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The Effects of Family Therapies for Adolescent Delinquency and Substance Abuse: A Meta-analysis. - Baldwin SA, Christian S, Berkeljon A, Shadish WR.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:54:53 +0100

This meta-analysis summarizes results from k = 24 studies comparing either Brief Strategic Family Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Multidimensional Family Therapy, or Multisystemic Therapy to either treatment-as-usual, an alternative therapy, or a c... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

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Review of outcome research on marital and family therapy in treatment for alcoholism. - O'Farrell TJ, Clements K.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:54:53 +0100

This review of controlled studies of marital and family therapy (MFT) in alcoholism treatment updates the earlier review by O'Farrell and Fals-Stewart (2003). We conclude that, when the alcoholic is unwilling to seek help, MFT is effective in helping the f... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Adapting multi‐family therapy to families who care for a loved one with an eating disorder in the Czech Republic combined with a follow‐up pilot study of efficacy

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100

We describe the sometimes rocky path of MFT in Czech healthcare and the challenges we encountered in working with this approach in the Czech Republic. Additionally, we discuss the preliminary results of our follow‐up‐pilot study in which we tested the efficacy of our MFT programme on patients' quality of life and self‐esteem. Fifteen patients completed the Rosenberg self‐esteem scale (RSES) and the brief Schwartz outcome scale (SOS‐10) at pre‐treatment and post‐treatment. Our results show a significant improvement of quality of life (F (1, 14) = 13.03, P = 0.003) and a significant reduction of self‐esteem (Z = −2.721 P = 0.07). This pilot study shows divergent results concerning the efficacy of MFT on patients' quality of life and their self‐esteem. (Source: Journal of ...

An introduction to infertility counseling: a guide for mental health and medical professionals

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:09:40 +0100

Abstract The practice of infertility counseling delivered by mental health and medical professionals has become more sophisticated and widespread over the past decade. This paper summarizes information presented at the second campus workshop of the Special Interest Group of Psychology and Counseling of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). This group is dedicated to improving infertility services by creating meaningful connections between mental health and medical professionals. The paper identifies key issues that infertility counselors must consider in their work with couples experiencing infertility. The use of supportive psychosocial interventions and treatments are highlighted. The paper also details the process for choosing the most appro...

Collaboration in Family Therapy

Journal of Clinical Psychology — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:33:29 +0100

This article summarizes and illustrates the collaboration strategies used by several family therapies. The strategies used within multisystemic therapy (MST) are emphasized because it has demonstrated high rates of treatment completion and favorable outcomes in multiple clinical trials. Many of the collaboration strategies in family work are common to other forms of evidence‐based psychotherapy (e.g., reflective listening, empathy, reframing, and displays of authenticity and flexibility); however, some strategies are unique to family systems treatments, such as the identification of strengths across multiple systems in the youth's social ecology and the maintenance of a family (versus a child) focus during treatment. A case example illustrates collaboration and engagement in the context ...

A Special Feature on Collaboration in Psychotherapy

Journal of Clinical Psychology — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:33:23 +0100

This article introduces an issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session designed to describe and illustrate the role of the psychotherapist in facilitating collaboration. Expert practitioners present case examples of collaboration in psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive‐behavioral therapy, experiential therapy, family therapy, mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, multicultural therapy, and in the context of pharmacotherapy. In the final article, a practitioner‐friendly review of empirical research on collaboration is offered. (Source: Journal of Clinical Psychology)

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Glenda Fredman, Eleanor Anderson and Joshua Stott (eds) Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach. London: Karnac, 2010, 300pp., 978‐1‐85575‐582‐6. £21.99.

Journal of Family Therapy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:22:43 +0100

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Reconsidering the ‘heresy’ of using treatment manuals

Journal of Family Therapy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:22:41 +0100

This article argues that paradoxically, this heresy has a lot to offer the practice of family therapy. Research is the best way to answer questions like ‘how does family therapy work?’ ‘What makes ‘good therapy’ good?’ ‘Do therapists do what they say they do'? This article recommends an alternative framework for integrating ESTs into practice by proposing empirically informed guides to practice which, being less formulaic, encourage process‐outcome research, are coherent with the systemic model and do not constrain the therapist's creativity. Such guidelines allow therapists to use manuals flexibly so that they deepen the understanding of the process of therapy.We encourage you to listen to the JFT Editor, Mark Rivett, as he interviews the author on Manuals in the Practice ...

Working with the doldrums in therapeutic practice

Journal of Family Therapy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:22:30 +0100

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Adolescent and Parent Motivation for Change Affects Psychotherapy Outcomes Among Youth With Poorly Controlled Diabetes

Journal of Pediatric Psychology — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100

Conclusions Findings demonstrate the importance of parent and youth initial motivational status and treatment alliance to treatment outcome among youth with poorly controlled diabetes. Additional research on treatment techniques that promote motivation for change is needed. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)

Psychosocial therapeutic interventions for volatile substance use: a systematic review

Addiction — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:42:52 +0100

Conclusions Even when a range of study types are included, clear conclusions for volatile substance use psychological treatment are not supported, but three intervention types merit further examination: family therapy, activity‐based programmes and Indigenous‐led residential approaches. Future volatile substance use research could be enhanced by developing and validating outcome measurement tools. Robust multi‐site studies are also required. (Source: Addiction)

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African Americans and Teen Dating Violence

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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Arguments for an Equal Parental Responsibility Presumption in Contested Child Custody

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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The Effects of the Intergenerational Transmission of Family Emotional Processes on Conflict Styles: The Moderating Role of Attachment

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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The Impact of Childhood Abuse on Women's and Men's Perceived Parenting: Implications for Practitioners

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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A Review of CHANGE: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution (Rev. ed.), by Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, and Richard Fisch

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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A Review of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy With Couples and Families: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians by Frank M. Dattilio

American Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0100

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Family Therapy or Individual Therapy?

About.com Eating Disorders — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:45:50 +0100

Deciding what treatment philosophy and level of care is right for you and your family can be a tricky decision. Everyone needs to have a personalized treatment plan, but it is also important to take into account the types of treatment research supports....Read Full Post (Source: About.com Eating Disorders)

Sex, Your Child and Mobile Gadgets

Psychology Today Parenting Center — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:25:54 +0100

"Needless to say the mind of a child is in no way shape or form mature to process any sexual information, particularly images. Children who consistently see these images, begin emulating what they see."read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)

Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling to Examine Changes in Mental Health Outcomes for Children Enrolled in a System of Care

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100

This study employed latent growth curve (LGC) modeling to examine (a) the degree to which youth improved on indicators of adjustment over the course of the first year of enrollment in MeckCARES, and (b) the services or demographic variables associated with individual differences in the rate of change over time. Participant caregivers (N = 121) reported on 3 major indicators of youth adjustment at baseline, 6‐month follow‐up, and 12‐month follow‐up. Primary analyses indicated that there was a modest yet significant improvement in all 3 outcome measures over the first year of enrollment in MeckCARES. Additional analyses revealed that caregiver reports of receiving case management at any point in the first year were associated with improvement in behavioral and emotional strengths...

Counselor training in several evidence-based psychosocial addiction treatments in private US substance abuse treatment centers

Drug and Alcohol Dependence — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:10:55 +0100

Conclusions: The large training gaps found in this study give rise to concerns regarding the integrity with which CBT, MI, CM, and BSFT are being delivered by counselors in private US substance abuse treatment centers. Future research should examine the generalizability of our findings to other types of treatment centers (e.g., public) and to the implementation of other EBPs. (Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence)

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Courage and Limits with Your Teen

Psych Central — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:25:46 +0100

This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on the delicate balance between adolescents’ needs for containment and freedom. Ashley’s Perspective Ashley was 19. She had been away at college her freshman and sophomore years when her life unraveled again. In high school, she had struggled for several years with escalating depression, drinking, and marijuana use, and the painful feeling that her mother was ashamed of her. Her parents did not recognize the seriousness of the situation until she began to scratch and then cut her arms with sharp objects, at which point her mom got scared and sought help. During her senior year of high school, her mom forced her into treatment, and with intensive individual, family and gro...

Deconstructing theory: Towards an ethical therapy

Theory — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Over the last two decades theorists and therapists have explored and consolidated discursive and relational approaches to therapy based on social constructionist, dialogic, and narrative thinking. Meanwhile in mainstream psychology and psychiatry a modern scientific-realist epistemology prevails. While these two paradigms are diametrically opposed in theory, they are often required to be juxtaposed in practice, especially for therapists working in mainstream mental health services. The paper addresses this theory and practice dilemma of how therapists can work in both therapy paradigms at once. This is illustrated by practice examples, including teaching relational therapy to psychologists trained as scientist practitioners and applying integrative family therapy with depressed and suicida...

Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research

Clinical Ethics — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Using video to facilitate data collection has become increasingly common in health research. Using video in research, however, does raise additional ethical concerns. In this paper we utilize family therapy data to provide empirical evidence of how recording equipment is treated. We show that families made a distinction between what was observed through the video by the reflecting team and what was being recorded onto videotape. We show that all parties actively negotiated what should and should not go ‘on the record’, with particular attention to sensitive topics and the responsibility of the therapist. Our findings have important implications for both clinical professionals and researchers using video data. We maintain that informed consent should be an ongoing process and wi...

Providing Therapy to Children and Families in Foster Care: A Systemic‐Relational Approach

Family Process — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Foster care is a system created to protect children from an unsafe home environment yet multiple foster home placements, conflictual or nonexistent relationships between foster parents and birth parents, long, drawn out court battles, and living in an on‐going state of not knowing when or if they will be going home are just some of the challenges many children in care are expected to manage. This paper presents a guide for therapists working with families involved in foster care. Utilizing ideas from the postmodern therapies and structural family therapy, suggestions will be provided about who needs to talk to whom about what, when to have these necessary conversations, and how to talk to people in a way that mobilizes adults to take action for the children, with the goal of minimizing p...

Developing an Outcome‐Based Assessment for Family Therapy Training: The Rochester Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (ROSCE)

Family Process — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100

We describe the ROSCE, a structured, evidence‐informed, learner‐centered approach to the assessment of clinical skills developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The ROSCE emphasizes direct observation of trainees demonstrating clinical competencies. The format integrates both formative and summative assessment methods. It can readily be adapted to a wide variety of educational and training settings.本文讨论家庭治疗培训中对低本高效、结果导向评测不断增长的需求。我们描述了罗切斯特客观结构化的临床评估(ROSCE)。该评估是罗切斯特大学医疗中心开发的临床技能评估,是一种结构化、循证以及以学习者为中心的方法。ROSCE评估强调直接观察受训者展示的临床水平。该评估格式整合...

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Race, racism and systemic supervision

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

This article seeks to extend this attention by focusing upon the influence of race and racism in the supervision of family and systemic psychotherapy. The way in which the idea of race might be conceptualized is discussed, before looking at how race and racism have been addressed in the field. Attention is then turned to systemic supervision, focusing upon the ideas generated about how supervisors might position themselves in relation to these issues, the implications this might have for the supervisory relationship and the relationships between supervisees and client families. It is proposed that by virtue of the supervisor's position of power over the supervisee, it is the supervisor's responsibility to initiate conversations about race and racism. A proposal for this task is outlined, w...

Parentification and mental health symptoms: mediator effects of perceived unfairness and differentiation of self

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

This study tested a theoretical model of the relation between parentification tasks and mental health symptoms, with perceived unfairness and differentiation of self (DoS) as mediators. The results supported the proposed model in a sample of 783 college students. A significant total indirect effect existed between the latent construct of parentification and that of mental health symptoms. Significant specific indirect effects were observed between parentification and mental health symptoms with perceived unfairness as a mediator; between parentification and DoS with perceived unfairness as a mediator and between perceived unfairness and mental health symptoms mediated by DoS. Implications for clinical work with adult clients who have experienced parentification in their family of origin ar...

Irish norms for the SCORE‐15 and 28 from a national telephone survey

Journal of Family Therapy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

In this study a 29‐item version of the systemic clinical outcome and routine evaluation (SCORE), which contained all items from the SCORE‐15 and SCORE‐28, was used to develop norms for both the 15 and the 28 versions of the SCORE from the same sample. In a random digit dialling telephone survey, a stratified national random sample of 403 adults living in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland completed the SCORE and brief measures of family and personal adjustment. Using receiver operating characteristic curve analyses, cut‐off points for the SCORE‐28 and 15 were found to identify families of children with significant emotional and behavioural problems. We also established 90th percentile points and percentages of cases falling above each scale point for both versions of th...

In Suicide Season

Psychology Today Depression Center — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:32:24 +0100

In the weeks following Halloween, three students at our local high school committed suicide. So when a frantic mother called me about her 16 year old daughter in late Novemeber, I was very worried. Her daughter Jenny was a sophomore at the same high school. Jenny had told her best friend that she wanted to end her life and that she had taken some pills. Primary Topic: Depression read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)

Reviews

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling 21(2): 236-245 Abstract Relational-Cultural Therapy: By Judith V. Jordan (2010). American Psychological Association. 136 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1 -4338-0463-2 Be a Parent Not a Pal: By Dr Jeff Kemp (2010). Australian Academic Press. ISBN: 978-1-9215-1348-0 Achieving QTS -- Meeting the Professional Standards Framework: Behaviour for Learning in the Primary School: By Kate Adams (2009). Learning Matters, ISBN: 978 84445 188 3 Bullying and Young Children: Understanding the Issues and Tackling the Problem: Christine Macintyre (2009). Routledge. ISBN 9780415484961 Readings in Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice: Janice M. Rasheed., Mikal, N, Rasheed., James A. Marley (2010). Sage Publications, 316 pp. (Source: Australian Journal of Guidance and Couns...

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The Impact of Asian American Value Systems on Palliative Care: Illustrative Cases From the Family-Focused Grief Therapy trial.

The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: Family therapists working with culturally diverse families need to pay thoughtful attention to ethnic issues as they strive to support them during palliative care and bereavement. PMID: 22096204 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care)

Challenges in providing family-centered support to families in palliative care.

Palliative Medicine — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: Challenges exist in therapy with difficult families. Therapy in the home brings special issues. Therapists can apply most of the interventions prescribed by the FFGT model. PMID: 22075163 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Palliative Medicine)

Family therapy in Macau: development, challenges and opportunities

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Family therapy in Macau is in its early stages of development. The Satir model and structural family therapy were the first two therapies introduced. Later on, solution‐focused brief therapy and narrative therapy were also introduced. Macau has been undergoing dramatic socioeconomic changes since the relaxation of the gambling licenses. In sociocultural terms this has led to significant changes: the so‐called ‘dealer's complex’, gambling, drug abuse and youth deviance have become more prevalent. To address complicated family problems, various counselling institutes and training centres were established to conduct family therapy. However, there are still some limitations and challenges that must be addressed in order to have a thriving family therapy profession in Macau. (Source: Jo...

Therapist attentiveness and negative capability in dialogical family meetings for psychosis

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Jaakko Seikkula () has pointed towards the importance of practitioners working in the present moment in dialogical therapy. Extrapolating from Seikkula's work, this article considers the significance of the qualities of therapist attentiveness, generosity and negative capability in dialogical family meetings for psychosis. It is proposed that these qualities are of particular importance when family meetings occur in crisis situations, as when under pressure practitioners can easily be drawn into prematurely interventionist stances that may unintentionally promote chronicity for the person experiencing psychosis. The value of co‐working arrangements in enabling practitioners to maintain attentiveness and negative capability in this work is also considered. (Source: Journal of Family Thera...

Enactments in couple therapy: identifying therapist interventions associated with positive change

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Greenberg's analytic method of process research was used to identify therapist interventions associated with positive change during thirty‐six videotaped segments of enactments. Couple interaction was coded using the rapid couple interaction scoring system. Stepwise regression analyses revealed different patterns by gender, with therapists directing and working with emotions related to husband positive interaction and therapist structuring related to wife positive interactions. A multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between couples who became either positive or negative during the enactments. Structuring, directing, and supporting were used more often with positive couples. Implications for theory, therapy, and research are discussed. (Source: Journal of Fam...

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Treatment of adolescents with a cannabis use disorder: Main findings of a randomized controlled trial comparing multidimensional family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in The Netherlands

Drug and Alcohol Dependence — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:47:16 +0100

Conclusions: The current study indicates that MDFT and CBT are equally effective in reducing cannabis use and delinquent behavior in adolescents with a cannabis use disorder in The Netherlands. (Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence)

Thank you to reviewers

Journal of Family Therapy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:17:39 +0100

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Being systemic without being precious

Journal of Family Therapy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:17:30 +0100

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Family therapeutic expertise in geriatric care: Nurses can help defuse conflicts - Buchholz MB.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:49:02 +0100

Knowledge of family therapy can be useful in various fields. In homes for the aged, nurses are often drawn into difficult quarrels between the family and the person living in the home. Understanding the family's conflict patterns could help relax the situa... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Multi‐Family Therapy: Concepts and Techniques

Child and Adolescent Mental Health — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:00:26 +0100

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Book Review: Creative Family Therapy Techniques: Play, Art, and Expressive Activities to Engage Children in Family Sessions

The Family Journal — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100

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A narrative perspective on genograms: Revisiting classical family therapy methods

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100

This article presents how genograms, a classic family therapy technique, can be used in the context of narrative therapy. Genograms create a unique opportunity to explore and re-tell family stories thus enabling their re-authoring. An important aspect of this process is that of tracking down family resources and wisdom. The graphic form of a genogram can be very helpful in distancing a person from the dominant narrations in her/his family. Additionally, genogram analysis is an excellent opportunity to conduct re-membering conversation and introducing the "club of life" metaphor. Finally, the creative approach to drawing genograms can be an invitation for family members to "play" with their family stories and, as a consequence, re-position their roles in these stories. The article completes...

Brief strategic family therapy versus treatment as usual: Results of a multisite randomized trial for substance using adolescents.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Conclusions: We discuss challenges in treatment implementation in community settings and provide recommendations for further research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)

Becoming Dialogical: Psychotherapy or a Way of Life?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): 179-193 Abstract After birth the first thing we learn is becoming a participant in dialogue. We are born in relations and those relations become our structure. Intersubjectivity is the basis of human experience and dialogue the way we live it. In this paper the dilemma of looking at dialogue as either a way of life or a therapeutic method is described. The background is the open dialogue psychiatric system that was initiated in Finnish Western Lapland. The author was part of the team re-organizing psychiatry and afterwards became involved in many different types of projects in dialogical practices. Lately the focus has shifted from looking at speech to seeing the entire embodied human being in the present moment, especial...

Three Wise Young Men, a Cyber Community and Music -- Counselling As Social Action: Storying a Community of Care in the Aftermath of Violence

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

This article describes counselling practice as social action, reporting on a case of children witnessing community violence and its aftermath. Highlighted is the role of friends who made a stand of solidarity against such violence. Outsider witness practices helped recruit and grow a community of care for the client and his friends. This community of care was significantly enhanced by the involvement of a lawyer/musician/activist who composed a song with the three friends to take a stance against guns and violence in their society. Caring solidarity, generosity and doing hope together formed small but significant alliances against entrenched practices of violence. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

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The Hungry-for-Attention Metaphor: Integrating Narrative and Behavioural Therapy for Families With Attention Seeking Children

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): 208-219 Abstract Many families come to treatment with concerns about attention-seeking children. This paper examines the dominant socio-cultural and biological influences on individual parent and child narratives about attention-seeking behaviour and explores the misalignment between the two. A case study illustrates the reconstruction of the dominant problem-saturated story through the hungry-for-attention metaphor. Finally, the author proposes an integrative approach to combining narrative practices with behavioural interventions for families and professional caregivers. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

Curating Stories in Teaching Family Therapy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): 220-236 Abstract In this article I explore the use of Pearce and Pearce's' (1998) notion of `curating stories' and `transcendent story-telling' for teaching about models in family therapy. Taking a position of curator, the discussion invites students into inclusive and pluralist thinking about the many models in family therapy's collection. Two story-making frameworks of Stratigraphy and Australian Aboriginal `Dreaming' are curated in a sequential way allowing a thick description and lived story of pluralism to emerge. Creative use of metaphors invites a context for transforming knowledge and abilities towards pluralism. I outline how family therapy can be taught using these metaphors as a way of freeing students to see i...

Family-Focused Child Therapy in Marital Separation

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

This article discusses family-focused child therapy that prioritises the needs of children while seeking to preserve a systemic approach. At a practice level this may involve: (a) individual child therapy, (b) engaging with smaller subsystems including siblings, (c) joint therapeutic work involving child/ren plus parent/s, and (d) any of these combinations; all while continuing to maintain a systemic understanding of the work. The article discusses the challenges of working with children from separated families, where there is restricted or no possibility of engaging with the broader family system. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

Does Family Intervention for Adolescent Substance Use Impact Parental Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Evaluation

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): 249-263 Abstract Adolescent substance abuse is a common problem and family interventions are emerging as a strategy to prevent it and assist family coping. The effectiveness of a prevention-focussed family intervention was evaluated for its secondary impacts on improving parental mental health and family functioning. Twenty-four secondary schools in Melbourne Victoria were randomly assigned to either a control condition or an intervention titled Resilient Families. The two intervention levels analysed were: (1) a parenting booklet only and; (2) combining the booklet with face-to-face parent education sessions. Parent surveys at baseline were followed up one year and four years later. Repeated-measures analysis (n = 560) f...

Reviews

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): 264-270 Abstract Bidge's Mob Written and illustrated by Gaye Dell. Interrelate Family Centres, 2009. Paperback, RRP $14.95. Creative Family Therapy Techniques: Play, Art, and Expressive Activities to Engage Children in Family Sessions Editor: Liana Lowenstein, Champion Press, Toronto, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0968519967, PB, 313pp. Essential Skills in Family Therapy, from the first interview to termination JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, Todd M. Edwards, Larry Chamow, Claudia Grauf-Grounds. The Guildford Press, 2nd edition, New York 2009. ISBN-978-1-60623-305-4, HB, 277 pp., available in Australia from Footprint Books. Multi-Family Therapy: Concepts and Techniques Eia Asen and Michael Scholz, Routledge, Sussex and New York, 201...

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How to fail as a family therapist working with adults with learning disabilities: a paradoxical literature review

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Over the past 15 years there has been a growing interest in the application of systemic family therapy approaches, methods and techniques to problems encountered by those living with learning disabilities and their social networks. As reports of success in this area increase, however, it is clear that this marginalized group of people continue to suffer from a lack of a ‘theory of failure’. In order to overcome this deficit, a review of the literature as at December 2010 forms the basis of such a paradoxical description, welcoming those living with learning disabilities into a family therapy tradition. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

The application of a domains‐based analysis to family processes: implications for assessment and therapy

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

We describe the features of three domains of family life – safety, attachment and discipline/expectation – and contrast them with exploratory processes in terms of the emotions expressed, the role of certainty versus uncertainty, and the degree of hierarchy in an interaction. We argue that everything that people say and do in family life carries information about the type of interaction they are engaged in – that is, the domain. However, sometimes what they say or how they behave does not make the domain clear, or participants in the social interactions are not in the same domain (there is a domain mismatch). This may result in misunderstandings, irresolvable arguments or distress. We describe how it is possible to identify domains and judge whether they are clear and unclear, and ma...

Guidelines for Classifying Evidence-Based Treatments in Couple and Family Therapy. - Sexton T, Gordon KC, Gurman A, Lebow J, Holtzworth-Munroe A, Johnson S.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:00:09 +0100

Guidelines for Evidence-Based Treatments in Family Therapy are intended to help guide clinicians, researchers, and policy makers in identifying specific clinical interventions and treatment programs for couples and families that have scientifically based e... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Therapeutic processes in multi-family groups for major depression: Results of an interpretative phenomenological study

Journal of Affective Disorders — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:39:46 +0100

Conclusions: Several important therapeutic factors were identified in multi-family therapy groups for depression. These factors help to gain understanding into the processes, which should be emphasized in treatment and ought to be explored in future outcome and process research. (Source: Journal of Affective Disorders)

Forget Family Therapy: Two Big Diversions Have Belly-Flopped into the Middle of Our Self-Absorbed Lives

Psychology Today Relationships Center — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:21:34 +0100

One of my rules of life is never to sit beside anybody who is three weeks into a low-carb diet or just bought a puppy.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)

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Reconceptualizing the Domain and Boundaries of Family Life Education

Family Relations — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:29:33 +0100

Many scholars have defined family life education (FLE), and some have differentiated it from other family‐related fields. For example, Doherty (1995) provided a definition of the boundaries between FLE and family therapy; however, we believe those criteria can be improved. We explore the professions of family life education, family therapy, and family case management using the questions why, what, when, for whom, and how? After examining these questions for each role, we introduce the domains of family practice to differentiate among them. The approach defines FLE and encourages appropriate collaboration among the fields. Suggestions are made for using this model for career exploration, reviewing job requirements to assess role consistency and clarity, and for determining the need for an...

A substantive and methodological review of family‐based treatment for eating disorders: the last 25 years of research

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article provides a substantive and methodological review of all research studies published in the last 25 years that have evaluated a family‐based intervention as a central component in the treatment of eating disorders (specifically anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). While in the past 25 years there has been an increase in research exploring the efficacy of family therapy in the treatment of eating disorders, there has not been a comprehensive review of all these studies. Rather, reports of studies of family therapy and eating disorders are scattered in a wide range of journals and disciplines. Here we summarize the findings, provide a critique of the methodologies used, discuss methodological challenges and suggest next steps for research and clinical practice. (Source: Journa...

Mind-Body Therapy: Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices of Graduate Faculty and Students from Accredited Marriage and Family Therapy Programs in the U.S. and Canada

Explore — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Context: Interest in CAM and mind-body therapies (MBT) among mental health professionals has increased over the last decade. Individuals seeking treatment for mental health concerns often use MBTs and expect clinicians to be aware of such treatments. Yet, current data reveal a critical gap in training, practice, and the needs of those seeking treatment.Objective: To determine the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of marriage and family therapists regarding MBTs.Design: Electronic survey method using Likert-type scale questions.Participants: Clinical faculty members and graduate students (N = 140) from accredited Marriage and Family Therapy programs in the United States and Canada.Results: Findings revealed that a majority of respondents believed that graduate programs should introduce MBT ...

The Science of Becoming Dialogical, Systemic and Narrative

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(3): ii-iv (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

The Impact of Chinese Cultures on a Marital Relationship

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100

ABSTRACTTo illustrate the impact of culture on intimate relationships, we will describe couple therapy with a Chinese couple. This treatment was one element in our teaching for students, clinicians, and trainers in China, where we taught workshops in Object Relations Couple and Family Therapy and a continuous course in Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy at the invitation of Professor Shi Qijia at the Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy and Dr Fang Xin of Peking University in Beijing, respectively. Our hosts arranged for serial translation of our concepts, slides, videos, and group discussions – and of therapeutic consultations with various couples, to be observed live or on video feed to an audience of 70 mental health students, clinicians, and trainers. We taught our Chinese participants the We...

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Guidelines for Classifying Evidence‐Based Treatments in Couple and Family Therapy

Family Process — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:26:27 +0100

Guidelines for Evidence‐Based Treatments in Family Therapy are intended to help guide clinicians, researchers, and policy makers in identifying specific clinical interventions and treatment programs for couples and families that have scientifically based evidence to support their efficacy. In contrast to criteria, which simply identify treatments that “work” and have been employed in the evaluation of other psychotherapies, these guidelines propose a three‐tiered levels‐of‐evidence‐based model that moves from “evidence‐informed,” to “evidence‐based,” to “evidence‐based and ready for dissemination and transportation within diverse community settings.” Each level reflects an interaction between the specificity of the intervention, the strength and readth of th...

Integrative Problem‐Centered Metaframeworks Therapy I: Core Concepts and Hypothesizing

Family Process — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:26:22 +0100

This article (and its companion article) presents a comprehensive, integrative, multisystemic, and empirically informed psychotherapeutic perspective to help therapists and psychotherapy trainers successfully address these challenges—Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks (IPCM) Therapy. This first article presents and illustrates IPCM's theoretical foundation, core concepts, and “case formulating” components. It delineates a Blueprint for the practice and teaching of 21st century psychotherapists who can meld science and art into best practice.RESUMENDurante los últimos 20 años la psicoterapia y la terapia familiar se han visto inundadas de una plétora de tratamientos validados empíricamente para trastornos particulares. Esta tendencia irá en aumento. Cada vez más se les ...

A systematic review of dropout from treatment in outpatients with anorexia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

DISCUSSION:High rates of dropout from treatment for AN have serious implications for recovery, research, and the development of new treatments. A suggested reporting structure is proposed, with the aim of increasing the consistency of dropout reporting and facilitating greater understanding of this phenomenon. © 2011 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2011) (Source: International Journal of Eating Disorders)

Saying Goodbye: How Families Can Find Renewal Through Loss

Psych Central — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:58:34 +0100

Terminal illness is a diagnosis that sends dreams and plans for the future into a tailspin. Regardless if the patient is elderly or in the prime of life, this news changes everything for them and their family from that point on. “Grief is an ongoing process, not a one-time event,” and this quote from Saying Goodbye illustrates clearly the essence of the book. The result of a collaboration between Barbara Okun, Ph.D. and Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D., their many years of experience as family therapists serve the book’s purpose well in helping families come to terms with what is, what shall be, and what will likely happen in the interim. The family of the terminally ill person is brought into their loved one’s new reality to address the finality of the diagnosis and ...

Psychotherapies for comorbid anxiety in bipolar spectrum disorders

Journal of Affective Disorders — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:27:53 +0100

Conclusions: There is an urgent need for randomized controlled trials of different forms of psychotherapy for anxiety disorders comorbid to bipolar disorder. Until such trials are available, the most promising approach would appear to be the sequential or modular CBT-based treatment of the anxiety disorder. (Source: Journal of Affective Disorders)

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Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis

Psych Central — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:43:08 +0100

We describe how to derive functional formulations that can guide treatment both at its onset and, with feedback and updating, across the course of treatment.” Crittenden and Landini then go on to demonstrate exactly how their model can be used as a therapeutic tool, using the initial classification as starting point to guide both the therapist and client toward the resolution of past issues and the reorganization of the thoughts and language that shape both our ideas of self and attachment strategy. Furthermore, this model aims to shift the focus on attachment styles from one of disorder to one of function; from the old deficit-based model to one that is dynamic and optimistic. Rather than an emphasis on diagnosis simply for the sake of identification or labels, the authors stress their ...

Adolescent Health-Risk Sexual Behaviors: Effects of a Drug Abuse Intervention

AIDS and Behavior — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:55:45 +0100

Abstract Adolescents who abuse substances are more likely to engage in health-risking sexual behavior (HRSB) and are at particularly high risk for HIV/AIDS. Thus, substance abuse treatment presents a prime opportunity to target HIV-risk behaviors. The present study evaluated a one-session HIV-risk intervention embedded in a controlled clinical trial for drug-abusing adolescents. The trial was conducted in New Mexico and Oregon with Hispanic and Anglo adolescents. Youths were randomly assigned to individual cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or to an integrated behavioral and family therapy (IBFT) condition, involving individual and family sessions. The HIV-specific intervention was not associated with change. IBFT and CBT were both efficacious in reducing HIV-risk behaviors ...

Engaging reluctant adolescents in family therapy: an exploratory study of in‐session processes of change

Journal of Family Therapy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Informed by a trans‐theoretical model of the therapeutic alliance in conjoint family therapy, this exploratory study was the initial stage in a task analysis of critical shifts in adolescent engagement. Specifically, we compared sessions in which a resistant adolescent either did or did not shift from negative to positive engagement during the session. Two successful and two unsuccessful change events were selected from an archival data set based on SOFTA ratings of the therapeutic alliance. The results suggested that one parent element (support) and five therapist elements (structuring therapeutic conversations, fostering autonomy, building systemic awareness, rolling with resistance and understanding the adolescent's subjective experience) seemed critical for successfully facilitating ...

Systemic psychotherapy as an intervention for post‐traumatic stress responses: an introduction, theoretical rationale and overview of developments in an emerging field of interest

Journal of Family Therapy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0100

The purpose of this article is to critically examine the literature to provide a rationale for including systemic family therapy (SFT) in the psycho‐social treatment of people suffering the impact of post‐traumatic stress (PTS). Attention is drawn to the relatively underdeveloped academic literature on PTS and the family. The impact of PTS is conceptualized within a psycho‐social framework and the current evidence base for psycho‐social interventions for PTS responses is described, highlighting the opportunity and need to undergird this area of daily practice. The impact of PTS on the family at multiple levels is identified, emphasizing its recursive nature. The case for SFT is articulated and a range of models of family intervention for PTS briefly reviewed, concluding with an emp...

Relational consciousness and the conversational practices of Johnella Bird

Journal of Family Therapy — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In this article we review Johnella Bird's notion of relational consciousness, explaining it in terms of an ethnomethodologically informed social constructionist theory. We extend this notion to her conversational practices in therapy, examining first her general practice (and focus) on relational language‐making. We then turn to describing three of her specific conversational practices – negotiating conflicting discursive positions between partners in a relationship, exploring a partner's experience of hurt in a relationship, following unspoken assumptions, and negotiating power relations. We conclude by relating relational consciousness to an attendance to language as it is used by clients and by therapists in dialogue with clients. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

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Commentary: a different lens for working with affairs: using social constructionist and attachment theory

Journal of Family Therapy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:33:31 +0100

A combined social constructivist and attachment theory approach can help in work with affairs. Using past empirical research, a case is made that vulnerability to affairs derives primarily from pressures on partnerships stemming from the dominant discourse of modern partnerships. This discourse exalts sharing and joining, subjugating the more common experience of couples that other meaningful relationships (including non‐sexual ones) augment and fill in gaps. Affairs may be seen as, perhaps misguided, attempts to address untenable goals of the dominant discourse. Concomitantly, attachment theory explains both the need to be in a variety of relationships, normally within a hierarchy (‘multiple attachments’) and also the extreme wounds attendant to the discovery of secret affairs. Usin...

Therapeutic Uses of the WebCam in Child Psychiatry [MEDIA COLUMN]

Acad Psychiatry — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Conclusion: The WebCam has proven to be useful in psycho-education, facilitating communication, and treating children and families. The applications of this technology may include cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical-behavioral, and group therapy. (Source: Acad Psychiatry)

Finding the heart of medical family therapy: A content analysis of medical family therapy casebook articles.

Families, Systems, and Health — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0100

In an effort to identify the essential ingredients of medical family therapy, a content analysis of 15 peer-reviewed case studies in medical family therapy was conducted. The case studies were published from 1996 to 2007 in Families, Systems, & Health. Through a qualitative content analysis, three main themes emerged that describe the essence of the practice of medical family therapy: (1) The patient's multisystemic experience of disease, (2) treatment is about caring, not just caregiving, and (3) elevating the patient as collaborator in the care team. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Families, Systems, and Health)

Measuring health outcomes of adolescents: report from a pilot study

The European Journal of Health Economics — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:02:02 +0100

This report explores the problems with the language and concepts embodied within those HRQoL questionnaires and open discussion regarding how we can value the health of adolescents for cost-utility analysis in a larger study. Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-9DOI 10.1007/s10198-011-0340-0Authors Yemi Oluboyede, Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Building, Room 2.07, 101 Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9LJ UKSandy Tubeuf, Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Building, Room 2.10, 101 Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9LJ UKChris McCabe, Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Buil...

“What I wish parents knew about eating disorders…”

Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:56:40 +0100

In the following blog, a teenager who has overcome an eating disorder reflects on what she wishes more parents knew about the condition. For more information visit Children’s Center for Young Women website, or this parent’s guide to eating disorders. It was never about weight. I just wanted to feel like I had some control. I never thought I was fat. In fact, I liked the way I looked before I developed an eating disorder and liked my body less and less as I continued to lose weight. What a lot of people, including my parents, didn’t understand is that an eating disorder functions as a coping mechanism for other problems in someone’s life. As I met more people who suffered from eating disorders, I realized that many of us had something in common. Many felt some sort of los...

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Different levels of psychotherapeutic competence

Journal of Family Therapy — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:08:30 +0100

In this article, I argue for a both – and position in regard to manuals. I suggest that manuals are appropriate when describing therapeutic strategizing and technical competence. However, I also argue that they are an inappropriate tool for understanding the contribution of the client's family in family therapy. This argument fuels a further view that manuals cannot capture the dance that occurs between therapist and family. For this type of knowledge, a relational type of competence needs to be developed. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

Facilitating forgiveness in the treatment of infidelity: an interpersonal model

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article presents a unique clinical model of forgiveness developed specifically for use in the treatment of infidelity. The model focuses on forgiveness as a central component of the process of healing for couples who desire relationship reconciliation following an affair. Infidelity causes significant damage for couples and results in a loss of trust and relationship stability. However, couples can become reunified and trust may be restored as couples work through the process of forgiveness. Forgiveness is facilitated as therapists and clients focus on four unifying factors: empathy, humility, commitment and apology. Specific steps are outlined for therapists to help them guide clients through the process of forgiveness. The clinical application of the model is illustrated with a brie...

Thematic review of family therapy journals 2010

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In this article the contents of the principal English‐language family therapy journals published in 2010 are reviewed under these headings: child‐focused problems, adult‐focused problems, substance misuse across the lifespan, couples, diversity, spirituality and mindfulness, training, revisiting history and research. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

Do primary care psychological therapists ‘think family’? Challenges and opportunities for couple and family therapy in the context of ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) services

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Very little couple or family work takes place in primary care despite the advantages offered by the context. This pilot study investigated the experiences of primary care adult therapists regarding the place of families in their clinical work. Semi‐structured interviews with seven therapists were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings tentatively suggest that primary care psychological therapists ‘think family’ primarily from the perspective of their main therapeutic model when offering individual therapy. Some study participants questioned the appropriateness of their family/context focus. Family members were extremely rarely seen together. Facilitating factors included supervision and training. Barriers to family work were both external (the work sett...

‘Seeking permission’: an interviewing stance for finding connection with hard to reach families

Journal of Family Therapy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:21:51 +0100

The systemic therapy literature is dominated by clinic‐based accounts of therapy. The work of an outreach, home‐based therapy team is described, in a tradition of systemic therapies which directly seek to challenge service access constraints and social injustice. In paying careful attention to the micro‐interactions of initial contact, seeking permission is suggested as an interviewing stance for connecting with families who are not engaged with services, where there have been histories of partner violence. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

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‘I love you’. How to understand love in couple therapy? Exploring love in context

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Acknowledging the place of love in couple therapy requires therapists to reflect upon what love means to them. We propose that love defines the couple relationship and in turn the relationship defines love. In this article we explore and focus on our conceptualization of love and its influence on couple therapy. Exploring love in the context of the phrase ‘I love you’ leads us to consider built‐in contradictions. These contradictions can be contextualized and understood in a relational dialectic framework. Implications for therapy are explored and briefly illustrated in a case vignette. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

European youth care sites serve different populations of adolescents with cannabis use disorder. Baseline and referral data from the INCANT trial

BMC Psychiatry - Latest articles — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Conclusions: A multisite trial has the advantage of being efficient, but it also carries risks, the most important one being lack of equivalence between local study populations. Our site populations differed in many respects. This is not a problem for analyses and interpretations if the differences somehow can be accounted for. To a major extent, this appeared possible in INCANT. The most important factor underlying the cross-site variations in baseline characteristics was referral source. Correcting for referral source made most differences disappear. Therefore, we will use referral source as a covariate accounting for site differences in future INCANT outcome analyses.Trial registrationISRCTN51014277 (Source: BMC Psychiatry - Latest articles)

Exploring actor–partner interdependence in family therapy: Whose view (parent or adolescent) best predicts treatment progress?

Journal of Counseling Psychology — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Predictions of family therapy outcome consistently vary depending on which client rates the alliance. We used the actor–partner interdependence model (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) to test the interdependence of parents' and adolescents' ratings of alliance, session depth/value, and improvement-so-far after Sessions 3, 6, and 9. Initial analyses found trivial between-therapists variance; therefore, a 3-level hierarchical model partitioned the variance in these variables into between families, between family members, and between session components. For alliance and session depth, results showed a significant parent actor effect and a significant adolescent partner effect. Specifically, when parents saw a stronger alliance, they also saw the session as more valuable, but when adolescents saw...

Giving children a voice: children's positioning in family therapy

Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:08:19 +0100

Studies of users' views of family therapy have rarely explored the means by which children construct their experiences. Family interviews after a first session of therapy included thirteen children aged 8 to 15 years. An analysis of the transcripts demonstrated that, like adults, children draw on forms of explanation generated by acknowledged experts. They used discourses of counselling, therapy, consumerism and education to construct and assess their experiences. The ages of the children affected the construction and evaluation of therapy and the positions taken up in relation to adults. Older children demonstrated more independence from parents. Like adults, the children adopted a variety of stakes, their sophistication increasing with age, suggesting a developmental path towards full me...

Ecological epistemologies and beyond: qualitative research in the twenty‐first century

Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:08:14 +0100

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The case for early intervention in anorexia nervosa: theoretical exploration of maintaining factors [EDITORIALS]

The British Journal of Psychiatry — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Here we revisit and reinterpret the original study in which the so-called ‘Maudsley (London) model’ of family therapy was compared with individual therapy for anorexia nervosa. Family therapy was more effective in adolescents with a short duration of illness. However, this is only part of the story. A later study describing the 5-year outcome contains important information. Those adolescents randomised to family therapy achieved a better outcome 5 years later. Moreover, the group with an onset in adolescence but who had been ill for over 3 years had a poor response to both family and individual therapy, suggesting that unless effective treatment is given within the first 3 years of illness onset, the outcome is poor. We examine other evidence supporting this conclusion and cons...

Frameworks for Practice in the Systemic Field: Part 2 -- Contemporary Frameworks in Family Therapy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 87-108 Abstract This is the second of two articles to map the landscape of practice theory in systemic family therapy. The first article gave a particular chronology of the development of family therapy practice theory, beginning with the frameworks that emerged in the 1960s-1970s and then tracing the transitional decade of the 1980s. The convergences of three sets of influences -- ecosystemic epistemology, the feminist challenge and postmodernist ideas -- led to the changed landscape of post-1990 practice theory. This second article picks up at this point, mapping four contemporary influential approaches in Australian family therapy -- the Milan-systemic, narrative and solution-focused frameworks, and the dialogical pers...

Integrating Family Therapy Training in a Clinical Psychology Course

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 109-123 Abstract Teaching family therapy to clinical psychology trainees is not common practice in Australian clinical psychology training programs. There is sparse discussion in the literature. Family therapy is an evidence based intervention that complements a diversity of established theories and psychotherapies and would complement the intervention skills of trainee clinical psychologists. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how family therapy training may be integrated into a postgraduate clinical psychology course. The literature on core family therapy knowledge, skills and training methods will form the backdrop to a review of specific family therapy training courses for clinical psychology trainees. This will t...

First Commentary on Integrating Family Therapy Training in a Clinical Psychology Course

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 124-125 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

SECOND COMMENTARY ON Integrating Family Therapy Training in a Clinical Psychology Course

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 126-128 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

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Lost in Translation? Embracing the Challenges of Working With Families From a Refugee Background

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article describes the difficulties a mainstream family therapy service experienced in working with families from a refugee background. The experience of six therapists and five bicultural workers, who are also the referring agents, was captured in focus groups, and the reflections that emerged shaped a four-part approach for working with families from a refugee background. Live consultation, either by the family therapist or bicultural worker, is suggested as a way to marry the expertise of family therapists who are not cultural `insiders' with the `lived experience' and cultural expertise of bicultural support workers. The process of reflecting on therapeutic failure resulted in several principles for working therapeutically with families with a history of refugee trauma, unmet reset...

Filial Therapy: A Structured and Straightforward Approach to Including Young Children in Family Therapy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article describes Filial Therapy, a structured and straightforward approach to working with parents and young children in family therapy; it highlights the congruence between Filial Therapy and the values and principles of family therapy. The historical, theoretical and research foundations of Filial Therapy are described. The family science and child socialisation literatures are also briefly reviewed, linking key predictors of positive child outcome with the goals of Filial Therapy. Finally, we discuss the consistencies between Filial Therapy and experiential and structural models of family therapy. We conclude with a description of Filial Therapy followed by a case example to illustrate the process. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse as a Life-Long Process: Implications for Health Professionals

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 159-172 Abstract One of the aims of this research project was to develop a fuller understanding of the process of disclosure of child sexual abuse. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 men and women aged 25 to 70 years old, who had an early sexual experience at the age of 15 or under with someone of 18 or over. Narrative inquiry methodology was used and data was analysed using Rosenthal and Fischer-Rosenthal's (2004) process of data analysis. Disclosure can be conceptualised as a complex and life-long process, and most participants did not make a selective disclosure until adulthood. The findings extend Alaggia's (2004) model of disclosure to include the life stage and the person to whom the disclosure ...

Reviews

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): 173-178 Abstract Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication With Children, Parents and Families: Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing Ruth Schmidt Neven. Routledge, London 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-55243-1, PB, 184 pp, $63.95 Readings in Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice Editors: Rasheed, J.M., Rasheed M.N. & Marley, J.A. Sage 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4129-0584-8, PB, 336pp, $41.95 Multisystemic Therapy for Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition Scott W. Henggeler, Sonja K. Schoenwald, Charles M. Borduin, Melisa D. Rowland, Phillippe B. Cunningham. The Guilford Press, New York. 2009.ISBN-10: 1572301066, HC, 324 pp., $83.95 (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Fa...

Treatment of adolescents with a cannabis use disorder: Main findings of a randomized controlled trial comparing multidimensional family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in The Netherlands. - Hendriks V, van der Schee E, Blanken P.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:12:11 +0100

BACKGROUND: To meet the treatment needs of the growing number of adolescents who seek help for cannabis use problems, new or supplementary types of treatment are needed. We investigated whether multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) was more effective than... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

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Understanding Infidelity: An Interview With Gerald Weeks

The Family Journal — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In this interview, Gerald Weeks shares his expertise on the topic of infidelity and couples counseling. Dr. Weeks defines infidelity, presents assessment strategies for treating the issue of infidelity, and discusses an intersystemic model for infidelity treatment when counseling couples. Dr. Weeks also provides insight into common mistakes made by clinicians when counseling couples in treatment for infidelity. He is the author of 22 books and hundreds of journal articles and a leader in the field of marriage and family therapy and a highly respected educator and clinician. (Source: The Family Journal)

A Structural/Strategic Lens in the Treatment of Children With Obesity

The Family Journal — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Childhood obesity is an issue affecting an increasing number of families in the United States and the international community. In the past, obesity has been treated primarily by medical models that may or may not have included family therapy. It has been found that the use of family therapy in treating childhood obesity is helpful to produce long-term results. The authors suggest that the use of structural/strategic family therapy may also be useful in treating children and families dealing with obesity, as well as other medical issues that are a result of it. (Source: The Family Journal)

Book Review: Book Review: Thomas L. Sexton Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. 272 pp. $49.95. ISBN# 0415996929

The Family Journal — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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Bridging Conversations: Discussing the Intra‐professional Relationship between Medical Family Therapy and Family Therapy

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article examines the conceptual and practice relationship between medical family therapy (MedFT) and its parent field, family therapy, with MedFT viewed as the extension of relational sense‐making and understanding into a specific venue; that of medicine. The extension of this relational meaning system into medicine is typified by the ability of the therapist to negotiate and connect three main areas of conceptual difference that often account for conflictual relationships between mental and biomedical healthcare providers: (i) patient and provider conceptualizations of issues and goals, (ii) linear and circular understanding of issues and goals and (iii) consultative and expert positions on issues and goals. Two case examples are offered to describe how these three areas of tension...

Mentalization‐based Therapeutic Interventions for Families

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article attempts to bridge two seemingly different and yet related worlds, the intra‐psychic and the interpersonal, by viewing systemic practice(s) through a mentalization‐based lens. It is argued that in therapy there needs to be a deliberate, conscious and consistent focus on mentalizing. The emerging mentalization‐based therapy for families is an innovative approach and a distinctive model which is systemic in essence, deriving its ideas and practices from a variety of diverse systemic approaches, yet enriching family work by adding mentalizing ingredients. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

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The Panorama of Family Therapy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 32(2): iii-iv (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))

Why we all need a little family therapy

The Irish Times - Health — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:13:15 +0100

THE FAMILY Therapy Association of Ireland (FTAI), which is the professional body of systemic therapy, has just launched a new website so anyone who needs a therapist can find one in their local area. (Source: The Irish Times - Health)

Using the e-SOFTA for video training and research on alliance-related behavior.

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In this article, we describe a specific technology for training/supervision and research on the working alliance in either individual or couple/family therapy. The technology is based on the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances (SOFTA; Friedlander, Escudero, & Heatherington, 2006), which contains four conceptual dimensions (Engagement in the Therapeutic Process, Emotional Connection with the Therapist, Safety within the Therapeutic System, and Shared Sense of Purpose within the Family), observational rating tools (SOFTA-o), and self-report measures (SOFTA-s) shown to be important indicators of therapeutic progress. The technology, e-SOFTA, is a computer program (available for PC downloading free of charge) that can be used to rate client(s) and therapist on the specific SOFTA-o be...

Preliminary results for an adaptive family treatment for drug abuse in Hispanic youth.

Journal of Family Psychology — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A small randomized trial investigated a new family-based intervention for Hispanic adolescents who met DSM–IV criteria for substance abuse disorder. The Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA) is a tailored/adaptive intervention that includes a flexible treatment manual and multiple treatment components. The study used an “add on” design to isolate the effects on substance abuse, behavior problems, and parenting practices attributable to the newly developed components. Twenty-eight Hispanic adolescents and their families were randomized either to the experimental treatment or to traditional family therapy (TFT) and were assessed at baseline and 8-month follow-up. Despite the small sample, results revealed statistically significant time × trea...

Toward a contemporary social justice agenda in family therapy research and practice. - Imber-Black E.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:24:54 +0100

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Q&A With a Family Therapist: How Kids Survive Family Secrets

TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:04:02 +0100

Healthland spoke with Dr. Jill Waterman about family secrets, reintegration and the role that family therapy can play in healing children's relationships with parents (Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories)

Seminar: Gambling disorders

NeLM - Mental Health — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Source: Lancet Area: News This seminar in the Lancet on gambling disorders, including pathological gambling and problem gambling reviews the following topics: . Diagnosis and evaluation . Causes and pathogenesis . Natural and treatment assisted recovery and support (pathways to recovery, brief treatment, psychosocial treatment, psychopharmacological treatment, Gamblers Anonymous, Family therapy) . Clinical factors and future directions (Source: NeLM - Mental Health)

Implementation Outcomes of Multidimensional Family Therapy-Detention to Community: A Reintegration Program for Drug-Using Juvenile Detainees

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article (a) outlines the rationale and protocol basics of the MDFT-DTC intervention, a program for substance-using juvenile offenders that links justice and substance abuse treatment systems to facilitate adolescents’ postdetention community reintegration; (b) presents implementation outcomes, including fidelity, treatment engagement and retention rates, amount of services received, treatment satisfaction, and substance abuse—juvenile justice system collaboration outcomes; and (c) details the implementation and sustainability challenges in a cross-system (substance abuse treatment and juvenile justice) adolescent intervention. Findings support the effectiveness of the MDFT-DTC intervention, and the need to develop a full implementation model in which transfer and dissemina...

Toward a Contemporary Social Justice Agenda in Family Therapy Research and Practice

Family Process — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:30:51 +0100

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Will He Grow Out of It? Why Wait and See May Be a Mistake

Psychology Today Parenting Center — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:29:22 +0100

As the mother of two now grown sons I still get the chills thinking about living with and attempting to keep both of them alive and on track from age 14 to (if I'm honest) 21. The research about what can easily be called an epidemic of conduct disorder in boys (6 to 16%, 8 to 18 yrs) is there and it is sobering. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)

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Behavioral couples and family therapy for substance abusers - O’Farrell T, Fals-Stewart W.

SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:09:44 +0100

Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) sees the substanceabusing patient with the spouse to arrange a daily "sobriety contract" in which the patient states his or her intent not to drink or use drugs, and the spouse expresses support for the patient’s efforts ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook

Psych Central — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:57:53 +0100

Postmodern sandplay: An introduction for play therapists.

International Journal of Play Therapy — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In this article we apply postmodern insights to sandplay therapy. In doing so, we seek to move sandplay therapy from its traditional base of an endeavor at problem solving: a therapeutic method to aid one's diagnosis and address concerns over functioning. Rather, we offer an approach to sandplay therapy from a base of postmodern thought. As has been done in the field of family therapy with solution-building therapy (De Jong & Berg, 2002) and narrative therapy (White, 2007), postmodern insights transform this therapeutic method into a narrative endeavor concerned with the articulation of identity as the means to foster change in the client. Sandplay offers a safe and secure site where the articulation of this new, empowered identity begins to get crafted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 ...

Micro‐analysis of a therapist‐generated metaphor referring to the position of a parentified child in the family

Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The purpose of this exploratory study is to develop a deeper understanding of the way in which the metaphorical language of therapists evolves in dialogue with a client over the course of a therapeutic session. We first briefly report on a study in which we categorized the metaphors used by therapists in twelve therapy sessions with a role‐played client. Then we focus on an intensive micro‐analysis of one particular metaphor that was introduced in the session by one particular therapist in the categorization study: the metaphor of a fireman in the family. Our analysis allowed us a detailed look at some of the ways in which metaphorical language opens dialogical space in the session to talk about the position of parentification of the client and about the price she has to pay for this p...

Systems Theory, Family Attachments and Processes of Triangulation: Does the Concept of Triangulation Offer a Useful Bridge?

Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This article reviews the usefulness of the systemic concept of triangulation as a bridge between systemic thinking and practice and attachment theory. Traditionally attachment theory has theorized and researched with dyads, parent‐child and adult romantic partners, whereas systemic theory has worked therapeutically with the triangle as the basic human relationship; that is, when any two people interact, their interactions are influenced by their respective relationships with the same third person. Here it is argued, for example, that a child's attachment representations are shaped not only by the relationship with each parent but with the relationship between them. Thus, the process of triangulation in intimate relationships is seen in this article to link attachment theory with systemic...

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Extreme Traumatization in Chile: the Experience and Treatment of Families

Journal of Family Therapy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This report focuses on the loss and grief that many families experienced after a family member was imprisoned and tortured or assassinated, or both. Systemic therapeutic implications of the difficulties these families faced are proposed. (Source: Journal of Family Therapy)

Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy

Psychiatric Times — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:00:01 +0100

The Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy is a succinct, well-written volume that provides evidence for the wisdom behind treatment of the family and/or involvement of the family when treating the patient. (Source: Psychiatric Times)

Lack of Safety Net for LGBT Couples Causes Stress

Psych Central — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:02:37 +0100

The “straight safety net” involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged stress for queer couples. Following are three different scenarios from my sessions with queer couples that exemplify some of these common stressors. Yvonne & Angela: How homophobia ruined our romantic vacation After I asked a lesbian couple why they hadn’t taken a vacation together in five years, this is what they told me: Yvonne: I took her on what was advertised as a “gay-friendly destination” but as it turned out, we were the only queer couple in sight! Consequently, she was really paranoid in public and wouldn’t hold my hand on the beach, or she would become really uncomfortable if I suggested a restaurant that look...

Identity Structures: Holons, Boundaries, Hierarchies, and the Formation of the Collaborative Identity

The Family Journal — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

An individual’s identity and identity processes are important factors in understanding the individual within a system. Drawing on Marcia’s identity theory and Minuchin’s ideas of structural family therapy, in this article, we aim to further the understanding of identity. It puts forth a theory of identity that suggests that identity is not a single entity, but rather it is a structure formed by identity holons. The status of each identity holon (diffused, foreclosed, achieved, or moratorium) creates a boundary around the holon that influences the hierarchy of the identity. The hierarchy of the identity creates the collaborative identity. Further, we discuss the application of this theory in a therapeutic setting. (Source: The Family Journal)

Review and reflections on 40 years of family therapy development in Taiwan

Journal of Family Therapy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:39:24 +0100

Although the systemic approach is considered to fit Chinese culture, the development of family therapy in Taiwan is recent, starting in 1969, and growing as a treatment modality in Taiwan for the past two decades. To examine this development, this article reviewed 127 locally published family therapy studies published during the years 1969–2009. Content analysis was used to examine these articles and the results clearly showed an increase in the amount of publications during this period. The focus of the studies also shifted from theoretical issues to practical concerns. An analysis of 15 of these articles, which were case reports, suggested a preference for local common practice, for example, a focus on therapist manoeuvres rather than the clients' perspectives, which might have hindere...

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The Recovery Place Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center Has...

PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:01:06 +0100

Beyond The Recovery Place's efforts in providing the best possible drug rehab and alcohol abuse treatment with trauma recovery support, family therapy, and mental health treatment integrated into...(PRWeb April 22, 2011)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5263984.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)

A Primer on the Evolution of Therapeutic Engagement in MFT: Understanding and Resolving the Dialectic Tension of Alliance and Neutrality. Part 2Recommendations: Dynamic Neutrality Through Multipartiality and Enactments

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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Outcomes of Client Transfers in a Training Setting

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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The Parentification Inventory: Development, Validation, and Cross-Validation

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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Gender and Violence in Dyadic Relationships

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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Role of Ethnicity in Family Functioning, Personality, and Depression in an Iranian Sample

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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A Review of Families That Flourish: Facilitating Resilience in Clinical Practice

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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A Review of Relational Competence Theory: Research and Mental Health Applications

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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A Review of Play Therapy with Children in Crisis: Individual, Group and Family Treatment, 3rd Edition

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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A Review of Parental Alienation: DSM-5 and ICD-11

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:59:45 +0100

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Supporting Military Parent and Child Adjustment to Deployments and Separations With Filial Therapy

American Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:17:31 +0100

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Systemic Family Therapy for Families who have Experienced Trauma: A Randomised Controlled Trial

British Journal of Social Work — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

This paper describes a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigation of the added value of systemic family therapy (SFT) over individually focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for families in which one or more members has suffered trauma and been referred to a community-based psychotherapy centre. The results illustrate how an apparently robust design can be confounded by high attrition rates, low average number of therapeutic sessions and poor protocol adherence. The paper highlights a number of general and specific lessons regarding the resources and processes involved that can act as a model for those planning to undertake studies of this type and scope. A key message is that the challenges of conducting RCTs in ‘real world’ settings should not be underestimated. Th...

Integrating play and family therapy methods: A survey of play therapists' attitudes in the field.

International Journal of Play Therapy — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The researchers surveyed 295 members of the Association for Play Therapy on their attitudes related to working with families when treating children. The results indicated the majority of play therapists held attitudes conducive to involving families in their approaches with children. However, mixed findings were found in specific areas related to the implementation of play therapy with families, suggesting barriers may exist. These mixed findings included a decreased percentage of play therapists that felt like play therapy was effective in family therapy when compared with the high level who felt that play and family therapy approaches could be integrated. Moreover, the respondents were divided on issues such as parents' willingness to be involved in therapy with their children and if par...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as a therapeutic intervention for traumatized children and adolescents: a systematic review of the evidence for family therapists

Journal of Family Therapy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:24:48 +0100

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy for post‐traumatic symptoms of relevance to systemic therapists. The literature available on individual EMDR in traumatized children is reviewed in this article. A sample of eight studies was examined, consisting of three controlled trials, two uncontrolled studies and three case reports or series. The controlled trials compared EMDR with waiting list controls or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The study samples were small and their methodological quality variable. In all the studies, the results suggested a positive effect for EMDR but did not appear superior to CBT. It is therefore possible that systemic interventions may be improved by the integration of EMDR and family therapy with chi...

Challenges in conducting a multi‐site randomized clinical trial comparing treatments for adolescent anorexia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Discussion:Problems with the delineation of safety procedures, recruitment, re‐design of the study, and replacement of a site, were the main elements resulting in a 1‐year delay. Suggestions are made for overcoming such problems in future AN trials. © 2011 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 2011 (Source: International Journal of Eating Disorders)

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Understanding the connection between spiritual well-being and physical health: an examination of ambulatory blood pressure, inflammation, blood lipids and fasting glucose

Journal of Behavioral Medicine — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:32:40 +0100

Abstract Growing research has demonstrated a link between spiritual well-being and better health; however, little is known about possible physiological mechanisms. In a sample of highly religious healthy male and female adults (n = 100) ages 19–59 (m = 28.28) we examined the influence of spiritual well-being, as measured by the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-Ex), on physiological risk factors for heart disease. Specifically we examined 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (BP), inflammation (hs-C-reactive protein), fasting glucose, and blood lipids. Regression analyses reveal that higher levels of spiritual-wellness (total FACIT-Sp-Ex score) was significantly related to lower systolic ambulatory BP (β =&...

Professional controversies and debates

Journal of Family Therapy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:50:04 +0100

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7 Ways To Make Interfaith Relationships Work

Psych Central — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:43:06 +0100

“People try to minimize the differences when they’re in love,” says Joel Crohn, Ph.D., author of Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic and Interfaith Relationships. But dismissing the differences can be detrimental to a couple in the future. If you’re part of an interfaith relationship, you have an extra layer of diversity to deal with. Crohn, who specializes in couples and family therapy, offers seven ideas for understanding these differences and helping interfaith relationships work. 1. Face the issues. Again, the biggest problem facing interfaith couples is denying that differences actually exist. Even if you’re not that religious, differences can creep up in the future, Crohn says. Also, in avoiding the differences dialogue, couples might make i...

Improving access to psychological therapies: systemic therapy in the Newham pilot site

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme, which started with two pilot sites, has dramatically changed the provision of mental health services for depression and anxiety disorders in the National Health Service. The IAPT initiative has focused on the provision of cognitive behaviour therapy but incorporated a small systemic therapy service in the Newham pilot site. The outcomes of this systemic service are presented in this article. Most clients seen by the service suffered from depression and anxiety disorders. The response rate for the evaluation questionnaires was high. For the depression and anxiety measures the recovery rate was above 50 per cent and the effect sizes were large. Most of the clients were satisfied with the service. A trend towards employment was...

Families' experience of harmony and disharmony in systemic psychotherapy and its effects on family life

Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Family harmony is highly valued by Asian families. This qualitative study sets out to explore the contribution that harmony makes to therapy. Four Singaporean Chinese family members, a mother and daughter from one family, and a sister and brother from another, were interviewed about harmony and disharmony. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to make sense of the in‐depth interviews. The results suggested that family harmony was important and was defined as harmonious co‐existence in family life. Systemic psychotherapy sessions successfully influenced the family members' experience of harmony and disharmony with other members and contributed to harmony in therapy and family life. Lastly, the participants detailed the links between harmony or disharmony and systems at the i...

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Foreword: The ABC’s of Psychotherapy

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:51:59 +0100

As each issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America is being considered, one question that weighs heavily on my mind is which topics we need to cover. Having a strong public health component in my decision-making process, I have attempted to focus on topics that can truly have a major impact on our patients and our practices. Examples of this include the recent issues on Adolescent Substance Use Disorders as well as Leadership and Management Core Competencies. These are topics that interface with our clinical practices on a routine basis. The public health component is that they are also topics for which there is a great unmet need. Likewise, if our skillset is honed, we may be in a better position to beneficially impact the lives of our patients. While I believe in...

4 Misconceptions about Family Therapy

Psychology Today Anxiety Center — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:50:30 +0100

Many parents, when they hear the word "therapy," get a mental image of a Woody Allen-type character spending countless years on a therapist's couch with little or no improvement in his original problem. Let's face it: traditional "talk therapy" that takes many years with scant results has gotten a bad name. When parents hear "family therapy," they think it is another kind of infinite therapy.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)

Reuniting Estranged Family Members: A Cognitive-Behavioral-Systemic Perspective

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

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Second-Order Change in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Web-Based Modified Delphi Study

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

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Couples in Therapy: Actor-Partner Analyses of the Relationships Between Adult Romantic Attachment and Marital Satisfaction

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

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Men Making and Keeping Commitments

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

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Religious Therapists and Clients in Same-Sex Relationships: Lessons from the Court Case of Bruff v. North Mississippi Health Service, Inc.

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

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The Influence of Professional License Type on the Outcome of Family Therapy

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

(Source: American Journal of Family Therapy)

Therapeutic Dilemmas in Treating Internet Infidelity

American Journal of Family Therapy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:04:54 +0100

(Source: American Journal of Family Therapy)