The family as hero : competence and courage in family therapy -- Competence in everyday life -- Competence in therapy -- Healthy intentions, unhealthy outcomes -- Creating a vision -- Courage -- Partnership -- Lessons from children. Abstract "This book responds to a long-standing need in the field of psychotherapy created by the gradual demise of the medical model. If we are not to define p…
"An Aspen publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Short-term couple therapy and the principles of brief treatment / James M. Donovan -- Emotionally focused couple therapy : straight to the heart / Susan M. Johnson -- Short-term couples group psychotherapy : a tale of four fights / James M. Donovan -- A control mastery approach to short-term couple therapy / Richard Vogel -- Brief marital therapy : the story of the triangles / Philip J. Guerin,…
Introducing Harvey A. Taschman -- Developments in family therapy / Harvey A. Taschman -- Introducing Virginia Satir -- You as a change agent / Virginia Satir -- introducing James Stachowiak -- Functional and dysfunctional families / James Stachowiak -- Intervention for congruence / Virginia Satir -- Family structure and intervention techniques / James Stachowiak -- Problems and pitfalls in work…
"An Aspen publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references
Diagnosis and assessment in family therapy / Howard A. Liddle -- A co-evolutionary framework for systemic family therapy / Lynn Hoffman -- Reflections on assessment in structural family therapy / H. Charles Fishman -- The family and public service systems / Evan Imber Coppersmith -- Family assessment in a problem oriented record / Karl Tomm and G.L. Sanders -- Diagnosing / Steve de Shazer -- Th…
"An Aspen publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview -- Initial phase procedures -- Teaching -- Therapy process procedures -- Case management procedures -- Self- and cotherapist management -- In-home therapy procedures -- Adjunctive procedures -- Implications for research.
Beginnings. Family group therapy : a new treatment for children -- The McAndrew family -- An array of techniques --Refinements and reflections. Advances in theory of family group therapy -- Promoting action through new insights -- The family group therapist : an agent of change -- Extensions. Implications of emphasis on family units for theories of child psycho-pathology -- Reducing tensions th…
Foreword / Joseph Henderson -- Introduction -- Nut and bolts -- Transference and countertransference -- Archetypes -- Outer manifestations of things -- Psychotherapy -- Meaning and functions of dreams -- Symbolism and creativity.
I. Background -- Beginnings and growth -- Emerging roles of the briefer psychotherapies -- II. Distinguishing features -- Definitions -- Supporting theories -- III. Process and technique -- Models of the brief process -- The diagnostic process -- Techniques of intervention -- Termination -- IV. Clinical applications: Syndromes and situations -- Acute anxiety states -- Depression -- Suicide -- P…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.
Introduction and overview -- The counselor as a person and as a professional -- Ethical issues in counseling practice -- Psychoanalytic therapy -- Adlerian therapy -- Existential therapy -- Person-centered therapy -- Gestalt therapy -- Transactional analysis -- Behavior therapy -- Rational-emotive therapy and other cognitive-behavioral approaches -- Reality therapy -- Case illustration: compari…