Destructive Myths in Family Therapy

Daniela Kramer-Moore , Michael Moore 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 04월 10일 출간

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Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members. Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

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Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Part I Seeing The Choices weMake 1 1. Blindness, orWith EyesWide Shut 5 Dangers, Taboos, and Punishments 8 Identified Patients 9 A Continuum of Blindness 10 Total blindness 11 Tunnel vision 11 Partial vision 12 Broad vistas 12 Clear vision 12 Surprise, Surprise! 13 The Irreversibility of Seeing 14 Activities 15 1 Pin the tail 15 2 Blind walk 15 3 Blind spots 16 4 Train ride 16 5 Picture gallery 17 6 To see ourselves as others see us 17 2. Distortions, or It’s All for the Best! 18 A Few Ego Defense Mechanisms 20 Family Defense Mechanisms 21 Activities 30 1 Family map 1 30 2 Family map 2 31 3 Family gossip 31 4What do the neighbors think about us? 32 5 Masquerade 32 3. Insight through Therapy, or To See or Not To See 33 The Goals of Therapy 35 Stages of Therapy 37 Stage 1: Insightful recognition of PFPs 37 Stage 2: The implementation of change 40 Stage 3: Evaluation and conclusion 47 Activities 49 1 Family pain mapping 49 2 Genogram 49 3 Roles 50 4 A sack of stones 50 5 Conflict orWhat is this quarrel about? 51 6Windows 51 4. Making TherapyWork, or PracticeWhat You Preach 52 The Therapist as Client 53 Neutrality, Empathy, Authenticity, and Creativity 54 The Therapeutic Agreement 58 Types of Clients 61 Stopping and Reflecting 62 Implementing Change 63 Individual vs. Family Therapy 64 A FewWords on Group Psychotherapy 65 About the Activities 66 Multicultural Perspective 67 Activities 70 1 Agreement 70 2 Listen! 70 3 Good cop, bad cop 71 4 The four Fs 71 5 Empathy training

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"Although the title might suggest a relatively narrow target audience of family therapists, I feel certain that the fascinating ideas addressed here, coupled with the accessible style, would also speak to the experienced therapist, the trainee and the lay reader alike. By focusing on what is actually said in spousal, sibling and parental relationships, the authors invite the reader to reflect on the powerful and often destructive myths, narratives, schemas call them what you will that underpin family systems." (Therapy Today, 1 September 2012)

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저자(글) Daniela Kramer-Moore

Daniela Kramer-Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. A family therapist with many years' experience of working with high risk adolescents and their families, she now heads the post-graduate Psychotherapy Centre at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel, where she previously led the Masters program in Educational Counselling. Michael Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. He is a social psychologist with many scholarly publications in the field, and was until recently Head of the Department of Education in Technology and Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

저자(글) Michael Moore