Exposes destructive patterns of communication within familycultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogueamong family members.
* Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers theyplace in the way of healthy communication, and adopt moreconstructive alternatives
* Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue betweentherapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationshipand facilitating family interaction
* Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement,defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentanglingmarital problems and more
* Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in whichmany family therapists want to improve their skills but havestruggled to find a text to guide them in doing so
Daniela Kramer-Moore
Couples & Family Clinical Psychology Klinische Psychologie / Familien u. Paare Psychologie Psychology
"Although the title might suggest a relatively narrow targetaudience of family therapists, I feel certain that the fascinatingideas addressed here, coupled with the accessible style, would alsospeak to the experienced therapist, the trainee and the lay readeralike. By focusing on what is actually said in spousal, sibling andparental relationships, the authors invite the reader to reflect onthe powerful and often destructive myths, narratives, schemas- call them what you will - that underpin familysystems." (Therapy Today, 1 September 2012)
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