FAMILY THERAPY - DEAN AMORY

Chapter 5 - Engaging the Family Into Treatment ...............................................................................70
The Problem ....................................................................................................................................70
Dealing With Resistance to Engagement........................................................................................71
The Task of Coming to Treatment ..................................................................................................72
Joining.............................................................................................................................................72
Establishing a Therapeutic Alliance................................................................................................73
Diagnosing the Interactions That Keep the Family From Coming Into Treatment ........................73
Restructuring the Resistance ...........................................................................................................74
Types of Resistant Families ............................................................................................................74
Powerful Identified Patient .............................................................................................................74
Contact Person Protecting Structure ...............................................................................................75
Disengaged Parent...........................................................................................................................76
Families With Secrets .....................................................................................................................76
Chapter 6 - Clinical Research Supporting Brief Stategic Family Therapy.........................................77
Outpatient Brief Strategic Family Therapy Versus Outpatient Group Counseling ........................77
Conduct Disorder. ...........................................................................................................................78
Association With Antisocial Peers..................................................................................................78
One Person Brief Strategic Family Therapy ...................................................................................79
Brief Strategic Family Therapy Engagement..................................................................................79
The six levels of engagement effort ................................................................................................80
Efficacy of methods of engagement...............................................................................................80
References .......................................................................................................................................81
Solution focused brief therapy .............................................................................................................86
Contents...............................................................................................................................................86
Basic Principles:..................................................................................................................................86
Questions.............................................................................................................................................87
The miracle question .......................................................................................................................87
Scaling Questions............................................................................................................................88
Exception Seeking Questions..........................................................................................................88
Coping questions.............................................................................................................................88
Problem-free talk.............................................................................................................................89
Resources ............................................................................................................................................89
History of Solution Focused Brief Therapy ........................................................................................89
Solution-Focused counselling .............................................................................................................90
Solution-Focused consulting...............................................................................................................90
References ...........................................................................................................................................90
Brief (psycho-) therapy .........................................................................................................................91
Founding proponents of Brief Therapy...............................................................................................91
An Overview of Brief Therapy ...........................................................................................................93
The brief therapy solution-focused approach can be summed up in three stages,..........................93
Strategic Family Therapy.....................................................................................................................94
Haley Model........................................................................................................................................95
Behavior Problems ..............................................................................................................................95
Family Interaction ...............................................................................................................................95
Therapy ...............................................................................................................................................95
Who Does it Help? ..............................................................................................................................97
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