Authors: Breunlin, Kune-Karrer, Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780787910709, ISBN-10: 0787910708
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
DOUGLAS C. BREUNLIN is vice president and chief operating officer of the Family Institute at Northwestern University. RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ is a member of the senior faculty of the Family Institute at Northwestern University. BETTY MAC KUNE-KARRER is director of the Family Systems Program of the Institute for Juvenile Research and clinical associate in psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
An Innovative Approach to Family Therapy
This breakthrough book takes you beyond the theoretical boundaries that currently constrain family therapy and leads instead to an innovative approach. The authors analyze the different orientations of family therapy schools and provide a foundation for understanding the fundamental concepts that underlie all approaches. By integrating these multiple models of therapy, or metaframeworks, you can improve the flexibility and comprehensiveness of your treatment?without having to abandon your training. Full of practical ideas, methods, and examples, Metaframeworks offers a wealth of guidelines for applying these innovative strategies to a wide range of clinical problems and populations.
The authors distill the central ideas from the many systems-based models of family therapy, add some concepts that have not been widely used before in family therapy, connect them all to one another in a new way, and apply these ideas to domains that family therapists have not explored from a systems perspective--domains such as intrapsychic process, human development, gender, and culture. For clinicians and theorists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface | ||
The Authors | ||
Pt. 1 | Foundations of the Metaframeworks Perspective | |
1 | A Conversation About Metaframeworks | 3 |
2 | The Metaframeworks Perspective | 19 |
Pt. 2 | Six Core Metaframeworks | |
3 | Of Mind and Self: The Internal Family Systems Metaframework | 57 |
4 | Patterns of Interaction: The Sequences Metaframework | 90 |
5 | Leadership, Balance, and Harmony: The Organization Metaframework | 125 |
6 | Beyond the One-Dimensional Life Cycle: The Development Metaframework | 158 |
7 | Unifying Diverse Parameters: The Multicultural Metaframework | 193 |
8 | Reweaving Feminism and Systems: The Gender Metaframework | 237 |
Pt. 3 | From Theory to Practice | |
9 | A Blueprint for Therapy | 281 |
10 | A Case in Point | 317 |
11 | Personalizing the Metaframeworks Perspective | 354 |
References | 373 | |
Index | 385 |