Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: CLINICAL PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS THERAPY

Introduction
1. Core Techniques in Family Therapy
David Seaburn, Judith Landau-Stanton, and Susan Horwitz

2. Collaborative Language Systems: Toward a PostModern Therapy
Harlene D. Anderson

3. Engaging the Family: An Integrative Approach
Timothy Weber and Felise Levine

4. Open-Ended Therapy: Termination in Marital and Family Therapy
Jay Lebow

PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES IN FAMILIES

Introduction

5. The Family Life Cycle: Phases, Stages, and Crises
Randy Gerson

6. Children and Family Therapy: Mainstream Approaches and the Special Case of the Multicrisis Poor
Patricia Minuchin

7. Systems-Oriented Therapy With Stepfamilies
James H. Bray

8. Interventions With Later Life Families
Cleveland G. Shields, Deborah A. King, and Lyman C. Wynne

PART III: ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY

Introduction

9. Martial and Family Assessment: A Multifaceted, Multilevel Approach
Douglas K. Snyder, Timothy A, Cavell, Robert W. Heffer, and Laurel F. Mangrum

10. The Evolution of Family-Based Psychopathology
David J. Miklowitz

11. Family Therapy Research
James Alexander and Cole Barton

12. Circumplex Model of Family Systems: Integrating Ethnic Diversity and Other Social Systems
Dean M. Corall and David H. Olson

PART IV: THERAPY WITH COUPLES

Introduction

13. A Family Systems Approach to Sex Therapy and Intimacy
David M. Schnarch

14. Treating Marital Infidelity
Don-David Lusterman

15. The Dynamics of Divorce Therapy
Florence W. Kaslow

16. Divorce Mediation: A System for Dealing With the Family in Transition
S. Richard Sauber, Stephen F. Beiner, and Gail S. Meddoff

PART V: GENDER AND ETHIC ISSUES

Introduction

17. Intergender Communication and Gender-Sensitive Therapy
Carol L. Philpot and Gary Brooks

18. Lesbian and Gay Family Psychology
Roy Scrivner and Natalie S. Eldridge

19. Ethnic Dimensions in Family Treatment
Joe Giordano and Mary Ann Carini-Giordano

20. Therapy With African American Inner-City Families
Nancy Boyd-Franklin

PART VI: MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Introduction

21. Medical Family Therapy With Somatizing Patients: The Co-creation of Therapeutic Stories
Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William Doherty

22. A Family Systems Approach to Coping With Cancer
David K. Wellisch

23. A Customized Approach to the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia
William N. Friedrich

24. Infertility and Pregnancy Loss: The Role of the Family Consultant
Susan G. Mikesell and Margaret Stohner

25. A Developmental Biopsychosocial Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Illness in Children and Adolescents
Beatrice L. Wood

PART VII: OTHER LARGER SYSTEMS AND CONTEXTS

Introduction

26. The Changing Family-Work System
Sylvia Shellenberger and Sandra S. Hoffman

27. Family-School Intervention
Marvin J. Fine

PART VIII: COERCION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Introduction

28. Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse: Multiple Systems Perspectives
Robert Geffner, Mary Jo Barrett, and B.B. Robbie Rossman

29. Cults: Implications for Family Therapists
Margaret Thaler Singer

30. Family Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
M. Duncan Stanton and Anthony W. Heath

PART IX: THE SELF OF THE SYSTEMS THERAPIST

Introduction

31. Family Therapy Supervision: Toward an Integrative Perspective
Douglas C. Breunlin, Cheryl Rampage, and Marina L. Eovaldi

32. Ethical Dilemmas in Change of Format and Live Supervision
Michael C. Gottlieb

33. System Traumatization: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Family Therapists
Charles R. Figley

PART X: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY AND SYSTEMS

Introduction

34. From Family Damage to Family Challenge
Froma Walsh

Author Index
Subject Index
List of Contributors
About the Editors

Total of 645 pages

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