Clinical epiphanies in marital and family therapy : a practitioner's casebook of therapeutic insights, perceptions, and breakthroughs
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Clinical epiphanies in marital and family therapy : a practitioner's casebook of therapeutic insights, perceptions, and breakthroughs
(Haworth marriage and the family)
Haworth Clinical Practice Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
How would you handle these situations? Check your expertise against the approaches presented here!This fascinating collection shows how a practicing therapist handled clients stuck in the therapeutic process. Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy: A Practitioner's Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs presents a cross-section of approaches and orientations as they work in practice. The families and couples discussed here have experienced a wide range of difficulties, and the presenting and commenting therapists run the gamut in age, gender, race, and theoretical orientation.The serendipitous turning points presented here are all true case studies, but Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy offers more than the chance to second-guess a single therapist's handling of explosive moments. Each case study is also discussed by two other therapists representing divergent points of view. This point-counterpoint structure allows readers to analyze the effectiveness of different therapeutic approaches and to recognize that in practice, heterogeneous orientations may result in similar strategies.Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy demonstrates the factors that contribute to doing successful therapy, including:
ensuring that clients feel they are being treated with respect
establishing a sound therapeutic relationship
making successful treatment bargains
moving away from your therapeutic agenda when necessary
being persistent in the face of a stubborn refusal to changeClinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy offers fresh strategies for experienced practitioners, beginning therapists, and educators in the field of mental health.
Table of Contents
About the Editor
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Case 1. Try Death on for Size
A Therapeutic Hail Mary
The Patience of a Saint
Case 2. Little League: The Feel of Dreams
If You Reframe It, They Will Come
Hit the Next Good Pitch
Case 3. You Might Get What You Wish For
Let's Do Another Study
With Creativity We Engage Them
Case 4. Being There
Seduced by Urgency
Winning the Battle, but Losing the War?
Case 5. Be a Man
A Patient Therapist
Be a Good Person
Case 6. Sentenced to Life or United in Death
United in Therapy or United in Life
Sitting Outside the Therapy Room
Case 7. Fishing for Gender Equity
Matching the Bait with the Catch
Romancing the Gender Lens
Case 8. Seeing Is Believing
Finding One's Voice
Show Me One More Time
Case 9. My Children Are Not Liars
My Children's Good Example
Safety Is Trust in Mother
Case 10. A Young Man and a Penis Called Chipmunk
Sticks and Stones and Names Can Hurt You
Somatizing Sexual Secrets
Case 11. I Have No Problem
Born a Problem?
The Problem Is a Problem
Case 12. I'm Not Ready to Die!
Living with Connection
I'm Not Ready to Talk
Case 13. Visiting All Monsters
Trading Monsters for Dreams
Embracing Monsters
Case 14. Therapist or Firefighter?
Farmer, Naturalist, Environmentalist
Firefighters Need Teamwork
Case 15. Jimmy the Flying Reindeer and the Two Mothers
Where Are the Fathers?
Mediating Solomon's Mothers in the Best Interest of the Child
Case 16. It's All About the Dog
Never Too Old to Learn New Tricks
Wagging the Dog
Index
Reference Notes Included
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