Please Help Me With This Family: Using Consultants As Resources In Family Therapy

ISBN-13: 9780876307489 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 312 str.

Maurizio Andolfi;Russell Haber;Maurizio Andolfi

Opis

Illustrates approaches and methods for unlocking resources in family and therapeutic systems. Provides a review of the theoretical roots of family therapy consultation, and discusses consultive resources in the client system and how best to utilize them. Address issues such as using friends, childre

Spis treści

Contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, I. AN OVERVIEW OF CONSULTATION WITH FAMILY THERAPY SYSTEMS, 1. Introduction: Consultative Resources in Family Therapy, 2. The Strange and the Familiar: Cross-Cultural Encounters Among Families, Therapists, and Consultants, 3. The Self of the Consultant: In or Out?, 4. The Inner Life of the Consultant, II. ELICITING RESOURCES FROM THE CLIENTS' SYSTEM, 5. The Child as Consultant, 6. The Family of Origin as Therapeutic Consultant to the Family, 7. With a Little Help from My Friends: Friends as Consultative Resources, 8. The Impact of Multiple Consultants in the Treatment of Addictions, III. ELICITING COLLEGIAL RESOURCES FROM THE THERAPIST'S SYSTEM, 9. The Referrer: Colleague, Client, or Pain in the Ass, 10. Whose Pain Is It?: Consulting at the Interface Between Families and Social-Medical Systems, 11. Consultation as Evaluation of Therapy, 12. Sequential Preventive Meta-Consultation (SPMC): A Model of Collegial Consultation in Systems Therapy, 13. From Impotence to Activation: Conjoint Systemic Change in the Family and School, 14. Peppa: An Indirect Consultation Concerning the Myth of Strength and Weakness, IV. CONSULTATION AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 15. Consultation in the Training Moment, 16. Increasing Mastery: The Effects ofthe Workshop Consultation on the Consultee, 17. The Body as the Expert: Gender Perspective in Consultation with Young Therapists, Name Index, Subject Index

O autorze

Maurizio Andolfi, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Rome; President of the Italian Society of Family Therapy; and Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia. He is also Editor of the journal Terapia Familiare, author of Family Therapy, and coauthor of The Myth of Atlas and Behind the Family Mask. Russell Haber, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is Coordinator of Training, Counseling and Human Development Center, University of South Carolina, and Director, South Carolina Institute for Systemic/Experiential Therapy.