Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying--A Humanistic Perspective - Brossura

Kramer-moore, Daniela; Moore, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0470667001 ISBN 13: 9780470667002

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members.

• Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
• Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
• Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
• Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

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Informazioni sull?autore

Daniela Kramer-Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. A family therapist with many years' experience of working with high risk adolescents and their families, she now heads the post-graduate Psychotherapy Centre at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel, where she previously led the Masters program in Educational Counselling.

Michael Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. He is a social psychologist with many scholarly publications in the field, and was until recently Head of the Department of Education in Technology and Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

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Each family has unique communication habits, yet beneath surface differences common communication patterns arise. Many patterns are healthy, promoting communication that is honest, authentic and tactful. Sometimes, however, habitual responses can develop: ‘myths' that become entrenched in the language of an individual family. These Family Defence Mechanisms (FDMs) block healthy communication, instead raising barriers and creating distance. With time pressures at an all-time high and family members spending less time interacting with each other than ever, snippets of homespun wisdom--"it's better not to talk about it;" "better the devil you know"-- become dangerously easy to present as fact.

Combining humanist and existentialist perspectives in a new understanding of family dynamics, Destructive Myths in Family Therapy exposes a range of common FDMs, exploring how they can become ingrained negative part of family culture and suggesting strategies for overcoming them. The healthy strategies and group activities in Destructive Myths in Family Therapy engage families in better interaction, helping therapists be better equipped to help clients ‘see' the barriers they unconsciously place in the way of change, ‘say' things that facilitate resolution rather than resistance, and establish authentic, direct communication within their family unit.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0470667001
• ISBN 13: 9780470667002
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 197
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile