Authors: M. A. Rothery, Michael Rothery, George Enns
ISBN-13: 9780789010858, ISBN-10: 0789010852
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Encourage creative change in troubled families!
Clinical Practice with Families: Supporting Creativity and Competence presents the most important and useful contemporary ideas in family therapy from many diverse traditions. By organizing eclectic concepts within one basic, powerful framework, it makes these ideas more accessible and effective in practice.
Instead of exploring these ideas in the abstract, Clinical Practice with Families illustrates them with in-depth case examples that include detailed studies of the client family's history and traditions, extensive analyses of the family system, and actual dialogue from sessions, along with the therapist's comments on shifting alliances and other unspoken occurrences. No other technique could better demonstrate the practical integration of therapeutic skills and concepts to meet the clients’needs.
Clinical Practice with Families offers insight and ideas for practicing family therapists in such essential areas as:
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Creativity and Frameworks | 1 | |
Pt. I | Essential Themes - A Framework for Understanding | |
Ch. 1 | Boundaries | 21 |
Ch. 2 | Traditions | 51 |
Ch. 3 | Development of Individuals in Families: Themes and Variations | 73 |
Pt. II | Facilitating Change | |
Ch. 4 | Understanding Change | 123 |
Ch. 5 | Setting Goals, Discovering Solutions | 147 |
Ch. 6 | Clarifying Boundaries: Boundaries As a Framework for Therapy | 165 |
Ch. 7 | Helping Vulnerable Families | 211 |
Epilogue: Future Creative Challenges | 231 | |
References | 239 | |
Index | 247 |