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| Sowing the Seeds | |
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| Professional Issues and Ethics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Maintaining Confidentiality | |
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| Responding to Life-Threatening Behaviors | |
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| Considering Client Expectations | |
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| Supervision and Continuing Education | |
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| A Common Thread | |
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| Let the Clients Be the Guide | |
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| Systemic Family Therapy: An Evolving Process | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Profession of Family Therapy | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Diversity: Where Do You Stand? | |
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| Cultural and Racial Diversity: A Nation of Immigrants | |
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| The Therapist and Personal Bias | |
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| The 2000 Census | |
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| Immigration: Acculturation and Assimilation | |
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| Joining with a Client's Background | |
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| Class: A Troublesome Distinction | |
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| Accepting Difference Family Norms | |
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| Respecting Differences | |
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| Culture and Intergenerational Issues | |
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| Therapeutic Issues | |
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| Postmodern Issues with Medical Labels | |
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| Challenging Traditional Roles | |
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| Gender Bias and Psychotherapy | |
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| Change Is in Process | |
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| Sexual Orientation Issues | |
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| People with Disabilities | |
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| Our Aging Population | |
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| Other Social Concerns | |
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| Beware of Generalizations! | |
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| How to Help | |
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| Learn, Learn, Learn | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Founding Roots of Systemic Theory | |
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| A New Systemic Perspective About Mental Health | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| An Overview of the Development of Systemic Thinking | |
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| From Individual to Family: Multidisciplinary Changes | |
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| Founding Principles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Elements of the Process of Change | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Why Change? | |
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| Elements of Change | |
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| The Certainty of Change | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| Systemic Branches | |
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| Intergenerational and Psychoanalytically Based Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| The Influence of the Family of Origin | |
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| Outline of Family Life-Cycle Stages | |
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| Bowen Family Systems Theory and Therapy | |
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| Bowenian Theory: Founding Principles | |
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| Suggested Genogram Questions | |
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| Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and Contextual Therapy | |
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| Feminist Family Therapy: An Activist Approach | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Experiential Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Experiential Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Virginia Satir | |
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| Carl Whitaker | |
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| Walter Kempler | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Structural Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Structural Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Salvador Minuchin: From Psychiatry to Family Structure | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Strategic Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Haley: Power and Control | |
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| Cloe Madanes: Love and Violence | |
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| The Milan Group | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Behavioral Couples/Family Theory and Therapy | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Overview of Learning Theories | |
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| Cognitive/Behavioral Family Therapy | |
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| Sex Therapy | |
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| Psychoeducational Therapy | |
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| Couples/Marital Theory and Therapy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Language as Reality | |
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| Postmodern, Social Constructionism | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| From Cybernetics to Cybernetics of Cybernetics | |
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| Postmodern, Social Constructivist Ideas Consider Larger Systems | |
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| Participate with the Client | |
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| Social Reality--A Function of One's Belief System | |
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| Language as Central to How We Know What We Know | |
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| Modern and Postmodern Tensions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Solution Focused Theory and Therapy | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Roots and Development of Solution Focused Theory | |
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| An Optimistic Approach to Therapy | |
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| Problems Maintained by "More of the Same" | |
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| Basic Questions for the Solution Focused Therapist | |
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| Mainstays of the Solution Focused Approach | |
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| Goals of Therapy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Collaborative Therapies | |
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| Key Theorists | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Homeostasis Seen as Limiting | |
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| Language Systems and Therapy | |
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| Narrative Therapy | |
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| Keeney's Improvisational Therapy | |
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| The Reflecting Team | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experiential Activities | |
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| References | |
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| Research Perspectives | |
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| How Effective Is Couple and Family Therapy? | |
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| Terms to Know | |
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| Where Is the Field of Family Therapy Going Today? | |
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| Seeking Common Factors That Promote Change | |
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| Common Factors in Psychotherapy | |
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| The Future of Psychotherapy | |
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| Implications for the Profession of Couple and Family Therapy | |
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| Quantitative and Qualitative Research--A Both/And Process | |
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| Reviewing and Assessing Research on Couple and Family Therapy | |
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| Efficacy of Couple and Family Therapy | |
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| Meta-Analysis of Existing Research | |
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| Directions in Family Therapy Research and Family Therapy | |
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| Clinicians as Researchers | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Theories--How Similar or Different Are They? | |
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| Resources | |
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| Note from the Author | |
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| Index | |