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Dallos, Rudi and Draper, Ros. An Introduction to Family Therapy: Systemic Theory and Practice, 4th Edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2015.

An Introduction to Family Therapy: Systemic Theory and Practice, 4th Edition

Authors: Rudi Dallos and Ros Draper

Published:  September 2015 Pages: 536

eISBN: 9780335264551 | ISBN: 9780335264544
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  • List of figures and tables
  • About the authors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction 1
  • Experiences of systemic and family therapy
  • A family’s view
  • Two therapists’ views
  • What is the ‘family’?
  • The family life cycle
  • Allowing the family a voice
  • The organizing framework of this book
  • Key texts offering a historical overview of systemic and family therapy
  • Setting the scene – 1950s 15
  • 1 The first phase – 1950s to mid-1970s
  • Cultural landscape
  • Influential people and ideas
  • Seeds of systemic and family therapy
  • Systemic thinking – from intrapsychic to interpersonal
  • Systems theory – biological analogy
  • Emergent properties of a system
  • Circularities
  • Triads, triangulation, and conflict detouring
  • Rules, pattern, and process
  • Feedback
  • Family coordination through communication
  • Double-bind concept
  • Meta-communication
  • Open and closed systems
  • Family homeostasis
  • Family life cycle
  • Practice
  • Structural family therapy
  • Beliefs and structures
  • Therapeutic orientations
  • Directive stance
  • Strategic family therapy
  • Beliefs and premises
  • Strategic tasks
  • Commentary
  • Gender and shifting inequalities of power
  • Normative assumptions of life-cycle models
  • Key texts
  • Family sculpting
  • Family tree and time line
  • Reframing
  • 2 The second phase – mid-1970s to mid-1980s
  • Cultural landscape
  • Influential people and ideas
  • Second-order cybernetics
  • Meta-communication
  • Communication
  • The person as private ‘biosphere’
  • Intention
  • Beliefs and actions in triads
  • Observing systems
  • Practice
  • Hypothesizing
  • Reframing
  • Co-construction of shared histories
  • Commentary
  • Moral and political implications
  • Power
  • Milan approach
  • Positive connotation
  • Key texts
  • Skill guides
  • Teamwork
  • Hypothesizing
  • Positive connotation
  • Circular questioning
  • Transformational change
  • 3 The third phase – mid-1980s to 2000
  • Cultural landscape
  • Theoretical perspectives
  • Connections and links to the first and second phases of systemic family therapy 92
  • Influential people and ideas
  • View of the person – construction of experience
  • Practice
  • Brief solution-focused therapy
  • Reflecting teams
  • Narrative therapies
  • Externalizing problems
  • Writing
  • Feminist therapies
  • Power and the construction of reality
  • Culturally available stories
  • Commentary – feminist orientations
  • Key texts
  • Skill guides
  • Consultation
  • Externalizing the problem
  • Collaborative inquiry
  • Reflecting processes
  • Relevance and usefulness
  • 4 Emotions and attachments as the driving force in family systems
  • Emotions and early family therapy concepts
  • Triangulation
  • The double-bind
  • Attachment theory
  • Attachment as a fundamental instinct
  • Attachment strategies
  • Internal working models and representational systems
  • Choice and autonomy: corrective scripts and representational systems Attachment and trauma
  • Family life cycle and attachments
  • Attachments: from dyads to triads
  • Attachment-oriented systemic therapies
  • Circle of Security intervention
  • Attachment-based family therapy
  • Attachment narrative therapy
  • Reflections and summary
  • Key texts
  • 5 Systemic formulation and formulating
  • Systemic theory: formulation and formulating
  • The first phase
  • The second phase – progressive hypothesizing
  • The third phase
  • A case example of systemic formulation
  • Genograms
  • Deconstructing the problem
  • Contextual factors
  • Beliefs and explanations
  • Problem-maintaining patterns and feedback loops
  • Emotions and attachments
  • Synthesis
  • Formulations: Mary and Janet
  • Formulating
  • Commentary
  • Key texts
  • Skill guide
  • Systemic formulation
  • 6 Twenty-first century practice development: conversations across the boundaries of models 168
  • Cultural landscape
  • Practice
  • Working with addictions
  • Working with post-divorce processes and contact disputes
  • Work in forensic contexts
  • Working with eating disorders using an attachment narrative therapy (ANT) approach
  • Psychosis and multiple family group therapy (MFGT)
  • Cognitive behavioural family therapy (CBFT): conduct disorders
  • Commentary
  • Formulation
  • Contexts
  • Patterns and processes
  • Multiple models
  • Key texts
  • 7 Couple therapy
  • Culture, family and couples contexts
  • Coordinated management of meaning
  • The family and couple systems
  • Cultural contexts
  • Divorce and mediation
  • Approaches to couple therapy
  • Integrative therapy – the politics of passion
  • Emotionally focused couple therapy
  • The Gottman method
  • Influential people, ideas, and services
  • Twenty-first century practice and service developments
  • Commentary
  • Key texts
  • 8 Research and evaluation
  • Introduction
  • Why conduct research?
  • Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Practice-based evidence
  • Science, research, and systemic therapy
  • Varieties of research
  • Evaluation research: does family therapy work?
  • Meta-analysis
  • Group comparison evaluative studies
  • Evaluative case studies
  • Observational studies
  • Questionnaire and self-report studies
  • Therapy process research
  • A therapeutic process study
  • In-depth single case process study
  • Exploring the experience of family therapy
  • Family theory research
  • A participant observational study
  • Interview studies
  • A conjoint interview study
  • Case study series
  • Discussion and reflections
  • Key texts
  • Varieties of research
  • Family therapy outcome studies
  • 9 Reflections 2015
  • Current state of the art
  • Crystal-ball gazing
  • Developmental perspectives
  • Review and summary
  • Integrations
  • Postscripts
  • Topic reading lists
  • Formats for exploration
  • Glossary of terms
  • British texts
  • References