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Multi-generational Family Therapy reveals the limits of the medical
model in treating mental and relational problems. It instead
provides a toolkit for therapists, observing family functioning
over at least three generations to explore the developmental
history of the family in order to discover links between past
trauma and broken emotional bonds, and current problems experienced
by family members. Maurizio Andolfi honours the voices of children
in therapy and enlists them as the key to unlocking unresolved
family issues. The book provides an experiential model of
intervention that centres on creativity and humanity as the best
way to build an alliance and work with a family in crisis.
Demonstrating with case examples, Andolfi outlines the relational
skills and inner self of the therapist, focusing on the ability to
be direct, authentic and emphatic. The use of relational
questioning, silence, body language, physical contact and movement
in therapy are explored in depth. Multi-generational Family Therapy
will be of interest to anyone working with individuals, couples and
families including child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists,
psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors. It will also prove
useful to private practitioners, social workers, doctors,
paediatricians and educators
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book explores the concept of provocation in therapy,
emphasizing the fact that to be therapeutic, provocation must
always be accompanied by a joining attitude. It took a
developmental path that frames the individual in a trigenerational
dimension.
Please Help Me With This Family is based on the premise that it is
generally useful to expand the therapeutic system when it is not
working. By calling in additional resources when therapy reaches an
impasse, the therapist is giving two strong messages to "stuck"
families-(1)the admission of the failure of the present system to
grow beyond the impasse, and (2) a model of creativity in
recruiting resources to improve chances of success. Often, the
resources in the large system hold the keys to uncovering and
correcting troublesome relationships and behaviors in the smaller
system. Please Help Me With This Family is divided into four major
sections, each illustrating unique approaches and methods for
unlocking resources in family and therapeutic systems. The first
section opens with a comprehensive review of the theoretical roots
of family therapy consultation, followed by a discussion of the
different faces of consultation around the world; a detailed case
study of an anorectic family in which Maurizio Andolfi successfully
provokes a therapeutic impasse; and to which Carl Whitaker provides
fascinating insights into his role as a consultant. Section II
discusses the variety of consultative resources available in the
client system and how best to harness them. Chapters cover using
the child as consultant; using family of origin and friends as
resources; and the use of consultation in treating addictions.
Using colleagues as consultants is the focus of the third section.
Consultation has the advantage over cotherapy and supervision of
requiring only a brief, cost?effective relationship. Chapters
discuss how therapists can avoid replicating errors by working
closely with the client's previous therapist: an eco?systemic
approach with chronic pain sufferers that involves medical, family,
and community systems in Israel; using consultation to evaluate
therapy; the creative?preventive possibilities inherent in
collegial consultation; how a family therapist and school system
personnel can be mutually helpful with a conjoint problem; and a
consultation that focuses on the position of the therapist rather
than on the client system. Finally, Section IV addresses
consultation as a valuable form of professional development. It
explores the importance of timing when using a consultant; the
effects on five therapists of live case demonstrations with
Maurizio Andolfi as consultant; and consultation to correct gender
prejudice. Contributors to this volume include Vincenzo F.
DiNicola, Elizabeth Ridgely, Joseph Simons, David Keith, Jim
Guinan, William Jones, Lars Brok, Joel Elizur, Sara B. Jutoran,
Noga Rubinstein?Nabarro, Bob Wendt, Audrey Ellenwood, Peter
Liggett, Marsha Purvis, Mary Hotvedt, and Marcella de Nichilo.
Students and clinicians who wish to practice consulting as well as
family therapists who want to learn creative approaches to handling
the dilemmas that arise in therapy will find Please Help Me With
This Family to be an incomparable resource.
Dr. Maurizio Andolfi, "Andi" to my dog and me, is one of the fourth
generation family therapy theorists. This book, which he calls
"interac tional," is probably one you would not enjoy. Maybe you
could give it to a rival colleague on his birthday. Combining the
teachings of Zwerling and Laperriere with Ferber is confusing. Add
to that a Horney analysis and stir with two ounces of Minuchin and
a dram of Haley, and Andolfi becomes distracting to his friends and
colleagues. His work with Can crini reacculturated him somewhat,
but a Roman is a Roman, and, of course, he could not understand
such problems as those we conquer in the United States. Assuming
your rival is a well-trained, cause-and-effect thinker, you might
find ways to watch him squirm. If he has not tried paradoxical
methods, expect him to take a long vacation from work. If he is
already a good family therapist, he may become a bit hypomanic, and
his team may talk to you in private. Encourage them to suggest that
he work harder and stop reading the book or, better still, donate
it to the social work school library; they will read anything. If
the team complains that the book advises teaching sick families how
to be their own therapists, resist any impulse to check this out.
No family could become self reparative when it is already
dysfunctional. We know that professional help is the only hope.
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Multi-generational Family Therapy reveals the limits of the medical
model in treating mental and relational problems. It instead
provides a toolkit for therapists, observing family functioning
over at least three generations to explore the developmental
history of the family in order to discover links between past
trauma and broken emotional bonds, and current problems experienced
by family members. Maurizio Andolfi honours the voices of children
in therapy and enlists them as the key to unlocking unresolved
family issues. The book provides an experiential model of
intervention that centres on creativity and humanity as the best
way to build an alliance and work with a family in crisis.
Demonstrating with case examples, Andolfi outlines the relational
skills and inner self of the therapist, focusing on the ability to
be direct, authentic and emphatic. The use of relational
questioning, silence, body language, physical contact and movement
in therapy are explored in depth. Multi-generational Family Therapy
will be of interest to anyone working with individuals, couples and
families including child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists,
psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors. It will also prove
useful to private practitioners, social workers, doctors,
paediatricians and educators
Teen Voices: Tales from Family Therapy addresses violent behavior,
bullying, drug addiction, reactive depression, eating disorders,
and suicidal attempts in adolescence, from a systemic developmental
perspective. Refocusing from adolescents' disorders as personal, we
enlarge the field we focus on, to consider the family as our client
and as the main resource for resolving children's problems (or
symptoms). Here the larger goal of therapy is the change of the
various inter-generational distortions that produce these symptoms.
The model of therapy described and presented is experiential - the
therapist plays an active role, being direct, authentic, emphatic,
and able to stay close to the clients' pain and despair, and to
respond positively to their hope and desire for change. The main
tools used to create a therapeutic alliance with the adolescent and
to explore relevant family events are illustrated: provocation,
support, humor, metaphors, curiosity, playfulness, self-disclosure,
and sculpting. The family of origin, siblings, friends, pets,
community members, and hospital workers are all included as
consultants in the sessions, expanding the social resources of the
family searching for emotional support and solidarity.
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