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Author(s): Jay L. Lebow
ISBN(s): 9780471737162, 047173716X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.86 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 047173716X 
ISBN 13: 9780471737162
Author: Jay L Lebow

The latest theory, research, and practice information for family therapy The last twenty years have seen an explosion of new, innovative, and empirically supported therapeutic approaches for treating families. Mental health professionals working with families today apply a wide range of approaches to a variety of situations and clients using techniques based on their clinically and empirically proven effectiveness, their focus on specific individual and relational disorders, their applicability in various contexts, and their prominence in the field. In this accessible and comprehensive text, each chapter covers specific problems, the theoretical and practical elements of the treatment approach, recommended intervention strategies, special considerations, supporting research, and clinical examples. The contributors provide step-by-step guidelines for implementing the approaches described and discuss particular issues that arise in different couple, family, and cultural contexts. Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy covers treatment strategies for the most common problems encountered in family therapy, including: Domestic violence Adolescent defiance, anxiety, and depression Trauma-induced problems Stepfamily conflicts ADHD disruption Substance abuse in adults and adolescents Couple conflict and divorce Chronic illness A detailed reference for today’s best treatment strategies, the Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy brings together the top practitioners and scholars to produce an innovative and user-friendly guide for clinicians and students alike.

Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: family therapy at the beginning of the twenty-first century

  • systemic focus

  • biobehavioral-psychosocial foundation

  • applying generic strategies of change

  • accenting broad curative factors

  • shaping strategies relative to specific difficulties

  • labeling problems

  • building on empirical foundations

  • maintaining a multisystemic focus

  • maintaining a realistic frame

  • enhancing the durability of change

  • length of treatment

  • stages of change

  • mixing individual, couple, and family session formats

  • a more limited worldview

  • conclusion: toward one family therapy

  • references

Part I: problems in children and adolescents

Chapter 2: attachment-based family therapy for depressed and anxious adolescents

  • the theoretical base

  • attachment theory

  • repairing attachment

  • clinical foundation

  • clinical structure of ABFT

  • the clinical model

  • task one: relational reframing

  • task two: building alliance with the adolescent

  • task three: building parent alliance

  • task four: the attachment task

  • task five: promoting competency

  • empirical support

  • ABFT for anxious adolescents (ABFT-A)

  • low income, minority patients

  • references

Chapter 3: family therapy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

  • ADHD as a family illness

  • family interactions and dysfunction

  • associated problems in the ADHD family

  • ADHD and family structure

  • ADHD: gender and ethnicity considerations

  • treatment of ADHD as a family illness

  • family intervention

  • possible components of family intervention for ADHD

  • conclusions

  • references

Chapter 4: brief strategic family therapy for adolescents with behavior problems

  • behavioral problems in adolescence

  • problem definition and clinical characteristics

  • family characteristics

  • overview of BSFT

  • theoretical background

  • clinical intervention strategies for adolescents with behavioral problems

  • establishment of a therapeutic relationship—joining

  • diagnostic assessment of the family

  • treatment goals: restructuring

  • termination of treatment

  • special consideration in treatment

  • engagement of hard-to-reach families

  • working with individual family members: one person BSFT

  • research evidence

  • marijuana

  • engagement and retention

  • externalizing behaviors

  • family interactions

  • recommended readings

  • references

Chapter 5: multisystemic therapy for adolescents with serious externalizing problems

  • theoretical and conceptual foundations

  • theory of social ecology

  • pragmatic family therapies

  • empirical support

  • implementing MST

  • MST treatment principles and process

  • implications of principles and process for MST intervention strategies

  • special considerations in the treatment of serious problems in youth

  • home-based model of service delivery

  • quality assurance and improvement system

  • implications for clinicians

  • references

Chapter 6: multidimensional family therapy: a science-based treatment for adolescent drug abuse

  • background and overview

  • adolescent substance abuse: how characteristics of the clinical problem suggest the needed clinical response

  • operating principles of MDFT

  • methods of assessment and intervention in multidimensional family therapy

  • multidimensional assessment

  • multidimensional interventions: facilitating adolescent, parent, and family development

  • specific intervention strategies for treating adolescent substance abuse within the MDFT framework

  • MDFT interventions

    • stage 1

    • stage 2 and 3: work the themes/request change

    • stage 3: all modules. seal the changes. exit

  • clinical guidelines

  • special considerations in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse

  • the use of drug screens in MDFT

  • decision-making for individual or joint sessions

  • therapist assistant duties

  • research evidence supporting the effectiveness of MDFT

    • randomized controlled trials

    • studies on the therapeutic process and mechanisms of change in MDFT

    • economic analyses

    • transportation or technology transfer studies

  • MDFT interventions

  • summary

  • references

Chapter 7: functional family therapy for externalizing disorders in adolescents

  • the evolution of functional family therapy

  • the functional family therapy treatment model

  • a systematic, intentional, and phasic change map

  • core principles of therapeutic change

  • respect and strength-based belief in people

  • scientific foundations of functional family therapy

  • conclusion

  • references

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