Case for group therapy -- Theoretical framework for group psychotherapy -- Process -- Role and tasks of the leader -- Logistics and clinical issues -- Odds and ends -- Clinical issues -- Elements of psychodrama -- In retrospect.
Changing lenses and frames -- New maps: Change on the psychological level -- The group as learning laboratory -- Change on the interpersonal level -- Change on the level of beliefs and values -- The paradoxes of group therapy.
Feminist critique of schools of family therapy / Marianne Ault-Riche -- Training family therapists as feminists / Judith A. Libow -- Women, families, and larger systems / Evan Imber-Black -- Feminist examination of family systems models of violence against women in the family / Michele Bogard -- Minority women: a nodal position in the functioning of the social system / Elaine B. Pinderhughes --…
Why mediation therapy? -- The mediation therapy agreement: Shaping the process -- The beneficent overall structure of mediation therapy -- The rational structures -- Sensory and instructional structures -- Conflict negotiation skills: The cornerstone of mediation therapy -- Decision making -- Children's needs -- Selection of clients -- Appendix A: Distribution of structures in mediation therapy…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and indexes.
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.