Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Integrative Ecosystemic Family Therapy
   -- Susan H. McDaniel, Don-David Lusterman, and Carol L. Philpot
2. Conducting Integrative Therapy Over Time: A Case Example of Open Ended Therapy
   -- Jay LeBow
3. The Tapestry of Couple Therapy: Interweaving Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
   -- Douglas K. Snyder, Jebber J. Cozzi, Jami G. Stevens, and Michael C. Luebbert
4. Therapist in the Crucible: Early Developments in a New Paradigm of Sexual and Marital Therapy
   -- David Schnarch
5. When Roads Diverge: A Case Study with a Gay Male Couple
   -- Thomas Russell
6. "Our Company Is Downsizing": Couple and Individual Therapy for Work Related and Systems Issues
   -- Sylvia Shellenberger
7. Opportunities for Clarity, Understanding, and Choice: The Practice of Divorce Mediation
   -- Carl D. Schneider and Dana E. O'Brien
8. A Baby, Maybe: Crossing the Parenthood Threshold
   -- Mary-Joan Gerson
9. Dreams Now and Then: Conversations About a Family's Struggle From a Collaborative Language Systems Approach
   -- Harlene Anderson
10. Therapy With Stepfamilies: A Developmental Systems Approach
    -- James H. Bray
11. Widening the Lens: Engaging a Family in Transition
    -- Timothy T. Weber
12. The Case of the "Expendable" Elder: Family Therapy With an Older Depressed Man
    -- Deborah A. King
13. Taking Sides: A White Intern Encounters an African-American Family
    -- Barry Jacobs
14. Embracing Contradiction: Family Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
    -- Wendy Greenspun
15. The Misfit: A Deaf Adolescent Struggles for Meaning
    -- Robert Q. Pollard, Jr. and Natalie C. Rinker
16. Grief and Cultural Transition: A Journey Out of Despair
    -- Susan H. Horwitz
17. A Therapist in the Flow: Evolution of an Ecosystemic Attitude
    -- Don-David Lusterman
18. Step Toward Culture and Migration Dialogue: Developing a Framework for Therapy with Immigrant Families
    -- Jaime E. Inclan
19. Integrating Gender and Family Systems Theories: The "Both/And" Approach to Treating a Post-Modern Couple
    -- Ronald F. Levant and Louise B. Silverstein
20. Someday My Prince Will Come
    -- Carol L. Philpot
21. Developing Gender Awareness: When Therapist Groth Promotes Family Growth
    -- Gary R. Brooks
22. Rediscovery of Belovedness
    -- Becky Butler
23. We're at the Breaking Point: Family Distress and Competence in Serious Childhood Illness
    -- Anne E. Kazak
24. A Sneaky Teenaged Diabetic in Context: Stretching Minuchin's Psychosomatic Model
    -- Thomas C. Todd
25. Her Right Foot: Pain, Integration, and the Biopsychosocial Model
    -- David B. Seaburn
26. Honoring the Integration of Mind and Body: A Patient With Chronic Pain
    -- Jeri Hepworth
27. Differentiation Before Death: Medical Family Therapy for a Woman with End-Stage Crohn's disease and Her Son
    -- Susan H. McDaniel, Jennifer L. Harkness, and Ronald M. Epstein
28. HIV/AIDS Families and the Wider Care-Giving System
    -- Robert Bor and Riva Miller
29. From Three Languages to One: Integrating Individual, Family, and Biological Perspectives in the Treatment of Affective Disorders
    -- David A. Moltz
30. Integrating Psychiatric Illness Into Healthy Family Functioning: The Family Psychoeducational Treatment of a Patient With Bipolar Disorder
    -- Teresa L. Simoneau and David J. Miklowitz
31. The Consequences of Caring: Mutual Healing of Family and Therapists Following a Suicide
    -- Nadine J. Kaslow and Sari Gilman Aronson
32. Integrative Supervision: A Metaframeworks Perspective
    -- Catherine Weigel Foy and Douglas Breunlin
33. Using the Multisystems With an African-American Family: Cross Racial Therapy and Supervision
    -- Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Total of 376 pages

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