
- 1
- Mark Rivett; Eddy Street
- English
- 2009-05-11
- 100
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- 2
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- 100 Key Points
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 SYSTEMS THEORY
- 1 What is a system?
- 2 The family as a system
- 3 Individuals and systems
- 4 Circularity and interconnection
- 5 Structures and contexts
- 6 Family rules, contexts and meanings
- 7 History and development
- 8 Meaning and time frames
- 9 The life cycle and transitions
- 10 Transitions and stress
- Part 2 COMPLEXITIES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS
- 11 Doesn’t systems theory make it sound as if people are ‘things’?
- 12 Doesn’t family therapy ignore the individual?
- 13 What about the ‘self’ of the therapist?
- 14 Doesn’t family therapy ignore the social contexts of families?
- 15 Is family therapy sexist?
- 16 Does family therapy promote what it sees as a ‘normal family’?
- 17 Is there such a thing as one ‘family therapy’?
- Part 3 BEGINNING THERAPY
- 18 Collaborative integrative ethical therapy model
- 19 Who is the customer?
- 20 Contacting and convening
- 21 Meeting the individuals
- 22 Explaining the process
- 23 Listening to the story
- 24 Capturing everyone’s perspective
- 25 Asking and empathy
- 26 The therapeutic alliance
- 27 Neutrality and the curious position
- 28 Reflection of feeling
- 29 Reflection of interaction
- 30 Tracking interactions
- 31 Establishing the family ideology
- 32 Children and play
- 33 Observation of interaction in the room
- 34 Establishing the family’s position regarding therapy
- 35 Feedback and providing summaries
- 36 Considering external systemic pressures
- 37 Family resilience
- 38 Investigating the family supportive network
- 39 Setting the therapy agenda
- Part 4 THE THERAPIST’S TECHNIQUES
- 40 Hypothesising and formulating
- 41 Expanding contexts
- 42 Talking about difficult subjects
- 43 Working with blaming interactions
- 44 Constructing a family history narrative—a genogram
- 45 Reframing and positive connotation
- 46 Assessment in family therapy
- 47 Building motivation to change
- 48 Encounter moments and process change
- Part 5 DEVELOPING INTERVENTIONS
- 49 Circular questions
- 50 Using questions to clarify and expand
- 51 Using questions to open communication
- 52 Using questions to break repetitive patterns
- 53 Using questions to link time—the past and present
- 54 Using questions to link time—the future and present
- 55 Asking questions to place behaviour in a normative context
- 56 Investigating problem-solving solutions
- 57 Making suggestions within questions
- 58 Enactment
- 59 Homework tasks
- 60 Working with family scripts
- 61 Letters to clients
- Part 6 TECHNIQUES FROM SCHOOLS OF FAMILY THERAPY
- 62 Techniques from the strategic school of family therapy
- 63 Techniques from structural family therapy
- 64 Techniques from solution-focused family therapy
- 65 Techniques from narrative family therapy
- 66 Techniques from attachment-based therapies
- 67 Techniques from psycho-educational approaches
- Part 7 ENDING THERAPY
- 68 Reviewing progress
- 69 Termination
- 70 Early termination
- 71 Follow-up
- 72 Assessment of outcome
- Part 8 THE SELF OF THE THERAPIST
- 73 Congruence—the use of self
- 74 The therapist’s own family scripts
- 75 Developing a therapeutic presence
- 76 Developing a therapeutic style
- 77 The use of disclosure in therapy
- 78 The wounded healer and human suffering
- 79 Cultural competency and the family therapist
- 80 Finding a place of ‘not knowing’
- Part 9 DEALING WITH COMMON CHALLENGES IN FAMILY THERAPY
- 81 How to manage ‘resistance’ in family therapy
- 82 How to manage getting ‘stuck’ in therapy
- 83 How to manage conflict within a session
- 84 How to manage strong emotions in a session
- 85 How to manage secrets and half truths
- 86 How to manage absence from sessions
- 87 How to manage children who ‘misbehave’ in sessions
- 88 How to manage failure
- Part 10 FAMILY THERAPY IN CONTEXTS
- 89 General contexts of practice
- 90 Contexts where abuse has occurred
- 91 Couples’ and marital therapy
- 92 Consultation and family therapy
- 93 Private practice
- 94 Diversity
- Part 11 DEBATES AND ISSUES
- 95 Integrating other therapeutic modalities into family therapy
- 96 Family therapy, family support and family counselling
- 97 What is postmodernism and why has it influenced family therapy so much?
- 98 Teams and co-therapy in family therapy practice
- 99 Training and supervision in family therapy
- 100 Towards the future for family therapy
- References