Therapeutic Alliances with Families - Empowering Clients in Challenging Cases (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts. Copious case examples illustrate how therapists can empower family members to discover their agency, find resources to address tough challenges, and especially repair their damaged relationships. These guidelines also show how to work effectively within multiple relationships in a family without compromising therapist focus, client individuality, or client safety. Included in the coverage: Using the therapeutic alliance to empower couples and families Couples' cross-complaints Engaging reluctant adolescents...and their parents Parenting in isolation, with or without a partner Child maltreatment: creating therapeutic alliances with survivors of relational trauma Disadvantaged, multi-stressed families: adrift in a sea of professional helpers Empowering through the alliance: a practical formulation Therapeutic Alliances with Families offers powerful new tools for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working in couple and family therapy cases with reluctant clients and seeking specific, practical case examples and resources for alliance-related interventions.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Focused Issues in Family Therapy
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Valentin Escudero • Myrna L. Friedlander
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-59368-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	3-319-59368-4
Barcode:	9783319593685

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