In his acclaimed book A Theory of Personality Development, Luciano
L'Abate introduced a revolutionary theory of personality
development and functioning that departed radically from
traditional theories. In place of hypothetical traits existing in
an empirical vacuum, Dr. L'Abate offered an image of observable
interpersonal competencies functioning within the basic contexts of
home, work, leisure, and the marketplace. Central to his theory was
a developmental model that posited the family as the primordial
setting in which propensities are formed and behavior patterns set.
By defining personality in terms of the growth and interplay of
interpersonal competencies, the L'Abate theory provided an
epistemologically and empirically sound basis for understanding
personality function and dysfunction as corollaries and extensions
of one another.
In The Self in the Family, Luciano L'Abate and Margaret Baggett
again break new ground by expanding the L'Abate theory of
personality development to encompass criminal and
psychopathological behavior. Drawing upon mounting empirical
evidence that the family paradigm is the major determinant of
personality socialization throughout the life span, the authors
develop a selfhood model with demonstrable links between the three
domains of personality function, criminality, and psychopathology.
With the help of the model, they show how it is now possible to
arrive at a personality-based interpretation of most deviant
behaviors, including criminality, psychopathology, addictions, and
even psychosomatic illnesses, and they describe various preventive
and psychotherapeutic applications for this expanded theory of
family-based personality development.
The authors further elaborate on the theories developed in Dr.
L'Abate's previous books by introducing the core concepts of
hurt--the basic feeling underlying much of personality functioning
and dysfunctioning--and a continuum of likeness--the fundamental
determinant of interpersonal choices and behavior in friendships,
parent-child relations, and marital relations.
Offering an empirically rigorous, developmentally based, unified
field theory of personality function, criminality, and
psychopathology, The Self in the Family is essential reading for
developmental and clinical psychologists, family therapists,
personality theorists, and criminality and psychopathology
researchers.
CHILD-CENTERED FAMILY THERAPY
Lucille L. Andreozzi
This book is the first complete introduction to the
Child-Centered Structural Dynamic Therapy Model--a revolutionary,
short-term treatment model which helps integrate child and family
system development into a comprehensive framework for self-guided,
family-initiated change. This guide, with its numerous case
illustrations, works to build knowledge from within the family by
engaging family members in structured activities that help them
translate family system principles into practical, everyday
reality. Child-Centered Family Therapy is an important resource for
couples and family therapists, child psychologists, counselors, and
social workers.
1996 (0-471-14858-X) 374 pp.
TREATING THE CHANGING FAMILY
Handling Normative and Unusual Events
Edited by Michele Harway
This inimitable book offers a broad-ranging, carefully
integrated review of contemporary trends in family therapy,
research, and practice. It reexamines the family and the many
challenges to its function and provides practical advice for
therapists who treat troubled families. It explores the impact that
non-normative events such as violence and abuse, addiction,
long-term and chronic illness, divorce, adoption, trauma, and many
others can have on family function and provides proven intervention
strategies and techniques for treating these families. With the
special attention given to the structure, dynamics, and unique
problems of families that do not fit the traditional mold, such as
binuclear, single-parent, and gay and lesbian families, Treating
the Changing Family is a valuable resource for all mental health
professionals and families.
1995 (0-471-07905-7) 374 pp.
Also in the Series:
HANDBOOK OF RELATIONAL DIAGNOSIS AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
PATTERNS
Florence W. Kaslow, Editor
1996 (0-471-08078-0) 592 pp.
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