List Books » Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth
Authors: Collie Wyatt Conoley, Jane Close Conoley
ISBN-13: 9780470262771, ISBN-10: 047026277X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: New Edition
Collie W. Conoley, PhD, is a Professor of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of the National Health Service Providers of Psychology.
Jane Close Conoley, PhD, serves as Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of twenty-one books, over seventy chapters, and numerous refereed journal articles.
An affirming guide equipping family therapists to effectively incorporate positive psychology within their practices
The next step in the evolution of family therapy, positive psychology has enabled family therapists to help familieswhatever their formto build upon their strengths, overcome dysfunction, and move to new levels of harmony and thriving. Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth integrates positive psychology into traditional family therapy, presenting therapists with best-practice wisdom and evidence-based clinical tools to help turn dysfunctional or troubled families into flourishing families.
Contributing a unique perspective to the field that combines the research, practice, and theory associated with the latest in positive psychology and family therapy, Positive Psychology and Family Therapy equips therapists to cultivate virtues, such as empathy, kindness, responsibility, involvement, social justice, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and volunteerism.
Filled with homework assignments and exercises that integrate positive techniques and interventions, this book establishes and promotes the family as the basic building block of the individual and the community. Offering therapists with no previous introduction to positive psychology a solid foundation, this text includes essential discussion of family interventions and techniques that demonstrate positive family therapy, as well as case examples that bring the concepts covered to life in real and accessible scenarios.
Authors Collie Conoley and Jane Close Conoley draw from their years of experience working with families to offer an integrated, practical approach that allows family therapists to utilize positive psychology principles effectively within their practices.
Foreword ix
1 The Foundational Constructs of Positive Family Therapy 1
2 Techniques in Positive Family Therapy 25
3 Family Interventions Enriching Positive Family Therapy 53
4 Positive Family Therapy Case Examples 93
5 Wrap Up and Future Directions 125
References 135
Author Index 155
Subject Index 165