Family Therapy
A Systemic Integration
7th Edition
Published on 28. November 2008
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Hardback
432 pages
978-0-205-60923-9 (ISBN)
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This comprehensive, yet user-friendly survey of the field of marriage and family therapy takes a holistic view and looks at people within the context of their environment.
The systemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understanding people and families in context. The text - divided into three sections including "The Systemic Framework," "The Practice of Family Therapy," and "The Systemic Practitioner" - includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a "dynamic process model" for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, Assessment; Intervention; Training/Supervision; Research; and Epistemological Challenges are described and discussed
The systemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understanding people and families in context. The text - divided into three sections including "The Systemic Framework," "The Practice of Family Therapy," and "The Systemic Practitioner" - includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a "dynamic process model" for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, Assessment; Intervention; Training/Supervision; Research; and Epistemological Challenges are described and discussed
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7th edition
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English
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United States
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Pearson Education (US)
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College/higher education
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Height: 244 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
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830 gr
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978-0-205-60923-9 (9780205609239)
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Content
Preface
Part I The Systemic Framework
1 Two Different Worldviews
The Framework of Individual Psychology The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy
Basic Concepts of Systems Theory and Cybernetics
Family Therapy or Relationship Therapy Summary
2 The Historic Perspective
Planting the Seeds: The 1940s
Cybernetics
Development on Interdisciplinary Approaches
Gregory Bateson
Putting Down Roots: The 1950s
Bateson (Continued)
The Double Bind Hypothesis
Nathan Ackerman
Murray Bowen
Carl Whitaker
Theodore Lidz
Lyman Wynne
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
John Elderkin Bell
Christian F. Midelfort
Overview of the 1950s
The Plant Begins to Bud: The 1960s Paradigm Shift
The MRI
Salvador Minuchin
Other Developments
Blossom Time: The 1970s
Psychodynamic Approaches
Natural Systems Theory
Experiential Approaches
Structural Approaches
Communication Approaches
Behavioral Approaches
Gregory Bateson
Connecting and Integrating: The 1980s
Other Voices
The Limits of History
Controversy, Conflict, and Beyond: The 1990s
The Feminist Critique
Family Therapy and Family Medicine
Integration and Metaframeworks
Managed Care
The Twenty-First Century: Continuing Concerns and
Emerging Trends
Summary
3 The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory
A Cybernetic Epistemology Recursion
Feedback
Morphostasis/Morphogenesis
Rules and Boundaries
Openness/Closedness
Entropy/Negentropy
Equifinality/Equipotentiality
Communication and Information Processing
Relationship and Wholeness
Goals and Purposes
Cybernetics of Cybernetics Wholeness and Self-Reference
Openness and Closedness
Autopoiesis
Structural Determinism
Structural Coupling and Nonpurposeful Drift
Epistemology of Participation
Reality as a Multiverse
Summary
4 Postmodernism and Family Therapy: Postmodernism in Historical Perspective Constructivism and Social Constructionism Deconstruction and the Role of Language The Role of the Individual The Debates
First-Order versus Second-Order Therapy
Postmodernism and Cybernetics
Self-Referential Inconsistencies and Other Challenges The Role of the Family
Summary
5 The Family: Process, Development, and Context
Process Dimensions Developmental Frameworks Contextual Issues Structural Variations
Cultural Variations
Other Diversity Issues
Ecological Considerations
Summary
part II The Practice of Family Therapy
6 Psychodynamic Approaches Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Object Relations Family Therapy Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
7 Natural Systems Theory Murray Bowen Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
8 Experiential Approaches Carl Whitaker Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Walter Kempler Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
9 The Structural Approach
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Structure
Subsystems
Boundaries
The Family Over Time
Structural Maps of the Family
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Goals of Structural Therapy
The Process of Change
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
10 Communication Approaches
Early Researchers
Don D. Jackson
John H. Weakland
Paul Watzlawick
Review of Early Research Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Virginia Satir
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
11 Strategic Approaches and the Milan Influence
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Three Examples Jay Haley
Cloe Madanes
Milan Systemic/Strategic Therapy
Systemic Consistency Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
12 Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Definitions
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Traditional Behavioral Strategies/Interventions
Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies/Interventions
Four Examples Behavioral Parent Training
Behavioral Marital Therapy
Functional Family Therapy
Conjoint Sex Therapy
Systemic Consistency Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
13 Postmodern Approaches
The Reflecting Team: Tom Andersen
Solution-Oriented Therapy: William O'Hanlon
Solution-Focused Therapy: Steve de Shazer
Externalization and Reauthoring Live and Relationships:
Michael White and David Epston
Therapeutic Conversations: Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
part III The Systemic Practitioner
14 Family Assessment History Family Assessment and Classification - General Models
Family Assessment and Classification - Scientific Models
Family Assessment and Classification - Some Concerns
Systemic Analysis/Multidimensional Assessment
15 Therapeutic Intervention/Perturbation A Theory of Change Reframing
Paradoxical Intervention
Problem Formation/Resolution
Stochastic Processes
Perturber versus Change Agent
Meaningful Noise Language and Worldviews
Stability and Change
Information and Perturbation
The Theory of Change, Meaningful Noise, and the Postmodernist Perspective
Ethical Issues
AAMFT Code of Ethics
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
16 Training and supervision
Teaching and Learning the Systemic/Cybernetic Perspective
Supervision: Modalities, Myths, and Realities
Legal and Ethical Issues in Training and Supervision
Supervision from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Perspective
17 research in family therapy
Family Therapy Research in the Logical Positivist Tradition From Efficacy Research to Progress Research
A Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Consideration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Systemic Consistency
The New Physics
Implications for the Social Sciences
Ramifications of a Cybernetic Perspective
18 epistemological challenges: Thinking about our thinking
Mind and Nature/Stories
Conceptual Pathologies
Problems Exist "Out There"
The Map is the Territory
Defining Differences in Isolation
Independence/Autonomy and Unilateral Control
You Can Do Just One Thing
Control is Possible
We Can Just Observe
The Paradox of Being a Systemic Therapist
Continuing Challenges
More on Teaching and Learning the Cybernetic Perspective
In Conclusion
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Part I The Systemic Framework
1 Two Different Worldviews
The Framework of Individual Psychology The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy
Basic Concepts of Systems Theory and Cybernetics
Family Therapy or Relationship Therapy Summary
2 The Historic Perspective
Planting the Seeds: The 1940s
Cybernetics
Development on Interdisciplinary Approaches
Gregory Bateson
Putting Down Roots: The 1950s
Bateson (Continued)
The Double Bind Hypothesis
Nathan Ackerman
Murray Bowen
Carl Whitaker
Theodore Lidz
Lyman Wynne
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
John Elderkin Bell
Christian F. Midelfort
Overview of the 1950s
The Plant Begins to Bud: The 1960s Paradigm Shift
The MRI
Salvador Minuchin
Other Developments
Blossom Time: The 1970s
Psychodynamic Approaches
Natural Systems Theory
Experiential Approaches
Structural Approaches
Communication Approaches
Behavioral Approaches
Gregory Bateson
Connecting and Integrating: The 1980s
Other Voices
The Limits of History
Controversy, Conflict, and Beyond: The 1990s
The Feminist Critique
Family Therapy and Family Medicine
Integration and Metaframeworks
Managed Care
The Twenty-First Century: Continuing Concerns and
Emerging Trends
Summary
3 The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory
A Cybernetic Epistemology Recursion
Feedback
Morphostasis/Morphogenesis
Rules and Boundaries
Openness/Closedness
Entropy/Negentropy
Equifinality/Equipotentiality
Communication and Information Processing
Relationship and Wholeness
Goals and Purposes
Cybernetics of Cybernetics Wholeness and Self-Reference
Openness and Closedness
Autopoiesis
Structural Determinism
Structural Coupling and Nonpurposeful Drift
Epistemology of Participation
Reality as a Multiverse
Summary
4 Postmodernism and Family Therapy: Postmodernism in Historical Perspective Constructivism and Social Constructionism Deconstruction and the Role of Language The Role of the Individual The Debates
First-Order versus Second-Order Therapy
Postmodernism and Cybernetics
Self-Referential Inconsistencies and Other Challenges The Role of the Family
Summary
5 The Family: Process, Development, and Context
Process Dimensions Developmental Frameworks Contextual Issues Structural Variations
Cultural Variations
Other Diversity Issues
Ecological Considerations
Summary
part II The Practice of Family Therapy
6 Psychodynamic Approaches Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Object Relations Family Therapy Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
7 Natural Systems Theory Murray Bowen Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
8 Experiential Approaches Carl Whitaker Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Walter Kempler Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
9 The Structural Approach
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Structure
Subsystems
Boundaries
The Family Over Time
Structural Maps of the Family
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Goals of Structural Therapy
The Process of Change
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
10 Communication Approaches
Early Researchers
Don D. Jackson
John H. Weakland
Paul Watzlawick
Review of Early Research Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
Virginia Satir
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
11 Strategic Approaches and the Milan Influence
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Three Examples Jay Haley
Cloe Madanes
Milan Systemic/Strategic Therapy
Systemic Consistency Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
12 Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches
Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs
Definitions
Theory of Health/Normalcy
Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions
Traditional Behavioral Strategies/Interventions
Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies/Interventions
Four Examples Behavioral Parent Training
Behavioral Marital Therapy
Functional Family Therapy
Conjoint Sex Therapy
Systemic Consistency Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
13 Postmodern Approaches
The Reflecting Team: Tom Andersen
Solution-Oriented Therapy: William O'Hanlon
Solution-Focused Therapy: Steve de Shazer
Externalization and Reauthoring Live and Relationships:
Michael White and David Epston
Therapeutic Conversations: Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian
Systemic Consistency
Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective
part III The Systemic Practitioner
14 Family Assessment History Family Assessment and Classification - General Models
Family Assessment and Classification - Scientific Models
Family Assessment and Classification - Some Concerns
Systemic Analysis/Multidimensional Assessment
15 Therapeutic Intervention/Perturbation A Theory of Change Reframing
Paradoxical Intervention
Problem Formation/Resolution
Stochastic Processes
Perturber versus Change Agent
Meaningful Noise Language and Worldviews
Stability and Change
Information and Perturbation
The Theory of Change, Meaningful Noise, and the Postmodernist Perspective
Ethical Issues
AAMFT Code of Ethics
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics
16 Training and supervision
Teaching and Learning the Systemic/Cybernetic Perspective
Supervision: Modalities, Myths, and Realities
Legal and Ethical Issues in Training and Supervision
Supervision from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Perspective
17 research in family therapy
Family Therapy Research in the Logical Positivist Tradition From Efficacy Research to Progress Research
A Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Consideration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Systemic Consistency
The New Physics
Implications for the Social Sciences
Ramifications of a Cybernetic Perspective
18 epistemological challenges: Thinking about our thinking
Mind and Nature/Stories
Conceptual Pathologies
Problems Exist "Out There"
The Map is the Territory
Defining Differences in Isolation
Independence/Autonomy and Unilateral Control
You Can Do Just One Thing
Control is Possible
We Can Just Observe
The Paradox of Being a Systemic Therapist
Continuing Challenges
More on Teaching and Learning the Cybernetic Perspective
In Conclusion
References
Name Index
Subject Index