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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Couple and Family Counselors: Individual Portraits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Definitional Issues | |
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| A Day in the Practice of a Couple and Family Counselor | |
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| The Baxter/Klein Case | |
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| Counseling Competence-Common Factors | |
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| Person-Centered Approaches | |
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| The Contemporary Search for Common Factors | |
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| The Special Identity of the Family Counselor | |
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| Identity Processes | |
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| Shared Interests and Goals | |
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| Shared Perspective | |
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| Shared Expertise | |
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| Personal Challenges of Family Counseling | |
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| Diverse Credentials | |
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| Choices | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Retelling the Story: Couple and Family Counseling in the Early Years | |
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| The Context of This Telling | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Cultural and Political Awareness | |
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| Social Constructionism and Narrative | |
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| The Dominant Marriage and Family Therapy Story | |
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| The Healer | |
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| The Hero | |
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| The Discoverer | |
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| An Alternative Story, Phase I: The Discovery Years | |
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| Gradual, Incremental Change | |
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| Professional Groups and Collaboration | |
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| The New Family Therapy Movement | |
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| Early Models-The Leading Citizens in a Frontier Town | |
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| An Alternative Story, Phase II: The Consolidation Years (1970-1979), a Search for Consensus | |
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| Social Change | |
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| Systems Fervor | |
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| Advanced Models-Captains of Industry | |
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| Change, But Not Too Much Change | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Field Matures | |
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| Societal Change | |
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| Sexuality in the United States | |
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| A Changing Family Landscape | |
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| Technology and Families | |
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| Changes inside the Field | |
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| Personnel Changes | |
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| Organizational Maturation | |
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| The Managed Care Revolution | |
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| Technology and Professional Communication | |
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| The 1980s: A Midlife Crisis | |
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| Feminist Challenges | |
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| Emerging Postmodernism | |
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| The 1990s and beyond: Reexamining Values and Settling Down | |
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| Life Goes On | |
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| Transformations | |
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| Integrationist Moves | |
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| Growth and Increasing Diversity | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Family Therapy in Its Midlife: Five Themes | |
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| Mastery-Level Performance and Integration | |
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| Themes, Not Originators or Models | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Interconnectedness in Relationship Processes | |
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| Behavior: Learning, Habits, and Reinforcement | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Context | |
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| Teaching and Learning | |
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| Core Behavioral Principles | |
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| The Process of Counseling with Couples and Families | |
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| Engaging: Becoming Empiricists Together | |
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| Assessing System Characteristics, Strengths, and Needs | |
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| Intervening: External Knowledge | |
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| Intervening: Internal Knowledge (Self and Other) | |
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| Intervening: Teaching Relationship Skills | |
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| Intervening: Cue Focus | |
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| Intervening: Contingency Focus | |
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| Assessing Effectiveness | |
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| Closure | |
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| Cautions, Concerns, and New Directions | |
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| Modernism, Positivism, and the Myth of Human Perfection | |
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| Hierarchy, Power, and Abuse | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Organization: Planning, Decision Making, and Action | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Functionalism and the Structural Metaphor | |
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| Development | |
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| Communication, Systems, and Structures | |
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| Ecosystemic, Evolutionary, and Chaos Theories | |
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| The Process of Counseling with Couples and Families | |
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| From Theory to Practice | |
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| Engaging: Contracting for Organizational Change | |
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| Conducting a Dynamic Assessment | |
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| Intervening: Direct, Compliance-Based Change Techniques | |
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| Intervening: Paradoxical or Defiance-Based Change Techniques | |
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| Assessing Effectiveness | |
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| Closure | |
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| Cautions and Concerns | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Narrative: Language, Culture, and Identity | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Internal and Interpersonal Language | |
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| Language Systems and Social Construction | |
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| Narrative | |
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| The Process of Counseling with Couples and Families | |
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| Entering a Language World | |
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| Entering a Unique Intersection of Discourses | |
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| Beginning a Dynamic Assessment Process | |
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| Intervening: Changing Representations | |
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| Intervening: Collaborative Retelling | |
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| Assessing Effectiveness | |
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| Closure | |
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| Cautions and Concerns | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Emotion: Regulation, Relationship, and Motivation | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Psychodynamic Discourse-Emotion as Struggle | |
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| Social Science Discourse-Emotion as a Variable | |
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| Biological Discourse-Emotion as Neurological Activity | |
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| The Process of Counseling with Couples and Families | |
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| Engaging: Creating an Emotion-Friendly Context | |
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| Assessment and Intervention: Early Stages | |
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| Intervention-Regulating Emotions | |
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| Interventions-Experiencing, Expressing, and Sharing Emotion | |
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| Intervention-Connecting | |
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| Assessing Effectiveness | |
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| Closure | |
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| Cautions and Concerns | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Spirituality: Purpose, Acceptance, and Meaning | |
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| Theory and Research | |
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| Contexts of Religion and Spirituality | |
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| Spirituality and Relational Well-Being | |
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| The Process of Counseling with Couples and Families | |
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| Engaging: Making Space for the Spirit | |
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| Conducting a Dynamic Assessment | |
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| Intervening: Instrumental, Ethnosensitivity | |
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| Intervening: Instrumental, Beliefs/Themes | |
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| Intervening: Instrumental, Religious/Spiritual Practices | |
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| Intervening: Metaphysical | |
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| Assessing Effectiveness | |
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| Closure | |
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| Cautions, Concerns, and New Directions | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Judgment, Action, and Personal Development in Family Counseling | |
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| Joining, Struggling Together, and Saying Goodbye | |
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| The Morgan-Thompsons: A Family in Crisis | |
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| Rick | |
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| Alice | |
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| Separation and Rapproachement | |
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| Engaging and Assessing | |
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| Making Sense of the Clients' Needs | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Crisis #1 | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| Building a Stepfamily | |
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| Bill | |
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| Teresa | |
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| Making Sense of the Clients' Needs | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Crisis #2 | |
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| Struggles over Control | |
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| Looking back | |
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| Enlarging the Family | |
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| Marriage and Economic Partnership | |
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| Making Sense of the Clients' Needs | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Crisis #3 | |
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| More Triangles | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| Pulling Together | |
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| Making Sense of the Clients' Needs | |
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| Crisis #4 | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Rebuilding | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Making Sense of the Clients' Needs | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Launching | |
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| Reviewing the Case | |
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| Multiple Strategies | |
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| Personal Challenges of Family Counseling | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Ethical Family Counselor | |
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| Ethical Decision-Making Processes | |
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| Principles and Values | |
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| Identifying Ethical Issues | |
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| Consultations, Codes, and Laws | |
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| Ethics Themes in Couple and Family Counseling | |
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| Competence | |
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| Systemic versus Individual Ethics | |
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| Gender and Sexuality | |
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| Race and Class | |
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| Power and Deception | |
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| Diagnosis | |
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| Consent | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Multiple Relationships | |
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| Psychotropic Medications | |
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| Records and Reimbursement | |
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| Identifying an Individual with Appropriate Needs | |
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| Assessing the Appropriateness of Couple or Family Treatment | |
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| Conducting Focused, Theory-Driven Treatment | |
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| Maintaining Family Oriented Progress Notes | |
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| Assessing Change | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Future Directions for Family Counseling | |
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| The Successes and Failures of Modernity | |
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| From Idealism to Realism | |
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| Moving Forward without a Map | |
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| Social Change | |
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| Political and Economic Instability | |
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| Emerging Ideas and Movements | |
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| Reconnecting with Each Other | |
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| Reconnecting with the Embodied Nature of Humanness | |
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| Reconnecting with the Natural World | |
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| Reconnecting with Culture | |
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| Accepting Contradiction and Complexity | |
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| Continued Evolution of the Profession | |
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| Further Integration | |
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| Diversification in Service Delivery | |
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| Suggested Individual and Group Activities | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| ACA Code of Ethics | |
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| AAMFT Code of Ethics | |
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| Ethical Code of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |