Shlomo Ariel

Culturally Competent Family Therapy (eBook, PDF)

A General Model

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The problems of a family are often conditioned by the cultural issues its members face, regardless of their socioeconomic background. However, most therapeutic models ignore this important factor. Ariel's book offers a model for diagnosis and therapy that incorporates cultural issues. It provides clinicians and trainees with readily applicable concepts, methods, and techniques for helping families and their members overcome difficulties related to intermarriage, immigration, acculturation, socioeconomic inequality, prejudice, and ecological or demographic change. This approach enables therapists to analyze and describe a family as a cultural system, explain its culture-related difficulties, and design and carry out culturally sensitive strategies for solving these difficulties. The model introduced in this book integrates theories in family therapy in general and culturally oriented family therapy in particular with ideas drawn from many other fields, such as cross-cultural psychology, psychiatry, anthropology and linguistics. The form of therapy presented in this book is integrative, drawing from traditional curing and healing techniques employed in folk psychotherapy and medicine, in addition to more conventional therapeutic models. Every technique is modified to be adapted to the cultural character of the family in question. This book is designed to be a handbook for clinicians and a textbook for students, trainees and researchers. It can be used as a guide for a complete independent method of family therapy and also as a source of ideas and techniques that can be incorporated selectively into other forms of therapy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313001604
• Artikelnr.: 68535148

Autorenporträt

SHLOMO ARIEL, a licensed expert and supervisor of clinical psychology and marital and family therapy, is the co-director of the Integrative Psychotherapy Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. He is also the Coordinator of Research and Academic Development at the Israeli branch of Lesley College, Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the faculty of the Program for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and the chairperson of the Israeli Association of Psychotherapy Integration.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Florence Kaslow Acknowledgdments Introduction Culture and
Family Therapy: An Overview The Necessity to Incorporate Culture into the
Theory and Practice of Family Therapy The General Model of Culturally
Competent Family Therapy:A Brief Outline Family-Cultural Concepts Relevant
to Diagnosis and Treatment The Family's Conceptualization of Its
Environment The Family's Cultural Identity The Family's Functioning and
Lifestyle The Family's Coping with Problems and Difficulties The
Information-Processing Framework The Family as an Information-Processing
System Culturally Determined Family Dysfunction Culturally Competent Family
Diagnosis Data-Collection Instruments and Procedures Analysis of Diagnostic
Data Therapy The Therapeutic Alliance in Culturally Competent Family
Therapy Planning the Therapy: Strategies, Tactics and Techniques The
Therapeutic Process Epilogue Appendix References Index