An introduction to family therapy: systemic theory and practice

✍ Scribed by Dallos, Rudi

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 490
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an overview of the core concepts in family therapy & related systemic practice and their development from the 1950s to the present day, with reflections throughout on the current state of practice.

Abstract:

The fourth edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Family Therapy provides an overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Machine generated contents note: Experiences of systemic and family therapy --
A family's view --
Two therapists' views --
What is the f̀amily'? --
The family life cycle --
Allowing the family a voice --
The organizing framework of this book --
Key texts offering a historical overview of systemic and family therapy --
Setting the scene --
1950s --
1.The first phase --
1950s to mid-1970s --
Cultural landscape --
Influential people and ideas --
Seeds of systemic and family therapy --
Systemic thinking --
from intrapsychic to interpersonal --
Systems theory --
biological, analogy --
Emergent properties of a system --
Circularities --
Triads, triangulation, and conflict detouring --
Rules, pattern, and process --
Feedback --
Family coordination through communication --
Double-bind concept --
Meta-communication --
Open and closed systems --
Family homeostasis --
Family life cycle --
Practice --
Structural family therapy --
Beliefs and, structures --
Therapeutic orientations

✦ Subjects

Family psychotherapy.