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A step-by-step guide to assessing couples and families, this text offers a clear delineation of the process of family therapy through richly illustrated case material, featuring clients from a diversity of backgrounds

Appealing to both experienced and novel therapists, Assessing Families and Couples portrays a clear picture of what occurs in a two-session model in conducting a family therapy assessment. In the absence of a videotape to depict the process of therapy, readers can still visualize the details of the therapeutic journey in a step-by-step manner. Students and instructors, alike, will find this book an invaluable tool for the learning and teaching of family therapy assessment.

The text begins with a brief historical review of family therapy today and continues with a detailed explanation of the authors' four-step assessment model. The assessment model is illustrated by a series of thoroughly detailed case studies, featuring African-American, European, Latin-American, Spanish, Irish, and Chinese families.

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• Preface(p. xiii)
• 1 Introduction: A Four-Step Model for Assessing Families and Couples(p. 1)
• A Short Review of the Evolution of Family Therapy(p. 1)
• An Equally Short Review of the Evolution of Structural Family Therapy(p. 3)
• The Therapist's Style 50 Years Later(p. 5)
• Nonverbal Interventions(p. 6)
• The Use of Metaphor(p. 6)
• A Map for Assessing Families and Giving Directions to Therapy(p. 8)
• A Four-Step Model of Family Assessment(p. 9)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 9)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 9)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 10)
• Step 4 An Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 11)
• One Last Moment of Reflection(p. 12)
• A Word About the Therapist(p. 13)
• Part 1 Troubled Children and Their Parents(p. 15)
• 2 The Parentified Child(p. 19)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 20)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 21)
• Second Session(p. 24)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 25)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 27)
• Coda(p. 31)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 32)
• Family Organization(p. 32)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 32)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 33)
• Techniques(p. 33)
• 3 Conflictual Couple/Triangulated Children(p. 35)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 36)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 38)
• Second Session(p. 40)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 41)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 45)
• Coda(p. 46)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 46)
• Family Organization(p. 46)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 47)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 47)
• Techniques(p. 48)
• Part 2 Stepfamilies(p. 51)
• 4 The Teenager Who Was a Liar(p. 55)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 56)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 57)
• Second Session(p. 61)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 61)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 65)
• Coda(p. 46)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 66)
• Family Organization(p. 66)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 67)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 67)
• Techniques(p. 67)
• 5 Three Dyads Are Less Than a Whole Family(p. 69)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 69)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 73)
• Second Session(p. 77)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 77)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 81)
• Coda(p. 84)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 84)
• Family Organization(p. 84)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 85)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 85)
• Techniques(p. 86)
• Part 3 Complementary Couples(p. 87)
• 6 Agitated Depression in an Adult Woman(p. 91)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 91)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 97)
• Notes About the Session(p. 102)
• Second Session(p. 102)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 102)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 104)
• Reflections(p. 106)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 106)
• Family Organization(p. 106)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 107)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 107)
• Techniques(p. 107)
• 7 The Woman Whose Hands Were Always Dirty(p. 109)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 110)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 112)
• Second Session(p. 114)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 114)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 115)
• Reflections(p. 116)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 116)
• Family Organization(p. 116)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 116)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 117)
• Techniques(p. 117)
• Part 4 Psychosomatic Families(p. 119)
• 8 Oedipus with Stomach Cramps(p. 123)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 124)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 128)
• Second Session(p. 131)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 131)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 135)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 136)
• Family Organization(p. 136)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 137)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 137)
• Techniques(p. 138)
• 9 A Young Chinese Man with Anorexia Nervosa(p. 139)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 139)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 142)
• Second Session(p. 148)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 149)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 154)
• Reflections(p. 156)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 157)
• Family Organization(p. 157)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 157)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 157)
• Techniques(p. 157)
• Part 5 The Family and Social Services(p. 159)
• 10 Three Generations of Women(p. 165)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 165)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 168)
• Second Session(p. 170)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 171)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 175)
• Coda(p. 179)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 180)
• Family Organization(p. 180)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 180)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 181)
• Techniques(p. 181)
• 11 Residual Treatment of Drug Addiction and the Family(p. 183)
• Step 1 Opening Up the Presenting Complaint(p. 184)
• Step 2 Highlighting Problem-Maintaining Interactions(p. 186)
• Second Session(p. 192)
• Step 3 A Structurally Focused Exploration of the Past(p. 192)
• Step 4 Exploration of Alternative Ways of Relating(p. 197)
• Coda(p. 198)
• Therapeutic Framework(p. 198)
• Family Organization(p. 198)
• Individual Perspectives(p. 199)
• Strategies of Intervention(p. 199)
• Techniques(p. 200)
• Epilogue(p. 201)
• Index(p. 205)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Salvador Minuchin was born in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina on October 13, 1921. He received a medical degree from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina and then enlisted in the Israeli Army during the 1948 war for independence. He studied child psychiatry in the United States. He returned to Israel to treat Holocaust orphans and children displaced by wars, then came back to New York to train in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute.

He went on to work as a child psychiatrist at the Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys in the Hudson Valley, where he developed his theory of structural family therapy. He co-wrote several books including Families of the Slums, Family Healing: Tales of Hope and Renewal from Family Therapy, and Institutionalizing Madness: Families, Therapy and Society. In the mid-1960s, he was the director of psychiatry at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He retired as the clinic's director in 1975 and served as director emeritus and head of training until 1983.

He moved to New York to establish the Family Studies Institute (now the Minuchin Center for the Family), a nonprofit training center for therapists. He also joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine as a research professor. He retired in 1996. He died from heart disease on October 30, 2017 at the age of 96.

(Bowker Author Biography)