Casebook for integrating family therapy : an ecosystemic approach /

Casebook for integrating family therapy : an ecosystemic approach /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Family psychotherapy -- Case studies.
Ecological family therapy -- Case studies.
Family Therapy -- methods.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Family -- psychology.
Life Change Events.
Social Environment.
Ecological family therapy.
Family psychotherapy.
Case Reports.
Case studies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143005
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Other authors / contributors:McDaniel, Susan H.
Lusterman, Don-David.
Philpot, Carol L.
ISBN:1557987491
9781557987495
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Integration in family therapy involves incorporating modalities, such as individual, couples, and family therapy, as well as integrating schools of interventions, such as here-and-now, transgenerational, and other systemic approaches. /// In this volume, family therapists present cases that illustrate such integration from an ecosystemic perspective that takes into account the multiple systems in which the family is embedded. Cases highlight integrative interventions in which a family's ethnicity, religion, health status, socioeconomic class, or sexual orientation are particularly important and include work with couples and families in transition and at various developmental stages, from early marriage through late life. /// After briefly anchoring each case in the theoretical model from which they work, the therapists describe not only how they intervened with each case, but also how they thought about the case at critical decision points throughout the therapy. They explain why they included some members in sessions but not others and why they focused on some issues to the exclusion of others. When impasses are reached, the therapists are candid in describing their struggles to find a "good enough" solution. This book is intended for both the experienced and novice therapist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
Other form:Print version: Casebook for integrating family therapy. 1st ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001 1557987491
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction to Integrative Ecosystemic Family Therapy
  • Part I. Couples
  • 2. Conducting Integrative Therapy Over Time: A Case Example of Open-Ended Therapy
  • 3. The Tapestry of Couple Therapy: Interweaving Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
  • 4. The Therapist in the Crucible: Early Developments in a New Paradigm of Sexual and Marital Therapy
  • 5. When Roads Diverge: A Case Study With a Gay Male Couple
  • 6. "Our Company Is Downsizing": Couple and Individual Therapy for Work-Related and Systems Issues
  • 7. Opportunities for Clarity, Understanding, and Choice: The Practice of Divorce Mediation
  • Part II. Families in Transition
  • 8. A Baby, Maybe: Crossing the Parenthood Threshold
  • 9. Dreams Now and then: Conversations About a Family's Struggles From a Collaborative Language Systems Approach
  • 10. Therapy With Stepfamilies: A Developmental Systems Approach
  • 11. Widening the Lens: Engaging a Family in Transition
  • 12. The Case of the "Expendable" Elder: Family Therapy With an Older Depressed Man
  • Part III. Culture, Religion, Social Class, and Ethnicity
  • 13. Taking Sides: A White Intern Encounters an African American Family
  • 14. Using Contradiction: Family Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
  • 15. The Misfit: A Deaf Adolescent Struggles for Meaning
  • 16. Grief and Cultural Transition: A Journey Out of Despair
  • 17. Religious and Cultural Issues in Ecosystemic Therapy: A Therapist in the Flow
  • 18. Steps Toward a Culture and Migration Dialogue: Developing a Framework for Therapy With Immigrant Families
  • Part IV. Gender
  • 19. Integrating Gender and Family Systems Theories: The "Both/And" Approach to Treating a Postmodern Couple
  • 20. Someday My Prince Will Come
  • 21. Developing Gender Awareness: When Therapist Growth Promotes Family Growth
  • 22. Rediscovery of Belovedness
  • Part V. Families Coping with Physical Illness
  • 23. "We're at the Breaking Point": Family Distress and Competence in Serious Childhood Illness
  • 24. A Sneaky Teenager With Diabetes in Context: Stretching Minuchin's Psychosomatic Model
  • 25. Her Right Foot: Pain, Integration, and the Biopsychosocial Model
  • 26. Honoring the Integration of Mind and Body: A Patient With Chronic Pain
  • 27. Differentiation Before Death: Medical Family Therapy for a Woman With End-Stage Crohn's Disease and Her Son
  • 28. HIV/AIDS, Families, and the Wider Caregiving System
  • Part VI. Families Coping with Serious Mental Illness
  • 29. From Three Languages to One: Integrating Individual, Family, and Biological Perspectives in the Treatment of Affective Disorders
  • 30. Integrating Psychiatric Illness Into Healthy Family Functioning: The Family Psychoeducational Treatment of a Patient With Bipolar Disorder
  • 31. The Consequences of Caring: Mutual Healing of Family and Therapists Following a Suicide
  • Part VII. Supervision
  • 32. Integrative Supervision: A Metaframeworks Perspective
  • 33. Using the Multisystems Model With An African American Family: Cross-Racial Therapy and Supervision
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
  • About the Editors

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