
Please Help Me With This Family
Using Consultants As Resources In Family Therapy
Brunner-Mazel Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 1994
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-87630-748-9 (ISBN)
Description
Please Help Me With This Family is based on the premise that it is generally useful to expand the therapeutic system when it is not working. By calling in additional resources when therapy reaches an impasse, the therapist is giving two strong messages to stuck families-(1)the admission of the failure of the present system to grow beyond the impasse, and (2) a model of creativity in recruiting resources to improve chances of success. Often, the resources in the large system hold the keys to uncovering and correcting troublesome relationships and behaviors in the smaller system. Please Help Me With This Family is divided into four major sections, each illustrating unique approaches and methods for unlocking resources in family and therapeutic systems. The first section opens with a comprehensive review of the theoretical roots of family therapy consultation, followed by a discussion of the different faces of consultation around the world; a detailed case study of an anorectic family in which Maurizio Andolfi successfully provokes a therapeutic impasse; and to which Carl Whitaker provides fascinating insights into his role as a consultant. Section II discusses the variety of consultative resources available in the client system and how best to harness them. Chapters cover using the child as consultant; using family of origin and friends as resources; and the use of consultation in treating addictions. Using colleagues as consultants is the focus of the third section. Consultation has the advantage over cotherapy and supervision of requiring only a brief, cost?effective relationship. Chapters discuss how therapists can avoid replicating errors by working closely with the client's previous therapist: an eco?systemic approach with chronic pain sufferers that involves medical, family, and community systems in Israel; using consultation to evaluate therapy; the creative?preventive possibilities inherent in collegial consultation; how a family therapist and school system personnel can be mutually helpful with a conjoint problem; and a consultation that focuses on the position of the therapist rather than on the client system. Finally, Section IV addresses consultation as a valuable form of professional development. It explores the importance of timing when using a consultant; the effects on five therapists of live case demonstrations with Maurizio Andolfi as consultant; and consultation to correct gender prejudice. Contributors to this volume include Vincenzo F. DiNicola, Elizabeth Ridgely, Joseph Simons, David Keith, Jim Guinan, William Jones, Lars Brok, Joel Elizur, Sara B. Jutoran, Noga Rubinstein?Nabarro, Bob Wendt, Audrey Ellenwood, Peter Liggett, Marsha Purvis, Mary Hotvedt, and Marcella de Nichilo. Students and clinicians who wish to practice consulting as well as family therapists who want to learn creative approaches to handling the dilemmas that arise in therapy will find Please Help Me With This Family to be an incomparable resource.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87630-748-9 (9780876307489)
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Using Consultants As Resources In Family Therapy
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Persons
Maurizio Andolfi, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Rome; President of the Italian Society of Family Therapy; and Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia. He is also Editor of the journal Terapia Familiare, author of Family Therapy, and coauthor of The Myth of Atlas and Behind the Family Mask. Russell Haber, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is Coordinator of Training, Counseling and Human Development Center, University of South Carolina, and Director, South Carolina Institute for Systemic/Experiential Therapy.
Content
Contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, I. AN OVERVIEW OF CONSULTATION WITH FAMILY THERAPY SYSTEMS, 1. Introduction: Consultative Resources in Family Therapy, 2. The Strange and the Familiar: Cross-Cultural Encounters Among Families, Therapists, and Consultants, 3. The Self of the Consultant: In or Out?, 4. The Inner Life of the Consultant, II. ELICITING RESOURCES FROM THE CLIENTS' SYSTEM, 5. The Child as Consultant, 6. The Family of Origin as Therapeutic Consultant to the Family, 7. With a Little Help from My Friends: Friends as Consultative Resources, 8. The Impact of Multiple Consultants in the Treatment of Addictions, III. ELICITING COLLEGIAL RESOURCES FROM THE THERAPIST'S SYSTEM, 9. The Referrer: Colleague, Client, or Pain in the Ass, 10. Whose Pain Is It?: Consulting at the Interface Between Families and Social-Medical Systems, 11. Consultation as Evaluation of Therapy, 12. Sequential Preventive Meta-Consultation (SPMC): A Model of Collegial Consultation in Systems Therapy, 13. From Impotence to Activation: Conjoint Systemic Change in the Family and School, 14. Peppa: An Indirect Consultation Concerning the Myth of Strength and Weakness, IV. CONSULTATION AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 15. Consultation in the Training Moment, 16. Increasing Mastery: The Effects ofthe Workshop Consultation on the Consultee, 17. The Body as the Expert: Gender Perspective in Consultation with Young Therapists, Name Index, Subject Index