Becoming a marriage and family therapist : from classroom to consulting room / / D. Eugene Mead

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822763903321
• Autore: Mead D. Eugene (Donald Eugene), <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013
• ISBN: 1118323408; 9781118323403
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 294 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 616.89/1560023
• Soggetti: Family psychotherapy - Practice; Psychotherapy - Vocational guidance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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 Therapy -- Evidence-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 responding -- Person 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 prevalence -- Family 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 notes -- Session 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 -- Supporting reasons for conjoint therapy -- Supplemental motivation for attending conjoint therapy -- Some pros and cons for attending conjoint family therapy -- Exceptions to recommending conjoint therapy -- Clarifying clinic procedures -- Providing directions to the clinic -- Closing the initial phone interview -- Reconfirming sessions -- Summary -- Therapy Task 1: Assessment -- Introduction -- The first assessment hour -- Assessment session: Second hour -- What Should you Take Away fromChapter 3? -- Chapter 4 Establishing a Treatment Plan and Delivering the Planned Treatment -- Introduction -- Therapy Task 2: Establishing a Treatment Plan.; The Feedback Session -- Therapy Task 3: Delivering the Planned Treatment -- Treatment manuals -- Tailoring the treatment to your clients' needs -- Some general procedures to carry out planned treatment -- What Should You Take Away fromChapter 4? -- Chapter 5 Evaluating Adherence to the Treatment Plan and Evaluating Treatment Outcomes -- Introduction -- Therapy Task 3: Evaluating Adherence to the Planned Treatment -- Determining adherence to the treatment protocol -- Assessing treatment fidelity -- Evaluating the Clients' Treatment Outcomes -- Interpreting patterns in combined sets of couple outcome charted scores -- Session Rating Scale: Administering, scoring, and interpreting -- Establishing the agenda for the session -- The Family Therapy Decision Tree -- Treatment fidelity -- Motivation to Change -- Social Support for Coping With Life Stress -- Alternative Diagnoses and Treatments -- What You Should Take Away fromChapter 5 -- Chapter 6 Terminating Therapy -- Introduction -- Defining Termination -- Therapy models and termination -- Issues related to early termination -- Issues concerned with who initiates termination -- Client-initiated terminations -- Therapist-initiated terminations -- Mutually agreed upon terminations -- Fitting Termination Processes to the Needs of the Clients -- Recognizing clients' readiness to terminate therapy -- Review of Your Clients' Gains in Therapy and Practicing for a Relapse -- Dealing with dependency and separation anxiety at termination of therapy -- Leaving the door open for clients to return to ; therapy as needed -- The Written Treatment Summary -- What Should You Take Away fromChapter 6? -- Part II Protocols for Selected Models of Marriage and Family Therapy : Delivering Evidence-Based Treatments -- Chapter 7 Protocol for Conducting Gottman Method Couple Therapy -- Introduction -- Theory and Research.; Preparation to practice Gottman Method Couples Therapy -- The Gottman Method Couples Therapy Treatment Protocol -- The interventions which are unique to Gottman Method Couples Therapy -- Some Gottman Method interventions that are common with other models -- Interventions which are proscribed as harmful or unsafe in Gottman Method Couples Therapy -- Initial phone contact -- Crisis management -- The Sessions -- Session 1: Initial interview -- Session 2: Commitment to the marriage -- Session 3: The treatment plan -- Session 4: Marital friendship -- Session 5: Increasing marital fondness and admiration -- Session 6: Increasing marital fondness and admiration -- Session 6B: Stress reducing conversations -- Session 6C: Communicating needs and learning to turn towards each other -- Session 6D: "Learning to sooth themselves and each other." -- Session 7: Solving solvable problems -- Session 7A: Soft startups -- Session 7B: Repair and de-escalation -- Session 7C: Learning to accept influence and to compromise -- Session 7D: Learning to recognize flooding and to self-sooth -- Session 8: Establishing a dialogue about perpetual problems -- Session 8B: Helping couples explore their dreams within a conflict area -- Session 8C: Honoring each other's dreams -- Session 8D: Helping couples overcome their fears about accepting or honoring their partner's dream -- Session 9: Building shared meanings and life dreams -- Session 9B: Shared meanings interview approach to building shared meaning in family rituals -- Session 10: Preparing for possible relapses -- Session 11: Terminating Gottman Method Couple Therapy -- Epilogue -- Chapter 8 Protocol for Conducting Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Couples -- Introduction -- Theory and Research -- Research -- Preparation to practice Emotionally-Focused Therapy -- Protocol for Emotionally-Focused Therapy for Couples.; The interventions that are unique to Emotionally-Focused Therapy for couples -- Some Emotionally-Focused Therapy interventions that are common with other models -- What interventions are proscribed as harmful or unsafe in Emotionally-Focused Therapy? -- Initial phone contact -- Crisis management -- The Sessions -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Session 4 -- Session 5 -- Session 6A -- Session 6B -- Session 7 -- Session 8 -- Session 9 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix A Person of the Therapist Checklist -- Appendix B Therapist Self-Soothing Procedures -- Appendix C Standard Assessment Battery for Marital Relational Problems -- Appendix D Written Case Progress Notes -- Appendix E Observations of the Couples' Communication and Problem-solving Behaviors Therapist's Rating Form Based on Gottman (1999) -- Appendix F Clinical Experience Log -- Appendix G Preparing a Written Treatment Plan -- Appendix H Written Treatment Summary -- Appendix I Therapy Tailoring Skills Rating Form -- Appendix J Homework Success: Therapist Guidelines -- Appendix K Preparation for Supervision Checklist: Couples -- References -- Index.
• 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 author Presents treatment protocols that show how to apply therapy task guidelines to a range of empirically-supported marriage and family treatments Provides extended coverage on assessing and beginning treatment with crisis areas such as suicidal ideation, and family violence with children, elders, and spouses Suggests how supervisors can support trainees in dealing with crisis and other challenging areas, to build competence and successful delivery.