FAMILY THERAPY - DEAN AMORY
This is the new, extended and improved version of “An Introduction to Family Therapy”, your reference guide containing detailed information about all important facets of family therapy: schools and methods, strategies used, structure and content of family therapy sessions, stages, basic techniques, influential people, history of family therapy,… Since I feel many people will benefit and appreciate being allowed easy access to this kind of information ordered in short, easily accessible chapters, I decided to make this compilation work - based on information freely available in the public domain -, available for free to everybody as a download file. ----//---- The cover illustration is from Zirta from Mexico: www.zirta.net - email address: beatriz@zirta.net
This is the new, extended and improved version of “An Introduction to Family Therapy”, your reference guide containing detailed information about all important facets of family therapy: schools and methods, strategies used, structure and content of family therapy sessions, stages, basic techniques, influential people, history of family therapy,… Since I feel many people will benefit and appreciate being allowed easy access to this kind of information ordered in short, easily accessible chapters, I decided to make this compilation work - based on information freely available in the public domain -, available for free to everybody as a download file.
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The cover illustration is from Zirta from Mexico: www.zirta.net - email address: beatriz@zirta.net
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External links ..................................................................................................................................38<br />
Brief Strategic Family Therapy ...........................................................................................................39<br />
Description ..........................................................................................................................................39<br />
Program background ...........................................................................................................................39<br />
Indicated..............................................................................................................................................39<br />
Content focus ......................................................................................................................................39<br />
Intervention by domain .......................................................................................................................40<br />
Parents as a primary target population:...........................................................................................40<br />
Individual: .......................................................................................................................................40<br />
Family : ...........................................................................................................................................40<br />
Peer :................................................................................................................................................40<br />
Key program approaches.....................................................................................................................40<br />
Parent-child interaction: ..................................................................................................................40<br />
Parent training: ................................................................................................................................40<br />
Skill development: ..........................................................................................................................40<br />
Techniques used ..............................................................................................................................40<br />
Therapy ...............................................................................................................................................40<br />
How it works...................................................................................................................................40<br />
There are four important BSFT steps:.............................................................................................41<br />
Barriers and problems .....................................................................................................................41<br />
Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse............................................................42<br />
Foreword .............................................................................................................................................42<br />
Chapter 1 - Brief Strategic Family Therapy: An Overview................................................................43<br />
BSFT is based on three basic principles. ........................................................................................43<br />
Why Brief Strategic Family Therapy? ............................................................................................44<br />
What Are the Goals of Brief Strategic Family Therapy?................................................................44<br />
What Are the Most Common Problems Facing the Family of a Drug-Abusing Adolescent?........44<br />
The Family Profile of a Drug-Abusing Adolescent ........................................................................45<br />
The Behavioral Profile of a Drug-Abusing Adolescent..................................................................45<br />
Negativity in the Family..................................................................................................................45<br />
What Is Not the Focus of Brief Strategic Family Therapy?............................................................46<br />
This Manual ....................................................................................................................................46<br />
Chapter 2 - Basic Concepts of Brief Strategic Family Therapy..........................................................47<br />
Context ............................................................................................................................................47<br />
Family as Context ...........................................................................................................................47<br />
Peers as Context ..............................................................................................................................47<br />
Neighborhood as Context................................................................................................................47<br />
Culture as Context...........................................................................................................................48<br />
Counseling as Context.....................................................................................................................48<br />
Systems ...........................................................................................................................................48<br />
A Whole Organism .........................................................................................................................48<br />
Family Systemic Influences ............................................................................................................48<br />
The Principle of Complementarity..................................................................................................49<br />
Structure: Patterns of Family Interaction ........................................................................................49<br />
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