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This special edition of the classic text includes a new
introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing
influence on contemporary practice. One of family therapy's
foundational texts, Families and Family Therapy is as relevant
today as it has ever been. Examining the therapist's role, Dr.
Minuchin presents the views and strategies of a master clinician in
a clear and practical form. Transcripts of actual family
sessions-both with families meeting their problems fairly
successfully and those seeking help-are accompanied by a running
interpretation of what is taking place. The book constructs a model
of an effectively functioning family and defining the boundaries
around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or
sibling. It then explores the ways in which families adapt to
stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow.
Combining vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique,
and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families
and those seeking therapy, this is an important text for all those
interesting in the theory and practice of family therapy. This book
can be used on courses such as Family Therapy, Family
Interventions, Systemic Practice, and Systemic Counselling within
departments of Psychology, Mental Health, and Counselling; and by
undergraduate students on Social Work qualifying courses.
This cutting-edge second edition of The Craft of Family Therapy
revisits some of Salvador Minuchin's most famous cases, guiding
trainee therapists through basic techniques and ideas while
illuminating the unique voice of Minuchin as the founder of
Structural Family Therapy. The book begins by teaching readers the
fundamentals of family therapy through the lens of rich commentary
from Salvador Minuchin on some of his most interesting cases. It
then moves on to three detailed supervision transcripts from
Minuchin's former students, illustrating the struggles, fears, and
insecurities that new family therapists face and how they can
overcome them. In a new, ground-breaking third section, Reiter and
Borda share their own lessons from Minuchin as well as expand his
influential ideas, emphasizing a strength-based family therapy
approach. Written in an accessible, practical style, The Craft of
Family Therapy, 2nd edition draws on a wealth of fascinating case
examples to bring Minuchin's theory and experience to today's
family therapists and psychotherapists in practice and training.
This cutting-edge second edition of The Craft of Family Therapy
revisits some of Salvador Minuchin's most famous cases, guiding
trainee therapists through basic techniques and ideas while
illuminating the unique voice of Minuchin as the founder of
Structural Family Therapy. The book begins by teaching readers the
fundamentals of family therapy through the lens of rich commentary
from Salvador Minuchin on some of his most interesting cases. It
then moves on to three detailed supervision transcripts from
Minuchin's former students, illustrating the struggles, fears, and
insecurities that new family therapists face and how they can
overcome them. In a new, ground-breaking third section, Reiter and
Borda share their own lessons from Minuchin as well as expand his
influential ideas, emphasizing a strength-based family therapy
approach. Written in an accessible, practical style, The Craft of
Family Therapy, 2nd edition draws on a wealth of fascinating case
examples to bring Minuchin's theory and experience to today's
family therapists and psychotherapists in practice and training.
This special edition of the classic text includes a new
introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing
influence on contemporary practice. One of family therapy's
foundational texts, Families and Family Therapy is as relevant
today as it has ever been. Examining the therapist's role, Dr.
Minuchin presents the views and strategies of a master clinician in
a clear and practical form. Transcripts of actual family
sessions-both with families meeting their problems fairly
successfully and those seeking help-are accompanied by a running
interpretation of what is taking place. The book constructs a model
of an effectively functioning family and defining the boundaries
around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or
sibling. It then explores the ways in which families adapt to
stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow.
Combining vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique,
and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families
and those seeking therapy, this is an important text for all those
interesting in the theory and practice of family therapy. This book
can be used on courses such as Family Therapy, Family
Interventions, Systemic Practice, and Systemic Counselling within
departments of Psychology, Mental Health, and Counselling; and by
undergraduate students on Social Work qualifying courses.
At the center of people's lives is the family, which can be and
should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world.
Unfortunately, the source of people's greatest hope for happiness
often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments.
Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of
family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an
extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of
troubled families. Through the stories of families who have sought
his help, the reader is taken inside the consulting room to see how
families struggle with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Through
his confrontational style of therapy, Dr Minuchin demonstrates the
strict but unseen rules that trap family members in stifling roles,
and illuminates methods for helping families untangle systems of
disharmony. In Dr Minuchin's therapy there are no villains and no
victims, only people trying to deal with various problems at each
stage of the family life cycle. Minuchin understands the family as
a system of interconnected lives, not as a "dysfunctional" group.
Each story of a therapeutic encounter brings a new understanding of
familiar dilemmas and classic mistakes, and recounts Dr Minuchin's
creative solutions.
Family therapy trainees are inundated with a multitude of family
therapy theories. They also have difficulty shifting from an
individualistic view to one of seeing interactions and systems. How
do therapists hone their own methods with all of these choices? And
how do they learn how to best treat families with all of the focus
being taken away from their clients and redirected instead on
processes? Perhaps most importantly, how can they learn through an
inductive process of exploring what has occurred during the
therapeutic session? Veteran therapist and founder of Structural
Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin, goes back to basics with his two
co-authors Michael D. Reiter and Charmaine Borda in The Craft of
Family Therapy. In this book they teach readers basic communication
and family therapy skills using some of Dr. Minuchin's most
interesting and illuminating cases. Not only do readers re-learn
basic techniques, such as reframing and joining, but they are
treated to an in-depth commentary on each case, with Dr. Minuchin
emphasizing the techniques he uses that allow him to refocus
attention from the Identified Patient to the family as a whole. The
book ends with three supervision transcripts from Dr. Minuchin's
students, whose commentary illuminates the struggles, fears, and
insecurities that new family therapists face and how they can
overcome them. Each of these chapters ends with a consultation
interview that Dr. Minuchin conducted with each supervisee's case
family.
A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the
first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr.
Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and
his success at treatment.Now he explains in close detail those
precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book
thus codifies the method of one of the country's most successful
practitioners.
No other book in the field so fully combines vivid clinical
examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on
both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy.
The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here
in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly
from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own
styles and working situations. Salvador Minuchin presents six
chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessions-two devoted to
ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative
success; four concerned with families seeking help. Accompanying
each transcript is the author's running interpretation of what is
taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist's tactics
and maneuvers. These lively sessions are interpreted in a brilliant
theoretical analysis of why families develop problems and what it
takes to set them right. The author constructs a model of an
effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around
its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. He
discusses ways in which families adapt to stress from within and
without, as they seek to survive and grow. Dr. Minuchin describes
methods of diagnosing or "mapping" problems of the troubled family
and determining appropriate therapeutic goals and strategies.
Different situations, such as the extended family, the family with
a parental child, and the family in transition through death or
divorce, are examined. Finally, the author explores the dynamics of
change, examining the variety of restructuring operations that can
be employed to challenge a family and to change its basic patterns.
This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the
fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling
with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors. Grounded in
Salvador Minuchin's influential systemic model and the extensive
experience of all three highly regarded authors, the book
illustrates innovative ways for professionals within substance
abuse, foster care, and mental health contexts to build
collaboration with families and other helpers, and to elicit
families' strengths.New to This Edition: *Many new case
examples.*Discussions of exemplary programs.*Increased attention to
key factors that make agencies effective and enable them to
maintain a family focus over time.
With characteristic insight, compassion, and dry humor, the grand
master of family therapy Salvador Minuchin challenges us to
meditate on some of the most perplexing-and profound-questions of
the day: Why is our image of the ideal family so far from the
common reality? When we have such a rich literature of individual
psychology, why is the family comparatively neglected? Why does our
legal system promote confrontation rather than cooperation?
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