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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I Thinking of a Family Therapist
• 1 General Systems Theory
• Systems Theory
• Lineal Versus Circular Causality
• Homeostasis
• Systems
• Exercising Your Understanding 1.1
• Content and Process
• Exercising Your Understanding 1.2
• Patterns of Relationships
• Changing Patterns
• Exercising Your Understanding 1.3
• Exercising Your Understanding 1.4
• Questions for Expansion
• 2 Self of the Therapist
• Caring About Others
• Self-Reflection
• Exercising Your Understanding 2.1
• Building Your Genogram
• Exercising Your Understanding 2.2
• Countertransference
• Exercising Your Understanding 2.3
• Mindfulness
• Exercising Your Understanding 2.4
• The Self of the Therapist
• Burnout
• Therapist Self-Care
• Exercising Your Understanding 2.5
• Questions for Expansion
• 3 Who is Your Client?
• Patient Versus Client
• The Identified Patient
• Types of Therapist-Client Relationships
• Exercising Your Understanding 3.1
• Stages of Readiness for Change
• Exercising Your Understanding 3.2
• The Client as Expert
• Questions for Expansion
• 4 Diversity
• Diversity
• Multiculturalism
• Privilege
• Cultural Competence
• Exercising Your Understanding 4.1
• Questions for Expansion
• Part II Skills of a Family Therapist
• 5 Beginning the Family Therapy Session
• The Initial Phone Call
• Introducing Yourself
• Exercising Your Understanding 5.1
• Who to Begin With
• The Therapeutic Relationship
• Joining
• Goals of a First Session
• Questions for Expansion
• 6 Basic Empathy Skills
• Three Core Conditions
• Empathy
• Door Openers
• Minimal Encouragers
• Client Narratives
• Paraphrasing
• Exercising Your Understanding 6.1
• Exercising Your Understanding 6.2
• Keeping Paraphrases Nonjudgmental
• Exercising Your Understanding 6.3
• Exercising Your Understanding 6.4
• Beginning of the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 6.5
• Questions for Expansion
• 7 Advanced Empathy Skills
• Identifying Emotions
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.1
• Levels of Intensity of Feelings
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.2
• Distinguishing Between Content and Feeling
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.3
• Reflections of Feelings
• Straightforward Versus Combination Reflections
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.4
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.5
• Keeping the Focus on the Client
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.6
• Reflecting From the Client’s Voice
• Building the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.7
• Metaphors
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.8
• Temporality
• Reflection of Meaning
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.9
• Building the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 7.10
• Questions for Expansion
• 8 Mutualization
• Mutualizing
• Joining
• Mutualizing the Issue Cycle
• Ordering the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 8.1
• Reframing
• Exercising Your Understanding 8.2
• Focusing on Process Rather than Content
• Deconstructing the Symptom
• Questions for Expansion
• 9 Effective Use of Questions
• Purpose of Questions
• Perception Checking
• Open Versus Closed Questions
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.1
• Why is Why Bad?
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.2
• Don’t You Think Do You Think Questions are Problematic?
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.3
• Relational Questions
• Questions as Interventions
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.4
• Client Questions and Empathy
• Pitfalls of Questions
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.5
• Building the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 9.6
• Questions for Expansion
• 10 Use of Self in Therapy
• Vocalics
• Exercising Your Understanding 10.1
• Humor
• Challenges
• Exercising Your Understanding 10.2
• Self-Disclosure
• Exercising Your Understanding 10.3
• Exercising Your Understanding 10.4
• Immediacy
• Questions for Expansion
• 11 Dealing with Intensity
• Decreasing Intensity
• Increasing Intensity
• Developing Enactments
• Exercising Your Understanding 11.1
• Movement and Touch
• Exercising Your Understanding 11.2
• Being Creative and Playful
• Exercising Your Understanding 11.3
• Exercising Your Understanding 11.4
• Questions for Expansion
• 12 Goal Setting and Termination
• Summarizing
• Exercising Your Understanding 12.1
• Goal Setting
• Building the Issue Cycle
• Exercising Your Understanding 12.2
• Prioritizing Goals
• Termination
• Questions for Expansion
• Part III Theory of a Family Therapist
• 13 Intergenerational Family Therapies
• Bowen Family Systems Theory
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Exercising Your Understanding 13.1
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Contextual Family Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Questions for Expansion
• 14 Experiential Family Therapies
• Satir’s Growth Model
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Exercising Your Understanding 14.1
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Exercising Your Understanding 14.2
• Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Questions for Expansion
• 15 Strategic Family Therapies
• MRI Brief Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Exercising Your Understanding 15.1
• Strategic Family Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Questions for Expansion
• 16 Systemic Family Therapies
• Structural Family Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Exercising Your Understanding 16.1
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Milan Systemic Family Therapy
• Developers of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• The Three Guidelines
• Hypothesizing
• Circularity
• Exercising Your Understanding 16.2
• Neutrality
• Interventions
• Questions for Expansion
• 17 Postmodern Family Therapies
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Exercising Your Understanding 17.1
• Narrative Therapy
• Developer of the Model
• Theory of Problem Formation
• Theory of Problem Resolution
• Exercising Your Understanding 17.2
• Exercising Your Understanding 17.3
• Questions for Expansion
• 18 Future of Family Therapy
• Common Factors
• Core Competencies
• Evidence-Supported/Empirically Supported Therapies
• Conclusion
• Questions for Expansion
• Appendix: Master “Cheat Sheet”
• References
• Index