The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families
1st Edition
By Jim Wilson
December 31, 2007
This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions....
Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks
1st Edition
By Jaakko Seikkula, Tom Erik Arnkil
December 31, 2006
This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations such as multi-agency muddles where the helper systems are stuck. The book is both theoretical and ...
Intellectual Disabilities: A Systemic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Baum, Henrik Lynggaard
December 31, 2006
The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their service systems, has grown over the last decade in the UK. This book, for the first time, brings together the writings of a group of practitioners who have been using ...
The Space Between: Experience, Context, and Process in the Therapeutic Relationship
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmel Flaskas, Barry Mason, Amaryll Perlesz
December 31, 2005
The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk taking, the place of research, and the influence of theory. Clinical examples illustrate successful as ...
Self in Relationships: Perspectives on Family Therapy from Developmental Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Astri Johnsen, Rolf Sundet, Vigdis Wie Torsteinsson
December 31, 2003
Inspired by Daniel Stern's work on self-development, the authors suggest that by combining systemic therapy with a psychoanalytical aspect, family therapy can reach new depths. They argue that this will enrich our understanding of the relationships beween parents and children, and between siblings....
Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks and Dilemmas in Working Cross-Culturally
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Mason, Alice Sawyer
December 31, 2002
The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural theory and practice. In confronting directly and honestly a broad range of cross-cultural issues they have succeeded in formulating a thoughtful and ...
Perspectives on Supervision
1st Edition
Edited
By David Campbell, Barry Mason
December 31, 2002
This reader-friendly and stimulating volume, indispensable to anyone interested in supervision from a systemic perspective, emerged from a conference organised jointly by the Institute of Family Therapy and the Tavistock Clinic in London. It is focused on developments within supervisions and ...
Culture and System in Family Therapy
1st Edition
By Inga-Britt Krause
December 31, 2001
Starting with the MacPherson Report and its pronouncements on racism in Britain and in particular 'institutionalised racism', Dr Krause focuses in this important book on the practice of family therapy and draws on her expertise as both anthropologist and systemic family psychotherapist to formulate...
Multiple Family Therapy: The Marlborough Model and Its Wider Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Eia Asen, Neil Dawson, Brenda McHugh
December 31, 2001
If a troubled family contains the resources to solve its own problems, then why not bring such families together, to share their experiences and support each other?This is the approach of the Marlborough Family Service, the institution at the forefront of development for child-protection cases, ...
Systemic Couple Therapy and Depression
1st Edition
By Eia Asen, Elsa Jones
December 31, 2000
Based on a research project which demonstrated the effectiveness of systemic therapy, this book can be used as the basis of a training programme in systemic couple therapy, as a phase in the treatment of depression. It describes in explicit detail the range of techniques used and can therefore also...
Bridging the Gap: A Training Module in Personal and Professional Development
1st Edition
By Judy Hildebrand
December 31, 1998
The book opens a very important debate for the family therapy field. At a ie of treatment rationing and standard setting, it aptly draws our attention to an issue of increasing importance: training the highest-quality family therapists. In addition, it offers trainers and supervisors an invaluable ...
Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach
1st Edition
By Jim Wilson
December 31, 1998
The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains them in the context of how he works with children....