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Collaborative Therapy With Multi Stressed Families (Revised 2nd Edition)Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionThis volume describes an innovative approach to working with families who have not been well served by traditional mental health, social service, and medical systems. Critically examining many professional assumptions about 'difficult' families, the book outlines clinical practices that facilitate a respectful, constructive, and effective therapeutic relationship. Reviews'Once in a long while is a book written with the power and potential to influence clinical practice in profound and positive ways... Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families is such a contribution ... Madsen proposes a framework for assessment that meets the needs of managed care by being goal-directed and outcome-oriented while maintaining a collaborative and resource-based stance ..Highly recommended for family therapy courses as well as for therapists in community agencies.' --- Journal of Systemic Therapies Author descriptionWilliam C. Madsen, PhD, Family Institute of Cambridge, Watertown, MA, USA Table of contentsCONTENTS Introduction 1. Working with MultiStressed Families: From Technique to Attitude 2. What We See Is What We Get: Reexamining Our Assessment Process 3. Collaboration Is a Two-Way Street: Engaging Reluctant Families 4. Envisioning New Futures: Developing Collaborative Therapy Contracts with Families 5. Invitational Interaction: An Anthropological Approach to 'Intervening' with Families 6. Helping Clients Take Apart Old Problems and Put Together New Lives 7. Elaborating and Solidifying New Lives 8. Developing Communities to Support New Lives 9. The Larger Helping System as an Appreciative Audience for New Lives 10. Envisioning New Futures, Revisioning Human Services |