Twentieth century trends in marriage and marital therapy / James Prochaska and Janice Prochaska -- Conceptualization of marriage and family dynamics from a psychoanalytic perspective / William W. Meissner -- Marital therapy from a psychoanalytic perspective / Carol Cooperman Nadelson with Thomas J. Paolino, Jr. -- Conceptualization of marriage from a behavioral perspective / Robert L. Weiss -- …
Includes bibliographical references and index
Section one. General considerations. Indications and contraindications -- Important systems concepts and issues -- Attributes of the healthy couple -- Section two. Acute marital conflict. The initial interview -- Short-term and crisis intervention -- Section three. Chronic marital conflict. Framework of treatment -- Common problems and solutions -- Approaching families of origin from a systems …
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 --…
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.
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…