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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463141403321

Autore

Mead Eugene

Titolo

Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist [[electronic resource] ] : From Classroom to Consulting Room

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2012

ISBN

1-299-15873-0

0-470-51587-2

1-118-32340-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/1560023

616.89156

616.891560023

Soggetti

Family psychotherapy - Practice

Family psychotherapy -- Practice

Psychotherapy - Vocational guidance

Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance

Psychology, Industrial

Psychotherapy, Group

Psychology, Educational

Socioenvironmental Therapy

Psychology, Applied

Psychological Phenomena and Processes

Psychotherapy

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Psychiatry and Psychology

Marital Therapy

Vocational Guidance

Family Therapy

Psychiatry

Health & Biological Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; About the Author; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I; Chapter 1 Becoming a Competent Marriage and Family Therapist; Introduction; The Role of Common Factors in Therapy Outcomes; Common factors contributions to successful client outcomes; The Therapeutic Alliance; The probable causes of split alliances; Detecting rifts in the alliance; Learning to detect split alliances; Interventions to repair ruptured alliances; Summary: Establishing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance

Marriage and Family Theories and Evidence-Based Marital and Family TherapyEvidence-based models as an alternative to theory-based models; What evidence-based therapies are available to marriage and family therapists?; Selecting an Evidence-Based Model for Marriage and Family Therapy Interns; Some criteria for selecting an evidence-based therapy model; In summary; PracticingWithin Your Competence; The Remainder of the Book; What Should You Take Away fromChapter 1?; Chapter 2 Basic Therapist Skills; Introduction; The Therapist's Contribution to the Therapy Relationship

Empathic listening and respondingPerson of the therapist variables; Dealing with stress as a therapist; Learning to observe your client's clinically relevant behavior; Crisis Management of Suicidal Ideation and Family Violence; Guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention; Suicide risk assessment; Using a semi-structured interview to assess suicide risk; Classifying the risk of suicide; Intervening with clients experiencing suicidal ideation and intention; Guidelines for Family Violence Risk Assessment: Partner-to-partner, Adult-to-Child, and Elder Maltreatment

Family violence prevalenceFamily violence definitions; Adult-to-child maltreatment; Partner-to-partner maltreatment; Elder maltreatment; Convergence of family violence domains; Additional factors which set family violence off from other forms of violence; Risk factors for family violence; Risk factors for elder mistreatment; Co-occurrence of risk factors for the three domains of family conflict; Screening and assessing for family violence; Using self-report instruments to assess for the occurrence of family violence; Intervening with clients experiencing family violence; Case Progress Notes

Structuring case progress notesSession information; Session summary; Observations; Conceptualizations; Interventions; Missing information; Assignments and future plans; What Should You Take Away From Chapter 2?; Chapter 3 The Initial Phone Call and Assessing Clients' Complaints and Goals; Introduction; The Initial Phone Call: A Semi-Structured Interview; Initiating the initial phone contact; Clarifying the clients' problems and goals; Establishing expectations for the assessment session; Setting safety needs; Deciding who should come to the assessment session

Resistance to conjoint marital or family therapy

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist is a practical ""how to"" guide designed to help trainee therapists successfully bridge the gap between classroom and consulting room. Readers will learn how to apply empirically-based methods to the core tasks of therapy in order to improve competency, establish effective supervision, and deliver successful client outcomes.A practical guide to improving competency across the core tasks of therapy, based on over 40 years of observation and teaching by an internationally acclaimed authorPresents treatment protocols t