Family Therapy

100 Key Points and Techniques
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-138-82371-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: 100 Key Points

Family therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to family therapy. Through a range of case examples, the authors describe how family therapists begin and progress their therapy. Each section of the book is constructed to lead both beginning and experienced clinicians into the acquisition of new skills.

This new edition covers:

- The use of formulation and hypotheses in family therapy practice

- How relational patterns function and how to change negative ones

- Initial skills and principles to help families change their patterns

- Advanced family therapy interviewing

- Evidence-based models of family therapy

- Contemporary issues in family therapy practice

Family Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques is an invaluable resource for psychotherapists and counsellors in training and in practice. As well as appealing to established family therapists, this new edition should also find an audience with other mental health professionals working with families and interested in learning more about family therapy techniques.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivett, Mark

Street, Eddy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section One: The space between

1. Invisible webs of connection

2. Systems theory

3. Systems are not static

4. Taking a broader position on systems

5. Towards the ‘systemic mind’

Section Two: Family spaces

6. The multiverse of families

7. The family life cycle

8. Horizontal and vertical stressors

9. The family building

10. The lines of connection

11. Families and meaning

12. Families and emotions

13. Gender and the family

14. Race and the family

15. Culture and the family

16. The social GRRRAAACCEEESSS

17. Symptoms and functions  Section Three: Controversies and debates about systems theory

18. Making people into ‘cogs in the machine’

19. Systems theory as the ‘normality police’  20. Systems theory as a ‘grand narrative’ 21. Decolonising systems theory

Section Four: Foundational Principles 22. Collaboration 23. The therapeutic alliance 24. Safety and empowerment 25. Doing what works: evidence- based practice 26. Accountability to employers and clients 27. Reflective practice 28. The self of the therapist

Section Five: Assessing Families 29. Assessment and family therapy 30. Assessment tools 31. Conversational systemic assessment: what do we need to know about the family? 32. How does the problem affect the family? 33. How does the family affect the problem?

34. Broadening the assessment: taking into account multiple levels of context 35. Assessing emotional upsets, pain and trauma 36. Hypothesizing and formulation 37. Assessing for change and building motivation

Section Six: Beginning therapy: interactive interviewing

38. Interactive interviewing

39. Using a family tree (genogram) to stimulate interactive interviewing technique

40. Drawing feedback loops to highlight interactive cycles

41. Bringing interaction into the conversation

42. Evoking interaction curiosity by reflecting on patterns

43. Interactional goal setting

Section Seven: Further into the therapy: interventive interviewing

44. What do we talk about? Bringing formulations and hypotheses to bear in family therapy

45. Intention, intervention and persistence

46. Circular questions

47. Using circular questions to connect family members to the identified problem

48. Using circular questions to interrupt patterns and invite new patterns

49. Using circular questions to deepen understanding

50. Using circular questions to clarify and expand time frames

51. Reframing in family therapy

52. Progressive reframing and Ockham’s razor

53. Externalisation in family therapy

54. Enactment: an action method in family therapy

55. ‘Sculpting’ in family therapy practice

Section Eight: Developing family therapy skills

56: Talking about talking

57: Integrating difference into the therapeutic conversation

58: The dual mind of the therapist

59: Working systemically with emotions

60: Working with blame and negativity

61: Taking the therapist’s voice into everyday life

62: Bringing the therapeutic relationship into the conversation

63: Interrupting and guiding the process

64: More perspective taking techniques

65: Working with family scripts

Section Nine: Common issues in family therapy

66: ‘Resistance’ in family therapy

67: Getting ‘stuck’ in family therapy

68: Distracting and alluring dramas in family therapy

69: Secrets in family therapy

70: Absent family members

71: The mantra of “I don’t know” in family therapy

72: Meeting the needs of diverse family members

73: Endings in family therapy

74: Failure in family therapy

Section Ten: Beyond technique

75: Embodying therapeutic presence

76: Excellence in family therapy

77: Walking into words: using language purposefully

78: When themes get blocked

79: Trusting the process

80: Transformational moments

81: Further journeys into self

82: On knowing not to know: letting go of systems theory

Section Eleven: The schools of family therapy

83: The family therapy generations

84: The first generation: psychodynamic, structural , strategic and Milan

85: The second generation: Social Justice and Post-Milan

86: The third generation: the post-modern revolution in narrative and solution focused approaches

87: The fourth generation: collaborative and evidence-based approaches

88: The contemporary generation

Section Twelve: Evidence based family therapies

89: The evidence-based family therapies

90: Adolescent eating disorders

91: Adolescent depression and suicidality

92: Disruptive adolescent behaviour

93: Family approaches in working with psychosis

94: Evidence-based couple therapy models

95: Multi-family group therapy

Section Thirteen: Contemporary issues in family therapy

96: ‘Family work’ and its relationship to family therapy

97: Digital family therapy

98: Team work in family therapy

99: Becoming a family therapist

100: The family and its therapy

Resources for family therapists

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Rivett, MSc, has practiced family therapy for forty years in a range of mental health settings. He has taught family therapy in three UK Universities and provided plenary speeches internationally. He has published on a range of subjects within family therapy including child mental health, domestic abuse and the use of ‘gaming’ in therapy. He is a previous editor of the Journal of Family Therapy.

Eddy Street, PhD, worked as a clinical and counselling psychologist for over forty years in services focused on child mental health. He has written widely on family therapy and taught both in the UK and internationally. He is a previous editor of the Journal of Family Therapy.