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• 100 Key Points
• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1 SYSTEMS THEORY
• 1 What is a system?
• 2 The family as a system
• 3 Individuals and systems
• 4 Circularity and interconnection
• 5 Structures and contexts
• 6 Family rules, contexts and meanings
• 7 History and development
• 8 Meaning and time frames
• 9 The life cycle and transitions
• 10 Transitions and stress
• Part 2 COMPLEXITIES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS
• 11 Doesn’t systems theory make it sound as if people are ‘things’?
• 12 Doesn’t family therapy ignore the individual?
• 13 What about the ‘self’ of the therapist?
• 14 Doesn’t family therapy ignore the social contexts of families?
• 15 Is family therapy sexist?
• 16 Does family therapy promote what it sees as a ‘normal family’?
• 17 Is there such a thing as one ‘family therapy’?
• Part 3 BEGINNING THERAPY
• 18 Collaborative integrative ethical therapy model
• 19 Who is the customer?
• 20 Contacting and convening
• 21 Meeting the individuals
• 22 Explaining the process
• 23 Listening to the story
• 24 Capturing everyone’s perspective
• 25 Asking and empathy
• 26 The therapeutic alliance
• 27 Neutrality and the curious position
• 28 Reflection of feeling
• 29 Reflection of interaction
• 30 Tracking interactions
• 31 Establishing the family ideology
• 32 Children and play
• 33 Observation of interaction in the room
• 34 Establishing the family’s position regarding therapy
• 35 Feedback and providing summaries
• 36 Considering external systemic pressures
• 37 Family resilience
• 38 Investigating the family supportive network
• 39 Setting the therapy agenda
• Part 4 THE THERAPIST’S TECHNIQUES
• 40 Hypothesising and formulating
• 41 Expanding contexts
• 42 Talking about difficult subjects
• 43 Working with blaming interactions
• 44 Constructing a family history narrative—a genogram
• 45 Reframing and positive connotation
• 46 Assessment in family therapy
• 47 Building motivation to change
• 48 Encounter moments and process change
• Part 5 DEVELOPING INTERVENTIONS
• 49 Circular questions
• 50 Using questions to clarify and expand
• 51 Using questions to open communication
• 52 Using questions to break repetitive patterns
• 53 Using questions to link time—the past and present
• 54 Using questions to link time—the future and present
• 55 Asking questions to place behaviour in a normative context
• 56 Investigating problem-solving solutions
• 57 Making suggestions within questions
• 58 Enactment
• 59 Homework tasks
• 60 Working with family scripts
• 61 Letters to clients
• Part 6 TECHNIQUES FROM SCHOOLS OF FAMILY THERAPY
• 62 Techniques from the strategic school of family therapy
• 63 Techniques from structural family therapy
• 64 Techniques from solution-focused family therapy
• 65 Techniques from narrative family therapy
• 66 Techniques from attachment-based therapies
• 67 Techniques from psycho-educational approaches
• Part 7 ENDING THERAPY
• 68 Reviewing progress
• 69 Termination
• 70 Early termination
• 71 Follow-up
• 72 Assessment of outcome
• Part 8 THE SELF OF THE THERAPIST
• 73 Congruence—the use of self
• 74 The therapist’s own family scripts
• 75 Developing a therapeutic presence
• 76 Developing a therapeutic style
• 77 The use of disclosure in therapy
• 78 The wounded healer and human suffering
• 79 Cultural competency and the family therapist
• 80 Finding a place of ‘not knowing’
• Part 9 DEALING WITH COMMON CHALLENGES IN FAMILY THERAPY
• 81 How to manage ‘resistance’ in family therapy
• 82 How to manage getting ‘stuck’ in therapy
• 83 How to manage conflict within a session
• 84 How to manage strong emotions in a session
• 85 How to manage secrets and half truths
• 86 How to manage absence from sessions
• 87 How to manage children who ‘misbehave’ in sessions
• 88 How to manage failure
• Part 10 FAMILY THERAPY IN CONTEXTS
• 89 General contexts of practice
• 90 Contexts where abuse has occurred
• 91 Couples’ and marital therapy
• 92 Consultation and family therapy
• 93 Private practice
• 94 Diversity
• Part 11 DEBATES AND ISSUES
• 95 Integrating other therapeutic modalities into family therapy
• 96 Family therapy, family support and family counselling
• 97 What is postmodernism and why has it influenced family therapy so much?
• 98 Teams and co-therapy in family therapy practice
• 99 Training and supervision in family therapy
• 100 Towards the future for family therapy
• References