Clinical Practice with Families: Supporting Creativity and Competence

ISBN-13: 9780789010841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 270 str.

Michael Rothery;George Enns;¬Abar

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Written for family therapists, this book integrates clinical concepts like personal boundaries, family development, and narrative understanding to form a single basic framework. Supporting its theoretical positions with case studies, the book offers advice on negotiating boundaries, mapping a client's support systems, reinterpreting family traditio

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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

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Rothery, Michael; Enns, George