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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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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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