Michael Rothery, George Enns

Clinical Practice with Families (eBook, ePUB)

Supporting Creativity and Competence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clinical Practice with Families: Supporting Creativity and Competence presents the most important and useful contemporary ideas in family therapy in a clear, understandable framework. With in-depth case examples, this comprehensive volume offers insight and ideas for practicing family therapists in such essential areas as boundaries, ecomaps, support, family traditions, and goalsetting. Illustrated with helpful charts and figures, it offers senior students and practicing family therapists an opportunity to take a structured approach to contemporary theory and understand its implications for practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317825944
• Artikelnr.: 40438803

Autorenporträt

Rothery, Michael; Enns, George

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
* Foreword
* Introduction: Creativity and Frameworks
* Our Purpose
* Clinical Theory and the Ecological Perspective
* Clinical Theory: An Embarrassment of Riches
* Case Example: The Doyles
* Creativity
* Frameworks
* Part I. Essential Themes--A Framework for Understanding
* Chapter 1. Boundaries
* The Nature of Boundaries
* Qualities and Functions of Boundaries
* The Rhythm of Contact and Withdrawal
* A Boundary Dynamic
* The Boundary Negotiation Process
* Boundaries and Identity
* Boundaries in Context
* Chapter 2. Traditions
* Traditions Defined
* Sources of Traditions
* The Advantages of the Concept
* Our Relationship to Traditions
* Rebecca and Daniel's Crisis Revisited
* Chapter 3. Development of Individuals in Families: Themes and
Variations
* The Advantages of a Developmental View
* A Perspective on Development
* The New Couple
* Boundaries with the Couple's Extended Family and Other Systems
* Bearing and Caring for Children
* Caring for Adolescents
* Launching the Young Adult
* Attachment and Disengagement in Later Life
* Further Variations
* The Therapist's Developmental Issues
* Part II. Facilitating Change
* Chapter 4. Understanding Change
* Theories of Explanation and Theories of Change
* Relationship As a Precondition for Change
* Boundaries and the Helping Relationship
* Traditions and the Helping Relationship
* Change and the Boundary Dynamic
* Summary: Generalizations About Change
* Example: Ideas About Change in Action
* Final Note: Technique and Creativity
* Chapter 5. Setting Goals, Discovering Solutions
* Defining Problems and Discovering Solutions
* Traditions and the Search for Solutions
* Integrating Different Agendas
* Goals and Stages in the Process of Change
* Chapter 6. Clarifying Boundaries: Boundaries As a Framework for
Therapy
* Clarifying Boundaries: A New Example
* The Generational Boundary
* Clarifying Boundaries: An Extended Example
* Chapter 7. Helping Vulnerable Families
* The Concept of Vulnerability
* Vulnerability and Clinical Intervention
* Vulnerability and Boundaries
* Vulnerability and Traditions
* Case Example: The McDougalls
* Expanding Our Understanding: The Ecomap
* Focus on Strengths
* Implications for Service
* Epilogue: Future Creative Challenges
* References
* Index