Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy

Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy
ISBN-10
0876304242
ISBN-13
9780876304242
Category
Divorce therapy
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
1986
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Robert Sherman, Norman Fredman

Description

" ... Makes available an extraordinary range of alternative methods to assist clients to change their behavior and to modify the organization of the family system ... structured techniques have been divided into six major categories: 1. Fantasy and imagery; 2. Sociometrics; 3. Structural moves; 4. Behavioral tasks; 5. Paradox; 6. Alternative models. Each category is preceded by an informative theoretical introduction reviewing the thinking behind the techniques ... most [approaches] go beyond interview-type talk and involve some form of therapeutic action ... For each ... technique the authors provide a succinct theoretical rationale, a set of procedures, a clinical case example, and recources for additional information ..."--Inside flap.

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