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The Contemporary Relational Supervisor, 2nd edition, is an
empirically based, academically sophisticated, and learner-friendly
text on the cutting edge of couple and family therapy supervision.
This extensively revised second edition provides emerging
supervisors with the conceptual and pragmatic tools to engage a new
wave of therapists, helping them move forward together into a world
of highly systemic, empirically derived, relational, developmental,
and integrative supervision and clinical practice. The authors
discuss major supervision models and approaches, evaluation,
ethical and legal issues, and therapist development. They present
methods that help tailor and extend supervision practices to meet
the clinical, institutional, economic, and cultural realities that
CFT therapists navigate. Filled with discussions and exercises to
engage readers throughout, as well as updates surrounding
telehealth and social justice, this practical text helps emerging
therapists feel more grounded in their knowledge and develop their
own personal voice. The book is intended for developing and
experienced clinicians and supervisors intent on acquiring
up-to-date and forward-looking, systemic, CFT supervisory mastery.
You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions
in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists
discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they
offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy:
Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists,
psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together
to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how
they?ve learned that often the clients know more than they do As
you will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the
top-notch and most innovative theories in the world won?t help a
client in distress.Tales from Family Therapy isn?t just about
therapists learning a lesson or two from their clients. It's about
compassion, healing, being taken by surprise, thinking on your
toes, and encouraging people to believe in their strengths--not
just their weaknesses. These stories represent to the authors some
of the most special, most rewarding, and most puzzling moments in
all their years of therapy. They invite you to share in their
recollections and discussions of: the power of speaking accepting,
respecting, and working with the realities clients bring the
importance of first impressions in counseling how personal
narratives develop through relationship coloring outside the lines
of the dominant culture helping clients determine when rocking the
boat is needed listening to your clients and not just your theories
developing the self-of-therapist In the therapy room anything can
happen, and as Tales from Family Therapy shows, anything does.
Graduate students, counselors, licensed therapists, family
educators, and family sciences professionals, as well as lay
readers, will find this insightful book a helpful forum where the
struggles, doubts, and triumphs of psychotherapy are revealed to
encourage and inspire those who participate in the therapeutic
process.
The Contemporary Relational Supervisor, 2nd edition, is an
empirically based, academically sophisticated, and learner-friendly
text on the cutting edge of couple and family therapy supervision.
This extensively revised second edition provides emerging
supervisors with the conceptual and pragmatic tools to engage a new
wave of therapists, helping them move forward together into a world
of highly systemic, empirically derived, relational, developmental,
and integrative supervision and clinical practice. The authors
discuss major supervision models and approaches, evaluation,
ethical and legal issues, and therapist development. They present
methods that help tailor and extend supervision practices to meet
the clinical, institutional, economic, and cultural realities that
CFT therapists navigate. Filled with discussions and exercises to
engage readers throughout, as well as updates surrounding
telehealth and social justice, this practical text helps emerging
therapists feel more grounded in their knowledge and develop their
own personal voice. The book is intended for developing and
experienced clinicians and supervisors intent on acquiring
up-to-date and forward-looking, systemic, CFT supervisory mastery.
Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings showcases the
dynamism of systemic family therapy supervision/consultation as it
expands beyond typical and historical traditions. In this unique
collection, contributors write about their innovations, unexpected
learnings, and "perfect accidents" in the context of systemic
therapy. These essays highlight creative approaches to supervision,
present a wide variety of clinical cases and therapy settings, and
demonstrate how training takes place in real time. Each chapter
illustrates increasingly diverse settings in which systemic family
therapy services are delivered, whether in public mental health
care for families across high-, low-, and middle-income countries,
in areas of armed conflict or instability due to political violence
or war, or stable, liberal democracies with robust public mental
health systems. Each setting of supervision is extraordinary in the
way it supports family therapy service delivery. Given the wide
variation in access to systemic family therapy services, and the
diverse settings in which systemic family therapy services are
delivered, a set of brief, specific, and lively cases is called for
that focus on the dynamic nature of a family therapy supervision
and consultation interaction and its influence on clients,
trainees, and supervisors. Working as a family therapist in the
world today, an era of global mental health, is as full of wonder
and challenge as it was in the time family therapy originated as a
profession. It is thus no accident that supervision and
consultation work is just as extraordinary. This book will be
essential reading for family therapy and counseling supervisors, as
well as a helpful reference for supervisees.
Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings showcases the
dynamism of systemic family therapy supervision/consultation as it
expands beyond typical and historical traditions. In this unique
collection, contributors write about their innovations, unexpected
learnings, and "perfect accidents" in the context of systemic
therapy. These essays highlight creative approaches to supervision,
present a wide variety of clinical cases and therapy settings, and
demonstrate how training takes place in real time. Each chapter
illustrates increasingly diverse settings in which systemic family
therapy services are delivered, whether in public mental health
care for families across high-, low-, and middle-income countries,
in areas of armed conflict or instability due to political violence
or war, or stable, liberal democracies with robust public mental
health systems. Each setting of supervision is extraordinary in the
way it supports family therapy service delivery. Given the wide
variation in access to systemic family therapy services, and the
diverse settings in which systemic family therapy services are
delivered, a set of brief, specific, and lively cases is called for
that focus on the dynamic nature of a family therapy supervision
and consultation interaction and its influence on clients,
trainees, and supervisors. Working as a family therapist in the
world today, an era of global mental health, is as full of wonder
and challenge as it was in the time family therapy originated as a
profession. It is thus no accident that supervision and
consultation work is just as extraordinary. This book will be
essential reading for family therapy and counseling supervisors, as
well as a helpful reference for supervisees.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a
systemic perspective and provides students, educators, trainers,
and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of
SFBT and systemic family therapy. Family therapists will learn how
SFBT works with families, solution-focused therapists will learn
how a systemic understanding of clients and their contexts can
enhance their work, and all will learn how to harness the power of
each to the service of their clients. The book starts with an
exploration of systems, cybernetics, and communication theory
basics such as wholeness, recursion, homeostasis, and change.
Following this is an introduction to five fundamental family
therapy approaches and an overview of Solution-Focused Brief
Therapy. Next, the author considers SFBT within a systems paradigm
and provides a demonstration of SFBT with families and couples.
Each step is explicated with ideas from both SFBTA as well as
systems. The final chapter shows how SFBT practices can be applied
to a variety of family therapy approaches. This accessible text is
enhanced by descriptions, case examples, dialogue, and commentary
that are both systemic and solution-focused. Readers will come away
with a new appreciation for both the systemic worldview of SFBT and
SFBT principles as applied to systemic work.
Many books on solution-focused brief therapy provide histories,
overviews, and uses of the approach. Doing Something Different does
not do any of those things. Instead, it provides those interested
in the solution-focused approach with a plethora of ideas for
practice, training, and simply enjoying the solution-focused
approach and its practice in therapy, consulting, coaching, and
training. It contains a varied and rich array of interventions,
training ideas, uses with different populations and approaches, and
resources written by contributors who represent many countries and
viewpoints, and who are well known in the training and practice of
the solution-focused approach. Chapters are presented in simple
language, as befits the solution-focused approach, and complement
the many serious and whimsical sections of the book, which include
practice and training ideas, favorite quotes and stories,
"outrageous" moments in therapy, and a list of solution-focused
songs. Anyone who enjoys the approach in any manner should find
something that grabs the interest and tickles the senses and
sensibilities. Readers will come away informed, thoughtful, and
entertained.
Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness
Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on
simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by
focusing on a patient's personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these
established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing
effect on a patient. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term
Clients in Mental Health Services is a practical introduction and
guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking
about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of
the mental health system. Through interviews, case studies, and
actual client testimony, this valuable text demonstrates the most
effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that
forge collaborative relationships, realize strengths, and use them
to move toward healing. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with
Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a strength-based
approach that utilizes a client's personal and social resources to
help them find a satisfactory solution to the sources of their need
for professional help. This book offers a unique approach that can
be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for
many years and may remain so. Accessible and useable, this guide
explores the meaning of conventional diagnosis and treatment and
how both can actually reinforce the client's disability,
chronicity, and sense of helplessness as a person. Topics
Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental
Health Services covers include: the tools of solution-focused brief
practice working with borderline personality disorder adaptability
and application to different contexts reading the client during
discussion sessions emphasizing an individual's healthy parts the
role of community support rethinking the medical model implementing
solution-focused practices in agencies and hospitals
poststructuralism, social constructionism, and language games and
many more! Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients
in Mental Health Services is extensively referenced with a detailed
bibliography. It is an essential resource for psychiatrists, social
workers, psychologists, family therapists, counselors, nurse
practitioners, and schools of social work and family therapy
training programs. Staff of inpatient psychiatric hospitals,
psycho-social clubs, and community mental health clinics will also
benefit from this indispensable text.
An invaluable guide to the history, descriptions of practice
strategies, and applications of SFBT! The Handbook of
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a unique, comprehensive guide
that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in
learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief
Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations with clients. Noted experts
discuss the therapy practices and various uses for the approach in
detail, which focuses on encouraging clients to look at exceptions,
times when the problem could have occurred and did not, and goals
and future possibilities. A history of the practice model and its
interventions is discussed, along with limitations, descriptions of
practice strategies, applications to specific client populations,
and clinical problems and concerns. This useful resource also
includes an illustrative case study that uses the SFBT model. The
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy first lays a foundation
of knowledge, providing chapters on the crucial assumptions and
practices, history, and epistemology behind the approach. Further
chapters use that basis to explain the application of the approach
with several clinical issues and various populations, including
couples, depression, domestic violence, schools, children, pastoral
work, therapist burnout, and a few outside therapy room
applications. Other chapters focus on the important issues in
therapist training and supervision. Extensive references are
provided at the end of each chapter. Topics discussed in the
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy include: assumptions
within the SFBT tradition history of the SFBT approach epistemology
SFBT with couples depression domestic violence offenders public
schools children and young people SFBT in faith-based communities
assessing and relieving burnout in mental health practice SFBT
beyond the therapy room supervision of training possible
limitations, misunderstandings, and misuses of SFBT a tribute to
the late Steven de Shazer, co-founder of the SFBT approach The
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is an invaluable
reference for all types of therapists, including psychologists,
counselors, social workers, and family therapists at any level of
experience, including students, trainees, and experienced
therapists.
Inside 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll discover
many revolutionary and flexible strategies for family counseling
intervention that you can tailor, amend, and apply in your own
practice. Designed to appeal to professionals of beginning,
intermediate, or advanced level status, 101 More Interventions in
Family Therapy caters to an even broader range of ethnic, racial,
gender, and class contexts than did its well-received predecessor,
101 Interventions in Family Therapy. You'll also find that this
volume encompasses a wider variety of family therapy orientations,
including strategic, behavioral, family of origin,
solution-focused, and narrative.In 101 More Interventions in Family
Therapy, you'll have at your fingertips a collection of favorite,
tried-and-true interventions compiled, revised, and delivered to
you by the professionals who use them--the clinicians themselves.
You'll gain valuable insight into: effective and useful assessment
strategies therapy that addresses school and career problems
questions to use in solution-focused therapy questions to use in
narrative therapy ideas for resolving intergenerational issues Too
often, the in-the-trenches accounts you need to help add variety
and a high success rate to your own practice come to you piecemeal
in journals or newsletters. But in 101 More Interventions in Family
Therapy, you'll find 101 handy, easy-to-read, and fun ways to
modify your own therapeutic styles for a truly diverse variety of
clientele and settings right where you want them--in one volume, in
one place. Even after a few chapters, you'll discover 101 reasons
to be happy with the prospect of improving your practice.
Specifically, some of the interesting tips and techniques you'll
read about include: applying theater techniques to family therapy
using an alarm clock and rubber band as props in clinical practice
with children, couples, and families utilizing the "play baby"
intervention to coach parents on ways to address their child(ren)'s
concerns adopting a "Columbo therapy" approach--one in which the
therapist acts confused and asks questions out of a genuine
curiosity about the client's experience--to take a one-down
position with clients creating a safe space in therapy and helping
clients transfer it into their lives using homework to increase the
likelihood of producing desired therapeutic outcomes
You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions
in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists
discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they
offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy:
Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists,
psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together
to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how they
ve learned that often the clients know more than they do As you
will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the
top-notch and most innovative theories in the world won t help a
client in distress.Tales from Family Therapy isn t just about
therapists learning a lesson or two from their clients. It s about
compassion, healing, being taken by surprise, thinking on your
toes, and encouraging people to believe in their strengths--not
just their weaknesses. These stories represent to the authors some
of the most special, most rewarding, and most puzzling moments in
all their years of therapy. They invite you to share in their
recollections and discussions of: the power of speaking accepting,
respecting, and working with the realities clients bring the
importance of first impressions in counseling how personal
narratives develop through relationship coloring outside the lines
of the dominant culture helping clients determine when rocking the
boat is needed listening to your clients and not just your theories
developing the self-of-therapist In the therapy room anything can
happen, and as Tales from Family Therapy shows, anything does.
Graduate students, counselors, licensed therapists, family
educators, and family sciences professionals, as well as lay
readers, will find this insightful book a helpful forum where the
struggles, doubts, and triumphs of psychotherapy are revealed to
encourage and inspire those who participate in the therapeutic
process.
Here is an exciting collection of favorite and successful family
therapy interventions from therapists which inspire more creative
therapy methods in your own practice. 101 Interventions in Family
Therapy features contributions by a diverse group of well-known
leaders in the field, "therapists on the street," and faculty of
family therapy training programs. Each clinician presents a
creative and useful intervention beginning with a complete
description of the method, followed by the specific indications and
contraindications for its application, and concludes with a
particular case illustration. These engaging and informative
stories document helpful interventions that really work, not the
exotic and impractical methods of prolific marriage and family
authors. Therapists at all levels can learn and incorporate these
into their work with families. Practicing clinicians will learn
what works for other therapists while graduate-level students and
beginning counselors will benefit from the integration of theory
and practice exemplified in the practical case examples. The rich
and varied writing styles in this enjoyable volume reflect a
multitude of personal therapeutic styles. You will find valuable
insight and innovative treatment methods on critical family therapy
topics such as eating disorders, the adolescent years, marriage
counseling, stepfamilies, divorce therapy, communication
difficulties, and conflicts with dual career couples. The
smorgasbord of interventions found in this book include
bibliotherapy, use of touch, creative use of space, ritual
enactment, gift-giving, storytelling and countless other
interventions, both revolutionary and commonsense, to enhance and
improve your therapy with families.
An invaluable guide to the history, descriptions of practice
strategies, and applications of SFBT! The Handbook of
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a unique, comprehensive guide
that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in
learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief
Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations with clients. Noted experts
discuss the therapy practices and various uses for the approach in
detail, which focuses on encouraging clients to look at exceptions,
times when the problem could have occurred and did not, and goals
and future possibilities. A history of the practice model and its
interventions is discussed, along with limitations, descriptions of
practice strategies, applications to specific client populations,
and clinical problems and concerns. This useful resource also
includes an illustrative case study that uses the SFBT model. The
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy first lays a foundation
of knowledge, providing chapters on the crucial assumptions and
practices, history, and epistemology behind the approach. Further
chapters use that basis to explain the application of the approach
with several clinical issues and various populations, including
couples, depression, domestic violence, schools, children, pastoral
work, therapist burnout, and a few outside therapy room
applications. Other chapters focus on the important issues in
therapist training and supervision. Extensive references are
provided at the end of each chapter. Topics discussed in the
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy include: assumptions
within the SFBT tradition history of the SFBT approach epistemology
SFBT with couples depression domestic violence offenders public
schools children and young people SFBT in faith-based communities
assessing and relieving burnout in mental health practice SFBT
beyond the therapy room supervision of training possible
limitations, misunderstandings, and misuses of SFBT a tribute to
the late Steven de Shazer, co-founder of the SFBT approach The
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is an invaluable
reference for all types of therapists, including psychologists,
counselors, social workers, and family therapists at any level of
experience, including students, trainees, and experienced
therapists.
The one-of-a-kind book that provides training exercises
illustrating solution-focused brief therapy! As we recognize our
own problem behavior in our lives, most of us struggle for ways to
change it. Solution-focused brief therapy is the highly effective
practice that works by changing concentration from 'problem'
behavior to 'solution' behavior in just a few sessions. Education
and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy presents articles,
essays, and a multitude of exercises that explain this unique type
of therapy with an eye toward helping readers to use the ideas for
use in their own training and practice. Detailed descriptions of
training workshops and exercises spotlight the experiences of SFBT
therapists to illuminate in-depth basic concepts and strategies.
Education and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy relies on
two fundamental ideas, that of a therapist discovering and
reinforcing a clients' existing solutions and exceptions to the
problem. Expert trainers discuss strategies that work for training
and practicing Solution-focused brief therapy. Several exercises
for clients are examined, as well as exercises for the training and
supervision of other practitioners learning the process. Exercises
include The Name Game, the Complaining Exercise, Inside and
Outside, the 'Deck of Trumps,' and the Solution-Focused Scavenger
Hunt. Each chapter explains the circumstances in which to use each
exercise, the best ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to stay
on track in the teaching or training. This one-of-a-kind book
includes helpful tables, thorough questionnaires, penetrating case
studies, and each chapter is extensively referenced. Education and
Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy discusses brief therapy
principles such as: negotiating goals engagement through
complimenting future orientation language should be imaginative and
positive explanations and actions taken to solve problems are
interconnected challenging the perceived causes of problems
reframing the problem so that it becomes a friend acknowledgement
and acceptance of client Education and Training in Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy brings together essential ideas, suggestions,
strategies, and exercises for solution-focused brief therapy
training, making this an invaluable resource for solution-focused
brief therapists and therapists who teach and train this form of
therapy.
Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness
Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on
simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by
focusing on a patient's personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these
established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing
effect on a patient. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term
Clients in Mental Health Services is a practical introduction and
guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking
about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of
the mental health system. Through interviews, case studies, and
actual client testimony, this valuable text demonstrates the most
effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that
forge collaborative relationships, realize strengths, and use them
to move toward healing. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with
Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a strength-based
approach that utilizes a client's personal and social resources to
help them find a satisfactory solution to the sources of their need
for professional help. This book offers a unique approach that can
be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for
many years and may remain so. Accessible and useable, this guide
explores the meaning of conventional diagnosis and treatment and
how both can actually reinforce the client's disability,
chronicity, and sense of helplessness as a person. Topics
Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental
Health Services covers include: the tools of solution-focused brief
practice working with borderline personality disorder adaptability
and application to different contexts reading the client during
discussion sessions emphasizing an individual's healthy parts the
role of community support rethinking the medical model implementing
solution-focused practices in agencies and hospitals
poststructuralism, social constructionism, and language games and
many more! Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients
in Mental Health Services is extensively referenced with a detailed
bibliography. It is an essential resource for psychiatrists, social
workers, psychologists, family therapists, counselors, nurse
practitioners, and schools of social work and family therapy
training programs. Staff of inpatient psychiatric hospitals,
psycho-social clubs, and community mental health clinics will also
benefit from this indispensable text.
The one-of-a-kind book that provides training exercises
illustrating solution-focused brief therapy! As we recognize our
own problem behavior in our lives, most of us struggle for ways to
change it. Solution-focused brief therapy is the highly effective
practice that works by changing concentration from 'problem'
behavior to 'solution' behavior in just a few sessions. Education
and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy presents articles,
essays, and a multitude of exercises that explain this unique type
of therapy with an eye toward helping readers to use the ideas for
use in their own training and practice. Detailed descriptions of
training workshops and exercises spotlight the experiences of SFBT
therapists to illuminate in-depth basic concepts and strategies.
Education and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy relies on
two fundamental ideas, that of a therapist discovering and
reinforcing a clients' existing solutions and exceptions to the
problem. Expert trainers discuss strategies that work for training
and practicing Solution-focused brief therapy. Several exercises
for clients are examined, as well as exercises for the training and
supervision of other practitioners learning the process. Exercises
include The Name Game, the Complaining Exercise, Inside and
Outside, the 'Deck of Trumps,' and the Solution-Focused Scavenger
Hunt. Each chapter explains the circumstances in which to use each
exercise, the best ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to stay
on track in the teaching or training. This one-of-a-kind book
includes helpful tables, thorough questionnaires, penetrating case
studies, and each chapter is extensively referenced. Education and
Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy discusses brief therapy
principles such as: negotiating goals engagement through
complimenting future orientation language should be imaginative and
positive explanations and actions taken to solve problems are
interconnected challenging the perceived causes of problems
reframing the problem so that it becomes a friend acknowledgement
and acceptance of client Education and Training in Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy brings together essential ideas, suggestions,
strategies, and exercises for solution-focused brief therapy
training, making this an invaluable resource for solution-focused
brief therapists and therapists who teach and train this form of
therapy.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a
systemic perspective and provides students, educators, trainers,
and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of
SFBT and systemic family therapy. Family therapists will learn how
SFBT works with families, solution-focused therapists will learn
how a systemic understanding of clients and their contexts can
enhance their work, and all will learn how to harness the power of
each to the service of their clients. The book starts with an
exploration of systems, cybernetics, and communication theory
basics such as wholeness, recursion, homeostasis, and change.
Following this is an introduction to five fundamental family
therapy approaches and an overview of Solution-Focused Brief
Therapy. Next, the author considers SFBT within a systems paradigm
and provides a demonstration of SFBT with families and couples.
Each step is explicated with ideas from both SFBTA as well as
systems. The final chapter shows how SFBT practices can be applied
to a variety of family therapy approaches. This accessible text is
enhanced by descriptions, case examples, dialogue, and commentary
that are both systemic and solution-focused. Readers will come away
with a new appreciation for both the systemic worldview of SFBT and
SFBT principles as applied to systemic work.
Inside 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll discover
many revolutionary and flexible strategies for family counseling
intervention that you can tailor, amend, and apply in your own
practice. Designed to appeal to professionals of beginning,
intermediate, or advanced level status, 101 More Interventions in
Family Therapy caters to an even broader range of ethnic, racial,
gender, and class contexts than did its well-received predecessor,
101 Interventions in Family Therapy. You'll also find that this
volume encompasses a wider variety of family therapy orientations,
including strategic, behavioral, family of origin,
solution-focused, and narrative.In 101 More Interventions in Family
Therapy, you'll have at your fingertips a collection of favorite,
tried-and-true interventions compiled, revised, and delivered to
you by the professionals who use them--the clinicians themselves.
You'll gain valuable insight into: effective and useful assessment
strategies therapy that addresses school and career problems
questions to use in solution-focused therapy questions to use in
narrative therapy ideas for resolving intergenerational issues Too
often, the in-the-trenches accounts you need to help add variety
and a high success rate to your own practice come to you piecemeal
in journals or newsletters. But in 101 More Interventions in Family
Therapy, you'll find 101 handy, easy-to-read, and fun ways to
modify your own therapeutic styles for a truly diverse variety of
clientele and settings right where you want them--in one volume, in
one place. Even after a few chapters, you'll discover 101 reasons
to be happy with the prospect of improving your practice.
Specifically, some of the interesting tips and techniques you'll
read about include: applying theater techniques to family therapy
using an alarm clock and rubber band as props in clinical practice
with children, couples, and families utilizing the "play baby"
intervention to coach parents on ways to address their child(ren)'s
concerns adopting a "Columbo therapy" approach--one in which the
therapist acts confused and asks questions out of a genuine
curiosity about the client's experience--to take a one-down
position with clients creating a safe space in therapy and helping
clients transfer it into their lives using homework to increase the
likelihood of producing desired therapeutic outcomes
Here is an exciting collection of favorite and successful family
therapy interventions from therapists which inspire more creative
therapy methods in your own practice. 101 Interventions in Family
Therapy features contributions by a diverse group of well-known
leaders in the field, "therapists on the street," and faculty of
family therapy training programs. Each clinician presents a
creative and useful intervention beginning with a complete
description of the method, followed by the specific indications and
contraindications for its application, and concludes with a
particular case illustration. These engaging and informative
stories document helpful interventions that really work, not the
exotic and impractical methods of prolific marriage and family
authors. Therapists at all levels can learn and incorporate these
into their work with families. Practicing clinicians will learn
what works for other therapists while graduate-level students and
beginning counselors will benefit from the integration of theory
and practice exemplified in the practical case examples. The rich
and varied writing styles in this enjoyable volume reflect a
multitude of personal therapeutic styles. You will find valuable
insight and innovative treatment methods on critical family therapy
topics such as eating disorders, the adolescent years, marriage
counseling, stepfamilies, divorce therapy, communication
difficulties, and conflicts with dual career couples. The
smorgasbord of interventions found in this book include
bibliotherapy, use of touch, creative use of space, ritual
enactment, gift-giving, storytelling and countless other
interventions, both revolutionary and commonsense, to enhance and
improve your therapy with families.
Many books on solution-focused brief therapy provide histories,
overviews, and uses of the approach. Doing Something Different does
not do any of those things. Instead, it provides those interested
in the solution-focused approach with a plethora of ideas for
practice, training, and simply enjoying the solution-focused
approach and its practice in therapy, consulting, coaching, and
training. It contains a varied and rich array of interventions,
training ideas, uses with different populations and approaches, and
resources written by contributors who represent many countries and
viewpoints, and who are well known in the training and practice of
the solution-focused approach. Chapters are presented in simple
language, as befits the solution-focused approach, and complement
the many serious and whimsical sections of the book, which include
practice and training ideas, favorite quotes and stories,
"outrageous" moments in therapy, and a list of solution-focused
songs. Anyone who enjoys the approach in any manner should find
something that grabs the interest and tickles the senses and
sensibilities. Readers will come away informed, thoughtful, and
entertained.
When we get in a problem situation, we often keep making the same
mistake over and over again. Sometimes, the problem itself is
repeating a remedy that never works. It's a broken record or a
hamster running in a wheel that keeps going around and around and
gets nowhere. This book is about ways to change the game, to get on
track and unstuck. William Glasser, Phoebe Prosky, David Baum, Joan
Barth, Michael Hoyt, airline pilot Doug Doherty and about thirty
others share their lives and experiences in "Making the Impossible
Difficult: Tools for Getting Unstuck ." The editors and writers
invite you to share their struggles, triumphs, and experiences in
this anthology of poems, illustrations, stories, and essays. Some
are short, some long; some require thinking, others are for
drinking in. Here there are examples of tools for getting unstuck
from the troubles that beset us all.
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