San Antonio College Library

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part One Understanding Families and Family Dynamics Chapter 1: Individual and Family Life Cycles Chapter 2: Healthy and Dysfunctional Families Part Two Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Families Chapter 3: Rationale and History of Family Therapy Chapter 4: The Process of Family Therapy Chapter 5: Couple and Marriage Enrichment and Therapy Chapter 6: Psychodynamic and Bowen Family Therapies Chapter 7: Experiential Family Therapies...

"A milestone in the continuing evolution of contextual therapy, this insightful volume rests firmly on Martin Buber's philosophy of the word (speech with meaning), and on the contributions of Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy." "Truth, Trust, and Relationships identifies direct address, a dialogic way of address and response as the fundamental means of healing in relationships, especially in the family. The authors see "residual trust" (the summation of an invisible...

"This volume presents a valuable framework for conducting family therapy sessions in the home, school, and community. Drawing upon years of frontline work in family therapy practice, training, and supervision, Nancy Boyd-Franklin and Brenna Hafer Bry illuminate vital concepts and skills for helping families deal effectively with a variety of life challenges, including the effects of racism and other societal stressors. Illustrated with extensive clinical...

"In the past, music therapy with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book reflects the variety of settings within which music therapists are now working with children together with their families." "The contributors are music therapists with experience of working with children and their families in a range of different environments,...

This book focuses on the treatment of families at psychosocial risk, outlining an integrative approach to early intervention, and providing both a theoretical and a very practical approach to intervention with the most at-risk families.

This text examines research on the relationship between the family and schizophrenia, and relates the family therapies which have grown from this, as well as the support which is currently available to families.

"This book, while conceived as a professional volume, can be used in a variety of courses. This book covers areas such as symptoms of trauma, how to assess and plan treatment, how to educate adolescents about their trauma, and how to intervene with family and in group therapy. It contains a variety of cases for illustrative purposes"--Provided by publisher.

Family-of-origin therapy is a psychodynamically oriented intervention approach developed by Murray Bowen and James Framo. Assessment and therapy focus on the multigenerational family history as the basis for perceptions of current adult relationships. This book describes family-of-origin therapy in an understandable manner that is easily applied to clinical practice. Concepts such as differentiation, triangulation, emotional reactivity, and object...