An Introduction to Family Therapy

2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22470-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

This is a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the theory and practice of systemic family therapy, offering an overview of the core conceptual framework, illustrated throughout by lively examples drawn from clinical practice. The book has been carefully designed as a teaching tool, and includes a set of resources which can be used by individual readers or as part of teaching workshops. This new edition has been comprehensively updated throughout. Key additions and changes include: more on the evidence base for the effectiveness of family therapy, a stronger focus on attachment and psychodynamic perspectives, an entirely new chapter on systemic formulation, and an entirely new chapter on practice development 2000-2004.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dallos, Rudi

Draper, Ros

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Notes on the authors

Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements - Rudi Dallos

Acknowledgements and dedication - Ros Draper

Introduction

The first phase - 1950s to mid-70s

The second phase - mid-1970s to mid-1980s

The third phase - mid-1980s to 2000

Ideas that keep knocking on the door: emotions, attachments and systems

Systemic formulation

Current practice development 2000-2005: conversations across the boundaries of models

Research and evaluation

Reflections and critique 2005

Postscripts

Topic reading lists

Formats for exploration

Glossary of terms

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rudi Dallos is Programme Director and Reader in Clinical Psychology on the Plymouth University doctoral training course in clinical psychology. He is also a consultant clinical psychologist specialising in therapeutic work with adolescents and their families in Somerset. His other books with Open University Press include: Couples, Sex and Power (with Sally Dallos), Researching Psychotherapy and Counselling (with Arlene Vetere) and Attachment Narrative Therapy.

Ros Draper is a therapist and teacher who has made major contributions to the development of family therapy in Britain over the last 30 years. As Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and the Institute of Family Therapy, London, she has worked in both adult and child psychiatric settings. Ros chairs for the Institute of Family Therapy and Birkbeck College, University of London their course in a Systemic Approach to Management and Consultation and has a private practice in Hampshire where she sees individuals, couples, families and organizations.