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…
1. Ethical, value, and professional conflicts in systems therapy / Michael O'Shea / Edgar Jessee : Conflicts among therapist, colleagues, and system members ; Therapist-family-societal conflicts -- 2. Linear versus systemic values: implications for family therapy / Morris Taggart : The epistemological renewal ; Linear values and the epistemological challenge ; Systematic approaches to values ; …
"An Aspen publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why Treat Troubled Marriages? -- Values and Philosophy in Selecting Marital Therapy Goals and Methods -- Techniques of Therapy Based on Social Learning Theory -- Assessing Troubled Marriages -- Structuring the Therapeutic Process -- Caring Days: A Technique for Building Commitment to Faltering Marriages -- Communication Change -- Structuring Behavior Exchanges -- Allocating the Authority to Mak…
Systems, order, hierarchy -- Developmental sequences: concepts -- Developmental sequences: examples -- Inner and outer worlds: models -- Consciousness, communication and control -- Marriage: gender and role -- Marriage: relationship and sexuality -- Relationship between marital and family interaction -- Ethics of change -- Techniques: general approaches -- Techniques: practical considerations -…
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…