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| detouring in family therapy: An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy Joseph L. Wetchler, Lorna L. Hecker, 2014-04-04 Learn the fundamentals of family therapy and treatment! An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy presents insight and analysis from 20 of the foremost experts in the theoretical and practice areas of family therapy, offering a unique blend of approaches and styles. Chapters draw on each author's area of expertise in exploring the history of family therapy and the application of systems theory to families. Ideal as a comprehensive resource for entry-level students, the book also gives undergraduates a glimpse of graduate training and provides useful tips on how to apply to graduate school and what to expect while shopping for graduate education. An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy is divided into two parts: a theoretical section, where commonly used theories are presented with practical case examples, and a section devoted to special issues and topics, such as couples therapy, communication training, marital enrichment and premarital counseling. The book also covers substance abuse, divorce, gender and culture, family violence, sexual dysfunctions and sex therapy treatment, and the interface of ethics and the legal system. An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy also discusses: the history of family therapy systems theory and cybernetics structural and strategic family therapy cognitive-behavioral, experiential, and transgenerational therapies collaborative language-based models current research findings and much more! With its unique and comprehensive approach, An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy serves as a theoretical introduction to the field of marriage and therapy and related mental health disciplines where family treatment is emphasized. The book is essential for educators in marriage and family counseling classes and is an invaluable resource for therapists, counselors, social work professionals, pastoral educators, and family psychologists. |
| detouring in family therapy: Basic Concepts in Family Therapy Linda Berg Cross, 2014-02-25 Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research!Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text, Second Edition, presents twenty-two basic psychological concepts that therapists may use to understand clients and provide successful services to them. Each chapter focuses on a single concept using material from family therapy literature, basic psychological and clinical research studies, and cross-cultural research studies. Basic Concepts in Family Therapy is particularly useful to therapists working in a family context with child- or adolescent-referred problems, and for students and clinicians treating the problems they see every day in their community. The book builds on the strengths of the first edition, incorporating ideas and articles that have become worthy of investigating since 1990 into the original text. This new edition also introduces five new chapters on resiliency and poverty, adoption, chronic illness, spirituality and religion, and parenting strategies. The new chapters make the book far more relevant for students and clinicians try ing to use family theory and technique in response to the problems they see in their communities. Basic Concepts in Family Therapy will assist you in offering clients better services by providing a deeper understanding of the contemporary family in its various forms, the psychological bonds that shape all families, and the developmental stages of the family life cycle. This exploration of how family demography, stages and life cycles affect family functions is a solid foundation from which all of the therapeutic concepts in this book can be explored. Some of the facets of family therapy you will explore in Basic Concepts in Family Therapy are: the importance of spirituality and religion in family therapy generational boundaries, closeness, and role behaviors managing a family's emotions defining problems and generating and evaluating possible solutions teaching children specific attitudes, values, social skills, and norms transracial adoptions and normative processes and developmental issues of adoptive parents strategies for reducing conflict . . . and much more!Basic Concepts in Family Therapy will help to broaden your understanding of the ways families function in general. You can use the effective concepts explored in this text to make a thorough assessment of the impact of a disorder on a child and on the rest of his or her family, as well as how family dynamics might have shaped or exacerbated the problems. The concepts described in this text can be customized to clients’cultural values to avoid unnecessary resistance. As a new therapist, you will gain confidence in your assessments, and if you are already a seasoned professional, you will gain creativity in your interventions. |
| detouring in family therapy: Substance Abuse David McDowell, Henry I. Spitz, 2015-12-22 Designed as a 'one-stop shopping' tool for anyone interested in or affected by substance abuse, this book provides detailed discussions that include the history, chemistry, biology, epidemiology, and salient characteristics of the most important and prevalent abused substances. |
| detouring in family therapy: The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy S. Richard Sauber, 1993-08-09 As the study of the family has expanded, the need for an up-to-date volume that brings together and defines major salient words, phrases and concepts has similarly grown. The updated edition of this unique resource provides an expanded yet compact and handy reference for all practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of family psychology and psychotherapy. Each entry includes a definition of the term, an example of its use, the origin of the term, an early source using the term and, if pertinent, a recent source. `Borrowed' terms from other fields such as family law, sex therapy, clinical child psychology and group psychology are also included. |
| detouring in family therapy: Parenting: a Journey of Faith While Navigating the Detours Lucy Watani-Simiyu, 2021-07-30 Lucy Watani-Simiyu walks you through the raw and ugly moments in parenting that come when tragedy first strikes. She wrote this book after a season when nothing made sense and it felt like she’d been abandoned by God. It was a time filled with anxiety and heartbreak, and with many questions unanswered. As she shares her story,she gives you permission to not be a hero or be an unobtainable version of someone’s faithful Christian highlight reel. You can be right where you are ... moving toward freedom. As you read, In her parental journey and counselling sessions, the experiential learning from thousands of parents raised many questions and gives answers to questions such as: How can parents connect themselves to the very heart of God? What message does God have for you as a parent? Can children question their faith in God in a nerve-wracking way to parents and yet continue to function sanely? How can parents equip themselves with the truth of God’s Word to keep sane and fulfill their ambassadorial calling. What does it mean for a parent to have a well-planned journey for a child? You ask: what do I do when my child makes the wrong choices? How do I deal with contrary or counterculture? What about parenting guilt? Where is God in all this? Filled with verses from Scripture, examples from the Bible, and practical insights from the author’s own life experiences, this book will help you combine grace, truth, and God’s Word to find strength and help children overcome obstacles. This book points you to the source of joy in your journey by pointing you to God’s Word, the truth that sets you free when the journey gets weary. The blueprint still works—not to make you guilty but to liberate you. Maybe you are a parent who is paralyzed by fear of your child’s choices. You may be anxious, hopeless, and helpless about your child’s future. Perhaps you are weighed down by guilt and shame, caught in a slump, overwhelmed with regret trapped in a dead-end parenting, and numb from a child’s choice. You may be drowning in disappointment, anger, shame, and unfilled spiritually so that God and his promises do not make sense.Instead of tying our hope to specific outcomes, let us connect ourselves to the very heart of God. With compelling storytelling and sound scriptural backup, this book gives you the biblical pathway to help you as a parent move beyond the pain of the present to a hope-filled future. |
| detouring in family therapy: The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner's Handbook Kirsten Asmussen, 2012-05-23 The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner’s Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge necessary to effectively deliver evidence-based parenting interventions within community and health settings. Using clear examples of how this knowledge can inform frontline work with parents, this practical handbook includes: an overview of the policy context underpinning evidence-based parenting work in the US, UK, Australia and Norway a discussion of how a robust evidence base is established and the ways in which practitioners can access information about good-quality research an overview of how research in the field of child development has contributed to the development of evidence-based parenting interventions an overview of how theories and research in the field of therapeutic practice have contributed to the development of evidence-based parenting interventions what research evidence suggests about the role of the practitioner in the delivery of evidence-based support outcome-focused methods for establishing the evidence base of new parenting interventions outcome-focused methods for commissioning evidence-based parenting services. Emphasizing the ways in which practitioners can evaluate and translate messages from research into applied work with parents and families, The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner’s Handbook is suitable for all those involved in the delivery of evidence-based parenting support, including frontline practitioners, service managers, parenting commissioners, heads of children’s services and policy makers. |
| detouring in family therapy: Family Involvement in Treating Schizophrenia James A. Marley, 2014-02-25 Discover the importance of family in the treatment of schizophrenia! Family Involvement in Treating Schizophrenia: Models, Essential Skills, and Process is a vital resource for developing clinical skills and programs designed to increase family involvement in the treatment of schizophrenia. The book is a “hands-on” learning tool to be used as a broad overview of many intervention models and/or for a more focused look at a particular model with details of its use, implementation, and effectiveness. Dr. James A. Marley presents case studies and vignettes of each intervention model in action, highlighting specific techniques and skills. He also examines self-help and family advocacy programs, and addresses professional issues that have a direct impact on the provision of family services. Family Involvement in Treating Schizophrenia: Models, Essential Skills, and Process examines the practical application of family therapy when working with families coping with schizophrenia. The book addresses the importance of family involvement, the different types of intervention models that best serve the family, the founding principles behind the major intervention models, how to design and implement the right model, and how family issues impact service delivery. It includes recommendations for additional reading and listings of related Internet resources. Among the therapies examined include: psychodynamic Bowenian experiential structural strategic systemic/Milan cognitive-behavioral narrative solution-focused multiple families psychoeducational Family Involvement in Treating Schizophrenia: Models, Essential Skills, and Process is a primary source of information for clinicians and students that's equally effective as a professional resource and as a textbook. The book is invaluable as an aid to developing sensitivity to the special needs of families coping with this debilitating disorder. |
| detouring in family therapy: An Introduction To Family Therapy Dallos, Rudi, Draper, Ros, 2010-05-01 Lists of key texts and diagrams, suggested reading organized by topic, and practical examples and exercises are also used in order to encourage the reader to explore and experiment with the ideas in their own practice. -- |
| detouring in family therapy: Ten Ways to Detect and Detour Children From Gang Membership Charles Anthony Dickerson, 2020-11-10 Children as young as nine can unwittingly become involved or associated with gangs and gang activity. Quite often, an uninformed and seemingly harmless choice quickly becomes a spiral into gang involvement and gun violence. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers often have no idea how to detect their children’s involvement in gang activity, and if they do, they don’t know what to do about it. Learn the true politics of being a gang member. Stories and interviews with active, former, and retired gang members provide a realistic picture of what gang membership looks like, giving ample reasons to avoid it. Each chapter provides the tools and instruction to educate and help parents and caregivers choose and create a safer and healthier lifestyle—and future—for their children |
| detouring in family therapy: Families and Family Therapy Salvador Minuchin, 2009-07-01 No other book in the field so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations. Salvador Minuchin presents six chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessions—two devoted to ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative success; four concerned with families seeking help. Accompanying each transcript is the author’s running interpretation of what is taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist’s tactics and maneuvers. These lively sessions are interpreted in a brilliant theoretical analysis of why families develop problems and what it takes to set them right. The author constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. He discusses ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow. Dr. Minuchin describes methods of diagnosing or “mapping” problems of the troubled family and determining appropriate therapeutic goals and strategies. Different situations, such as the extended family, the family with a parental child, and the family in transition through death or divorce, are examined. Finally, the author explores the dynamics of change, examining the variety of restructuring operations that can be employed to challenge a family and to change its basic patterns. |
| detouring in family therapy: An Unexpected Detour Ann Cochran, 2018-02-08 This is the story of how a successful, professional young educator, wife, and mother survived a near-fatal and debilitating stroke at the age of thirty-six. It was written in the hopes that her lessons learned and recounted experiences will help other stroke victims, their families, and friends as they begin their own period of discovery and healing. Every stroke is different, but recovery protocols are very similar for each survivor and those who love them. Perhaps this book will be a road map as they collectively navigate a myriad of fears, hopes, feelings of despair, and needs during their own personal journey back. |
| detouring in family therapy: Adjunctive Techniques in Family Therapy Robert L. Ziffer, 1985 Adjunctive Techniques in Family Therapy expands the repertoire of interventions available to mental health professionals. The book incorporates time honored individual adjunctive techniques such as diagnosis, psychological testing, inpatient hospitalization, psychotropic medication, hypnosis, school consultation, and pediatric liaison, within a family system framework. The utilization of this technique gains new impact and utility for professionals of diverse theoretical orientation, and maximizes the effectiveness of the family therapist in a wider variety of settings--Back cover. |
| detouring in family therapy: Traveling by Detour Stephen Gower, 2007-09 |
| detouring in family therapy: Detour Lizzie Simon, 2003-06-18 In the fall of 1999, 23-year-old Simon hit the road on a journey that took her across the United States. Her inspired interviews with other young men and women suffering from manic depression comprise the heart and soul of this remarkable memoir. |
| detouring in family therapy: Understanding Family Process Carlfred B. Broderick, 1993-03-09 Systems theory is the basic theoretical model underlying most contemporary family therapy. In this accessible introduction, the author traces how systems theory gave rise to family systems theory, outlines the basic propositions of family systems and links it both to other family theory literature and to clinical practice. Among the topics covered are relational space, family boundaries, family stratification and child socialization. Family meanings and such shared realities as family folklore, stories, myths and memorabilia are discussed. Family rituals are also explored. |
| detouring in family therapy: Models Of Family Therapy William A. Griffin, Shannon M. Greene, 2013-10-28 Models of Family Therapy provides an overview of established family therapy models. All classification schemes of family therapy models must reduce ideological complexity, ignore overlap, and generalize for the purposes of category inclusion and exclusion. Nonetheless, orientation differences do exist and the authors make these differences clear by placing ideas and methods into categories. To facilitate learning how the dimensions of each model fit with other models, this book enhances comparability by using the same general outline in all chapters. In these outlines, the critical components of each model are broken down into a few core assumptions, terms, techniques, and methods. These critical components are summarized consistent with their description in the original publications. Some of these models include structural, strategic, behavioral, psychoeducational, and experiential therapy. Because of the style of presentation, this book can be useful as a primary text or supplement in a marriage and family therapy course. In addition, graduate students and professionals can benefit from this guidebook in order to prepare for any state or national examination on marriage and family therapy. |
| detouring in family therapy: Multi-generational Family Therapy Maurizio Andolfi, 2016-11-25 Multi-generational Family Therapy reveals the limits of the medical model in treating mental and relational problems. It instead provides a toolkit for therapists, observing family functioning over at least three generations to explore the developmental history of the family in order to discover links between past trauma and broken emotional bonds, and current problems experienced by family members. Maurizio Andolfi honours the voices of children in therapy and enlists them as the key to unlocking unresolved family issues. The book provides an experiential model of intervention that centres on creativity and humanity as the best way to build an alliance and work with a family in crisis. Demonstrating with case examples, Andolfi outlines the relational skills and inner self of the therapist, focusing on the ability to be direct, authentic and emphatic. The use of relational questioning, silence, body language, physical contact and movement in therapy are explored in depth. Multi-generational Family Therapy will be of interest to anyone working with individuals, couples and families including child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors. It will also prove useful to private practitioners, social workers, doctors, paediatricians and educators |
| detouring in family therapy: Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin, J. Maria Bermudez, 2017-11-23 Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy addresses the need for socially responsible couple, marriage, and family therapy that infuses diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice. The text begins with a discussion of societal systems, diversity, and socially just practice. The authors then integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts of ten major family therapy models, paying close attention to the how to’s of change processes through a highly diverse range of case examples. The text concludes with descriptions of integrative, equity-based family therapy guidelines that clinicians can apply to their practice. |
| detouring in family therapy: My Detour M. L. Petties, 2021-03-11 A young single mother in search of purpose and escaping her psychotic ex decides to pack up and move to a different state. After a couple of years pass by, she discovers that things are actually worse than before. Along this journey, she discovers this is her detour, and she then makes every effort to get back on the right path in God's will for her life. Through prayer and faith, God delivers the young mother, and she never looks back, except to give God praise and glory. |
| detouring in family therapy: Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods Pauline Boss, William J. Doherty, Ralph LaRossa, Walter R. Schumm, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, 1993-03-31 Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. Thus, an appropriate way to preface this book is to talk first of its roots, its beginnings. In the mid 1980s there emerged in some quarters the sense that it was time for family studies to take stock of itself. A goal was thus set to write a book that, like Janus, would face both backward and forward a book that would give readers both a perspec tive on the past and a map for the future. There were precedents for such a project: The Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Harold Christensen and published in 1964; the two Contemporary Theories about theFamily volumes edited by Wesley Burr, Reuben Hill, F. Ivan Nye, and Ira Reiss, published in 1979; and the Handbook of Marriage and the Family edited by Marvin Sussman and Suzanne Steinmetz, then in production. |
| detouring in family therapy: The Detour Rudolph Lucas, 2011-02-14 This Book is Dedicated To: First and foremost to Belinda (Lynn) who put up with me for the 10 long years as I created this book To my mother Mary Wesson who believed that I could do it: To my brother Stephen Lucas who with a few words of encouragement got me to take it from my mind and put it on paper. To his wife Beverly who made some great subjections. And last but not least to my 10 kids and 34 grandkids to let them know live your dream no matter what the obstacle. |
| detouring in family therapy: Changing the Rules Barry L. Duncan, Andrew D. Solovey, Gregory S. Rusk, 1992-06-12 All therapists at some time or other are confronted with cases that do not fit the assumptions of their chosen theoretical model--clients who should get better do not, while others improve for reasons the model does not explain. One lesson that can (and should) be drawn from such cases is that the client's perception of the therapist's behavior and of the intervention process is a powerful factor in therapeutic success or failure. These relationship factors account for a significant proportion of change in psychotherapy, yet little has been written about how to utilize them. Filling a gap in the literature, this book presents a pragmatic application of these simple but difficult experiential lessons to the practice of individual, couple, and family therapy. When should a therapist shift gears? And how is it done? CHANGING THE RULES presents a flexible methodology for practice that encourages clinicians to utilize their clients' interpretations in constructing more effective interventions. Providing a developmental and empirical context for the approach, the book covers the initial interview and the selection, design, and delivery of interventions, as well as issues such as ethics and gender bias. Several case examples and two full-length studies demonstrate each stage of the therapeutic process, fully illustrating the approach and enabling the creative therapist to replicate it in practice. Proposing a coherent framework for practice that empowers relationship effects, enhances therapist flexibility, and expands the repertoire of intervention strategies for working with individuals, couples, and families, this volume is an invaluable resource for clinicians, academicians, and students regardless of theoretical orientation. |
| detouring in family therapy: Family Art Therapy Christine Kerr, 2011-04-27 Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy intervention techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families, particularly visual art forms, and there is already considerable evidence and literature that point to a positive link between the two. This text is unique in that it draws together, for the first time in a single volume, an overview of the evolution of the theories and techniques from the major schools of classic family therapy, integrating them with practical clinical approaches from the field of art therapy. |
| detouring in family therapy: Interparental Conflict and Child Development John Howard Grych, Frank D. Fincham, 2001-03-19 Interparental Conflict and Child Development provides an in-depth analysis of the rapidly expanding body of research on the impact of interparental conflict on children. Emphasizing developmental and family systems perspectives, it investigates a range of important issues, including the processes by which exposure to conflict may lead to child maladjustment, the role of gender and ethnicity in understanding the effects of conflict, the influence of conflict on parent-child, sibling, and peer relations, family violence, and interparental conflict in divorced and step-families. |
| detouring in family therapy: Dictionary of Psychotherapy Sue Walrond-Skinner, 2014-02-25 An invaluable reference tool which provides a comprehensive coverage of the various psychotherapeutic concepts and the techniques relevant to them. |
| detouring in family therapy: Family Therapy S. Richard Sauber, Luciano L'Abate, Gerald R. Weeks, 1985 |
| detouring in family therapy: Conduct Disorders Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN, 2006-02-10 Take a journey through one of the most costly psychiatric disorders: Conduct Disorder. Explore why children in the same environment as a child with conduct disorder are more affected than the child diagnosed with the problem. Delve into the reasons most practicing clinicians of conduct disorder are influenced more so by the persons they treat and their desire to refine theoretical understanding of others and improve their methods of helping than by empirical research. With the increasing need to effectively address conduct-disordered youth, this book offers a comparative analysis of eight distinctive theoretical and practical interventions by expert therapists of one case study of conduct-disordered youth. Coverage of each treatment includes: Overview of the model Establishment of treatment goals Discussion of assessment procedures Specific clinical interventions In addition, a comparison grid offers a summation and comparison of the eight treatment models for use in developing and enhancing patient-tailored treatment approaches. |
| detouring in family therapy: Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences , 2009 |
| detouring in family therapy: Family Therapy Alan Carr, 2006-03-30 Alan Carr has once more demonstrated his unique ability to combinean encyclopaedic breadth of knowledge with clear pragmatic ideasabout how to apply this knowledge in clinical practice. The2nd edition of this book is more than just an updatewith new sections on common factors in therapy and on integrativemodels of family therapy which are particularly welcome. —Ivan Eisler, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London,UK Editor, Journal of Family Therapy Carr’s style of comprehensively considering differenttheories and approaches in a practical manner and demonstratingtheir integrative and cohesive properties is exceptionally helpfuland grounding for the reader. There is little doubt that thisvolume will well serve students, trainees and experiencedpractitioners for sometime to come. —Eddy Street, Former Editor of Journal of FamilyTherapy Now in its second edition, Family Therapy: Concepts, Processand Practice has been fully updated to cover recent advances intheory and practice. It offers a critical evaluation of the majorschools of family therapy, provides an integrative model for thepractice of marital and family therapy, and demonstrates how thismodel can be used in everyday practice with a range of commonchild-focused and adult-focused problems. It also provides athorough, up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness offamily therapy and outlines implications for evidence-basedpractice. This popular text now includes exercises that can be used bytrainers and trainees to foster family therapy skills development.Other key features from the first edition are retained,including: Chapter plans at the start of each chapter and a helpfulsummary of key points at the end Suggestions for further reading Glossary of key terms in theoretical chapters Case examples Full details of resources for professionals, including usefulweb sites. Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice is amust-have resource for all students and mental health professionalstraining in family therapy. It will also be of interest toexperienced practitioners, and those who are involved in deliveringtraining programmes. |
| detouring in family therapy: Ebook: An Introduction to Family Therapy: Systemic Theory and Practice Rudi Dallos, Ros Draper, 2024-06-06 “Systemic family therapy owes a debt of gratitude to Rudi Dallos and Ros Draper who have delivered a fifth edition of the book that has provided essential scaffolding for systemic family therapists for over two decades. This latest edition holds onto its original, clear, and coherent telling of the development of systemic family therapy.” Rachel Watson, Institute of Family Therapy, London, UK “Like a well-constructed remix Rudi Dallos and Ros Draper have provided a tour through the landscape of family therapy and systemic practice, from its historical beginnings through to the here-and-now…I recommend this book without hesitation and reservation. This remix should be “listened to” and returned to many times, as it keeps on giving.” Dr Ramón Karamat Ali, MSc Research Lead, Manchester, UK; Director of Training and Development at KA Conversations Ltd. “With genuine enthusiasm, I wholeheartedly recommend An Introduction to Family Therapy, 5th edition by Dallos & Draper.” Dr Sonam Pelden, Academic Lead for Counselling, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Australia The fifth edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Family Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day. The book considers both British and International perspectives and includes the latest developments in current practice, regulation and innovation, examining these developments within a wider political, cultural and geographical context. The fully revised fifth edition also contains new material on: Developments in Neuropsychology and Trauma Theory and its relevance for family therapy practice Illustrations of the techniques of the core schools of Family Therapy Updates on the research basis of Family Therapy This book is key reading for students and practitioners of family therapy and systemic practice as well as those from the fields of counselling, psychology, social work and the helping professions who deal with family issues. Rudi Dallos is Emeritus professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Plymouth, External examiner D. Clin. Psychology University Canterbury, Christ Church, External examiner, University of Roehampton. He presents training courses for the Institute of Family Therapy and Bowlby Centre London on a yearly basis. He also leads on a variety of training events – Relate UK, Australian FT association, Holland family therapy association, Associations for Family Therapy Ireland, Jersey and Plymouth. He offers clinical supervision in a variety of contexts including Gloucester Eating Disorder Services, Formulation Psychotherapy centre Dublin and Art therapies Ireland. Rudi is working independently as a family therapist and offer an early intervention service in Devon. Ros Draper is an independent family therapist with decades of experience in practice including working as an organisational consultant, working therapeutically with individuals, couples, families and groups as well as working as a supervisor for therapists and coaches. |
| detouring in family therapy: The Family Therapy of Drug Abuse and Addiction M. Duncan Stanton, Thomas C. Todd, 1982-03-29 The Family Therapy of Drug Abuse and Addiction |
| detouring in family therapy: Diary of a Detour Lesley Stern, 2020-08-10 Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly. |
| detouring in family therapy: Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children W. Edward Craighead, Andrew W. Meyers, 2013-11-21 Recent estimates (Hallahan & Kauffman, 1978) indicate that over 4. 7 million children, 7.3% of the child population under the age of 19, are labeled emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, or learning-disabled. Moreover, many of these children remain unserved or are inadequately served. The past decade has produced an increasing concern with the mental health needs of these children and their families. This trend had as much impact in behavior therapy as it did in any other branch of the helping professions. Behavioral work with children, with its emphasis on skill development and environmental modification, helped to build into child psychotherapy a true preventive mental health orientation. The ease of delivery and application of behavioral procedures allowed parents and other caregivers to become meaningfully involved in the clinical process, and so facilitated therapy gains and the maintenance and generalization of those gains. Perhaps the most significant change in behavior therapy in the 1970s was the move beyond interventions derived strictly from learning theories to applications based on knowledge from a variety of psycho logical research areas. The cognitive mediational activities of the client have received special attention, and this book presents the conceptual, methodological, and clinical issues in contemporary cognitive behavior therapy with children. |
| detouring in family therapy: Systemic Family Therapy Jon L. Winek, 2009-07-27 No other available text offers such a hands-on approach to marriage and family therapy theory. At the core of Systemic Family Therapy are comprehensive sections devoted to each developmental phase of the family therapy movement. With clear descriptions and session-by-session case examples, the author explores specific approaches within each of these phases. With this pragmatic tenor, students will gain a clear and in-depth understanding of how family theory concepts relate to practice–as well as ways those concepts interact with each other. Key Features Uses specific examples and session-by-session case studies to illustrate how theoretical construct actually work in practice Outlines the shifts in thinking of the family therapy field–from modern to postmodern Uses rich graphic representations and straightforward tables to illustrate key theoretical concepts Incorporates compelling questions and learning exercises that will lead to dynamic class discussions Intended Audience A refreshing departure from traditional instruction of family therapy theory, this core textbook is an excellent resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of family therapy, counseling, social work, and family studies. |
| detouring in family therapy: Working with Multiproblem Families Lisa Kaplan, 1986 |
| detouring in family therapy: Family Therapy Robert Jay Green, James L. Framo, 1981 |
| detouring in family therapy: Multidimensional Family Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users - Cannabis Youth Treatment Series (Volume 5) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018-11-22 Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)-Multidimensional family therapy is the multisystemic family-focused treatment described in this manual for experienced family therapists that includes 12 weeks of in-clinic and telephone sessions working with individual adolescents and their families. MDFT targets the psychosocial functioning of individual family members, the family members' relationships, and influential social systems outside the family. |
| detouring in family therapy: Handbook for Assessing and Treating Addictive Disorders John Levitt, Douglas Ruben, Chris E. Stout Ph.D., 1992-06-16 This comprehensive reference offers a fresh, integrative perspective on the assessment and treatment of addictive disorders. The work is organized into five sections, which treat theories of addiction, the diagnosis and evaluation of addictive behavior, treatment approaches, addiction among special populations, and clinical and legal issues concerning substance abuse professionals. The broad scope of the handbook encompasses alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, and smoking. Theory is consistently used to illuminate practice, resulting in a valuable overview of the field. Within each section, essays by contributors discuss the most important issues and developments in the diagnosis and treatment of addiction. The opening essays establish a solid theoretical foundation by outlining behavioral, familial, and psychoanalytical explanations for the origins of addictive behavior. The later essays build on that base by overviewing diagnostic and treatment issues concerning addiction among Native Americans, the elderly, victims of traumatic brain injury, adult children of alcoholics, and teenagers. Useful appendixes list additional sources of information and describe certification for substance abuse professionals in each state. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and substance abuse counselors will find this handbook a necessary addition to their professional libraries. |
| detouring in family therapy: Detour to Heaven Ann Winters, 2010-03 Adultery, murder, tempting a called servant of Goda how can God forgive such things? Beautiful, manipulative, and spiritually flawed Marlana considers herself unredeemable and unworthy of God's grace. She lives with a childhood secret that has affected every aspect of her life and sent her into a downward spiral of dangerous sin. She struggles to resist her ambivalent lifestyle and the temptations that pull her further away from all she was taught to be. Can God redeem Marlana? Is she on a one-way path of no return? Find out in Ann Winters's Detour to Heaven. |
| detouring in family therapy: Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes Francine Shapiro, Florence W. Kaslow, Louise Maxfield, 2007-02-02 Starting with the Foreword by Daniel Siegel, MD, the Handbook demonstrates in superb detail how you can combine EMDR’s information processing approach with family systems perspectives and therapy techniques. An impressive and needed piece of work, Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes provides a clear and comprehensive bridge between individual and family therapies. |
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A detouring coalition is one in which the pair holds a third family member responsible for their difficulties or conflicts with one another, thus decreasing the stress on themselves or their …
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Structural family therapy offers. a framework that brings order and meaning to those transactions. The consistent patterns of family behavior are what allow us to consider that they have a …
Techniques of Structural Family Assessment:
Qualitative analyses identified 25 dis-tinct techniques that these clinicians used to challenge linear thinking and move families toward a systemic understanding of their problems. We discuss …
Structural Family Therapy - Eastern Mediterranean University
Structural family therapy is underpinned by a clearly articulated model of family functioning, and has been developed and used most consistently in services for children and families. A …
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Structural Family Therapy’s Major Thesis: An individual’s symptoms are best understood when examined in the context of family interactional patterns. A change in the family’s organization …
Detouring in the Family System as an Antecedent of Children’s ...
Guided by conceptualizations of relational boundaries from family systems theory, this study examined unique links between detouring (e.g., alliance between parents against child) and …
Mapping in Structural Family Therapy - Center for Family …
Structural therapy poses that problematic behav-iors are embedded in a family’s relational patterns. Visually representing those patterns on a diagram serves the dual purpose of …
Detouring In Family Therapy (Download Only)
fundamentals of family therapy and treatment An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy presents insight and analysis from 20 of the foremost experts in the theoretical and practice …
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Structural family therapy (SFT) is a systems based model that places a special focus on the internal organization of relationships within families vis-à-vis their func- Honing.
Structural Family Therapy Theoretical Framework - Springer
Structural Family Therapy is a method for under-standing and treating behavioral problems within the context of the family.
Detriangulation in Couple and Family Therapy - Springer
Bowen, the founder of Bowen family systems therapy, an intergenerational approach to family therapy. Description Developed by Murray Bowen, detriangulation is the clinical technique in …
structural Couple Therapy - Minuchin Center
Structural family therapy emerged during the 1960s and 1970s out of the dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis experienced by Salvador Minuchin in his attempts to treat children.
Termination in family therapy-developing a structural approach
Termination is therefore seen not just as a passive process of ending therapy, but as a potentially empowering process which can help clients from slipping back into old ways of functioning.
What is detouring in structural family therapy
Detouring occurs when parents, rather than directing anger or criticism toward each other, focus the negativity on the child and the parent-child conflict thus serves to distract from the tension …
CONCEPTS (Bowen FST) Definitions Anxiety Emotional …
Triangulation The process of detouring a conflict between two people by involving a third person, stabilizing the relationship between the original pair. Sibling Position Family emotional …
Boundary Making in Couple and Family Therapy - Springer
Boundaries are an inherent part of all families and couples. Boundaries determine which roles indi-viduals and family subsystems (e.g., children or parents) play, expectations of each party, …
Exploring Your Inner Parts: An Internal Family Systems …
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeu c approach developed by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. It is based on the idea that the mind is composed of mul ple “parts” or dis nct aspects of self, …
Coalition in Structural Family Therapy coalitions - Springer
Salvador Minuchin developed structural family therapy based on the belief that family is more than a group of individuals with shared biology. Family members relate to one another and create …
Chapter 4: STRATEGIC & SYSTEMIC - Family Solutions Institute
Family rules may be changed by the technique of reframing (see below) – helping the father reinterpret the child’s behavior as reflecting his unhappiness rather than being disrespectful.
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Apr 29, 2020 · The targeted rejection and exclusion experienced in a detouring family , as opposed to negativity and conflict that is generalized across the family, may be especial ly …
Structural Family Therapy - Iosco County Psychological Services
A detouring coalition is one in which the pair holds a third family member responsible for their difficulties or conflicts with one another, thus decreasing the stress on themselves or their …
FAMILY THERAPY - Rehabilitation Psychologist
Structural family therapy offers. a framework that brings order and meaning to those transactions. The consistent patterns of family behavior are what allow us to consider that they have a …
Techniques of Structural Family Assessment:
Qualitative analyses identified 25 dis-tinct techniques that these clinicians used to challenge linear thinking and move families toward a systemic understanding of their problems. We discuss …
Structural Family Therapy - Eastern Mediterranean University
Structural family therapy is underpinned by a clearly articulated model of family functioning, and has been developed and used most consistently in services for children and families. A …
Structural Family Theory Important Vocabulary
Structural Family Therapy’s Major Thesis: An individual’s symptoms are best understood when examined in the context of family interactional patterns. A change in the family’s organization …
Detouring in the Family System as an Antecedent of …
Guided by conceptualizations of relational boundaries from family systems theory, this study examined unique links between detouring (e.g., alliance between parents against child) and …
Mapping in Structural Family Therapy - Center for Family …
Structural therapy poses that problematic behav-iors are embedded in a family’s relational patterns. Visually representing those patterns on a diagram serves the dual purpose of …
Detouring In Family Therapy (Download Only)
fundamentals of family therapy and treatment An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy presents insight and analysis from 20 of the foremost experts in the theoretical and practice …
JSSA: Health & Social Wellness Agency Serving DC, MD & VA
Structural family therapy (SFT) is a systems based model that places a special focus on the internal organization of relationships within families vis-à-vis their func- Honing.
Structural Family Therapy Theoretical Framework - Springer
Structural Family Therapy is a method for under-standing and treating behavioral problems within the context of the family.
Detriangulation in Couple and Family Therapy - Springer
Bowen, the founder of Bowen family systems therapy, an intergenerational approach to family therapy. Description Developed by Murray Bowen, detriangulation is the clinical technique in …
structural Couple Therapy - Minuchin Center
Structural family therapy emerged during the 1960s and 1970s out of the dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis experienced by Salvador Minuchin in his attempts to treat children.
Termination in family therapy-developing a structural …
Termination is therefore seen not just as a passive process of ending therapy, but as a potentially empowering process which can help clients from slipping back into old ways of functioning.
What is detouring in structural family therapy
Detouring occurs when parents, rather than directing anger or criticism toward each other, focus the negativity on the child and the parent-child conflict thus serves to distract from the tension …
CONCEPTS (Bowen FST) Definitions Anxiety Emotional …
Triangulation The process of detouring a conflict between two people by involving a third person, stabilizing the relationship between the original pair. Sibling Position Family emotional …
Boundary Making in Couple and Family Therapy - Springer
Boundaries are an inherent part of all families and couples. Boundaries determine which roles indi-viduals and family subsystems (e.g., children or parents) play, expectations of each party, …
Exploring Your Inner Parts: An Internal Family Systems …
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeu c approach developed by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. It is based on the idea that the mind is composed of mul ple “parts” or dis nct aspects of self, …
