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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 | |