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Thematic review of Family Therapy Journals 2012: Review of Family Therapy Journals 2012
Journal of Family Therapy, 2013Co-Authors: Alan CarrAbstract:In this article the contents of the principal English-‐language Family Therapy journals, and key\ud Family Therapy articles published in other journals in 2012 are reviewed under these headings:\ud Therapy\ud processes\ud in the treatment of child-‐focused problems, autism, adolescent substance use, human immunodeficiency virus, depression and grief, fragile families, mental health recovery, medical \ud Family Therapy, Family business and systemic practice, couple Therapy, intimate partner violence,\ud key issues in theory and practice, research, diversity, international perspectives, interviews, and\ud deaths
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Development of Family Therapy in Ireland
Contemporary Family Therapy, 2013Co-Authors: Alan CarrAbstract:In Ireland Family Therapy is a small profession, with under 200 registered therapists. The Irish Family Therapy movement began in the mid-1970s. By 1980 the Family Therapy Network of Ireland in the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Branch of the UK Association Family Therapy had been founded. At present there are three main Family Therapy training centers in Ireland: two in the south (the Mater University Hospital, affiliated to University College Dublin and Clanwilliam Institute) and one in the north (at Queen’s University Belfast). There is no statutory registration and licensing of Family therapists in Ireland. Accredited professional Family Therapy programs in Ireland are 4-year part-time courses culminating in masters level qualifications. A primary degree in medicine, nursing, psychology, social science or education is a prerequisite for entry. Family therapists in Ireland work in both private practice and the public health service. Most Family therapists in the public sector are employed as social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists or nurses, and conduct Family Therapy as part of their broader professional roles. Couple Therapy in Ireland is provided by Family therapists, and also by voluntary couple counselors based in networks of local centers, some of which were originally religiously affiliated, without a formal connection to national Family Therapy associations. The three major future challenges for Irish Family Therapy are creating a research infrastructure, developing a career structure in the public health service, and introducing statutory registration.
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Thematic review of Family Therapy journals 2011: Review of Family Therapy journals 2011
Journal of Family Therapy, 2012Co-Authors: Alan CarrAbstract:In 2011 many developments in a range of areas were covered in the Family Therapy journals. Some important Family\ud Therapy articles were also published in clinical psychology and psychiatry journals. In this review, reference will be made\ud to particularly significant articles and also to less significant but representative articles in the areas of child-focused\ud problems, adult-focused problems, couples Therapy, medical Family Therapy, military Family Therapy, theory, research, and\ud training. Reference will also be made to the new Journal of Couple and Family Psychology and Human Systems twentyfirst\ud anniversary special issue
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Ten Research Questions for Family Therapy
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2010Co-Authors: Alan CarrAbstract:A growing evidence-base shows that Family Therapy works, but many gaps in our knowledge remain about the conditions under which Family Therapy is effective and how it works. In this paper, ten critical research questions about Family Therapy that need to be addressed are considered. In short these are: 1. Is Family Therapy as effective in community settings as it is in specialist clinics? 2. For what problems is Family Therapy cost-effective? 3. Does Family Therapy work for under-researched problems and populations? 4. Do social-constructionist and narrative approaches to Family Therapy work? 5. Can Family Therapy protocols be enhanced for non-responders? 6. Can Family Therapy be combined with other psychotherapies to effectively treat specific problems? 7. Can Family Therapy be combined with pharmacoTherapy to effectively treat specific problems? 8. What specific factors contribute to the effectiveness of Family Therapy with particular problems? 9. What common factors contribute to the effectiveness of Family Therapy? 10. What therapist and client factors contribute to the effectiveness of Family Therapy?
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Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice
2000Co-Authors: Alan CarrAbstract:About the Author. Foreword (Alan S. Gurman). Preface. Acknowledgements. Endorsements of the fi rst edition. PART I: CENTRAL CONCEPTS IN Family Therapy. Chapter 1: Goals of Family Therapy. Chapter 2: Origins of Family Therapy. Chapter 3: Theories that Focus on Behaviour Patterns. Chapter 4: Theories that Focus on Belief Systems. Chapter 5: Theories that Focus on Contexts. Chapter 6: Integrative Models. PART II: PROCESSES IN Family Therapy. Chapter 7: The Stages of Family Therapy. Chapter 8: Formulating Problems and Exceptions. Chapter 9: Interventions for Behaviour, Beliefs and Contexts. PART III: Family Therapy PRACTICE WITH CHILD- AND ADOLESCENT-FOCUSED PROBLEMS. Chapter 10: Physical Child Abuse. Chapter 11: Sexual Abuse. Chapter 12: Conduct Problems. Chapter 13: Drug Abuse in Adolescence. PART IV: Family Therapy PRACTICE WITH ADULT-FOCUSED PROBLEMS. Chapter 14: Distressed Couples. Chapter 15: Depression and Anxiety. Chapter 16: Alcohol Problems in Adulthood. Chapter 17: Schizophrenia. PART V: RESEARCH AND RESOURCES. Chapter 18: Evidence-based Practice in Marital and Family Therapy. Chapter 19: Professional Resources. References. Index.
Thorana S. Nelson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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BASIC Family Therapy SKILLS, IV: TRANSGENERATIONAL THEORIES OF Family Therapy
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1993Co-Authors: Thorana S. Nelson, Gabriella Heilbrun, Charles R. FegleyAbstract:This pape focuses on the basic skills and compentencies of transgenerational approaches to Family Therapy, the fourth report of a program of research surveys by the Basic Family Therapy Skills Project. In the first survey, a panel of Family Therapy educators listed the most critical or basic skills or compentencies of beginning Family therapist with a transgenerational orientation. In the third survey, self-selected respondents rated these items according to degree of importance for beginning Family therapists. Rankings of the items according to mean scores of the Likert responses indicate that transgenerational Family Therapy skills are founded in theory and can be identified behaviorally. The most important skills are those that use the self of the therapist to understand and utilize transgenerational Family Therapy skills for both therapist and client. Also listed are skills that many raters deemed “generic” rather than specifically related to transgenerational Family Therapy. Other findings and their implications for the future training of Family therapists are discusses. Although the paper is intended for Family Therapy educators interested in their colleagues' ideas about critical skills in trans-generational Family Therapy, theorists and clinicians may also find it useful.
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Gender in Family Therapy supervision
Contemporary Family Therapy, 1991Co-Authors: Thorana S. NelsonAbstract:While gender has taken its place as a fundamental construct in Family Therapy theory, little has been written about gender in Family Therapy supervision. This paper attempts to redefine gender as it pertains to families, Family Therapy, and Family Therapy supervision; call attention to aspects of gender as they apply to training in Family Therapy and Family Therapy supervision; and suggest ways that Family Therapy supervisors can sensitize themselves to issues of gender so that they can be more effective in supervision.
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Basic Family Therapy Skills, II: Structural Family Therapy.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1990Co-Authors: Charles R. Figley, Thorana S. NelsonAbstract:The Basic Family Therapy Skills Project has yielded empirically derived skills important for beginning Family therapists. This article reports the results of ratings from the 103-member panel of experts who practice and teach Structural Family Therapy. A total of 100 competencies of Structural Family Therapy were rated in terms of importance on a 5-point Likert scale by the panel. Panelists were also given alternative responses such as “appropriate as a generic skill,”“inappropriate for beginning therapists,” and “don't understand what this means.” Rationale for the approach and results are discussed in terms of the importance of empirically based competencies for the practice of Structural Family Therapy.
William C. Nichols - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrative Family Therapy
Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2001Co-Authors: William C. NicholsAbstract:This paper describes an integrative approach to marital and Family Therapy in which psychodynamic (particularly object relations), Family systems, and behavioral (particularly cognitive–behavioral) theory are blended in a flexible and tailored therapeutic approach. Human personality in its most significant contexts is a consistent focus. Background factors in the development to the approach and illustrative case materials are included.
Charles R. Figley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Family Therapy research: Comment on “research as a Family Therapy intervention technique”
Contemporary Family Therapy, 1990Co-Authors: Charles R. FigleyAbstract:Wright's emphasis on and illustration of the use of Family Therapy research as a unique intervention technique for Therapy is an important contribution to the practice literature. Equally important, however, is the isomorphic shift in focus of the Family Therapy researcher. Rather than focusing only on process or outcome research, Family therapists should become more interested in their clients as research subjects. Though rarely discussed in the Family Therapy literature, the competencies of Family therapists as researchers and the utility of research in a Family Therapy context is critical to being a well-rounded professional. Examples are provided of how this emphasis is being introduced in a PhD Family Therapy program.
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Basic Family Therapy Skills, II: Structural Family Therapy.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1990Co-Authors: Charles R. Figley, Thorana S. NelsonAbstract:The Basic Family Therapy Skills Project has yielded empirically derived skills important for beginning Family therapists. This article reports the results of ratings from the 103-member panel of experts who practice and teach Structural Family Therapy. A total of 100 competencies of Structural Family Therapy were rated in terms of importance on a 5-point Likert scale by the panel. Panelists were also given alternative responses such as “appropriate as a generic skill,”“inappropriate for beginning therapists,” and “don't understand what this means.” Rationale for the approach and results are discussed in terms of the importance of empirically based competencies for the practice of Structural Family Therapy.
Clare Huffington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Teaching Family Therapy
2018Co-Authors: Ros Draper, Myrna Gower, David Campbell, Clare HuffingtonAbstract:The teaching of Family Therapy has been the subject of serious scrutiny since the onset of training and accreditation many years ago, yet there are relatively few attempts to apply what we know about systems and the ways they change Family Therapy teaching as a two-way process. It is as though Family Therapy teachers were preoccupied with the content of what should be taught, and were not able to direct their attention to the process by which people learned.The authors began by describing the way they conceptualize the "learning context" which sets the frame for all the teaching they do. Then they discuss the process of setting up a Family Therapy course, e.g. "What is the best way to negotiate with a training officer to set up a course in a local area?". The book then moves to creating the course syllabus, and some of the practical problems-from lateness to mechanical failures-of getting the course off the ground.The Family Therapy courses being described are generic courses which cover all the major schools of thought from Structuralist to Strategic to systemic to Constructivist approaches. The unique contribution of this book is the many carefully crafted exercises which form the heart of the teaching/learning experience. Each exercise is designed to teach particular content, such as "enactment", or "circular questioning", which is related to a particular Family Therapy approach, yet the exercise is also designed with the learning context in mind and it pays attention to the ongoing relationship between teacher and student to maximize the learning which can take place.
