By Collie Wyatt Conoley, Jane Close Conoley
ISBN-10: 047026277X
ISBN-13: 9780470262771
ISBN-10: 0470473843
ISBN-13: 9780470473849
An asserting consultant equipping family members therapists to successfully comprise optimistic psychology inside their practicesThe subsequent step within the evolution of family members remedy, optimistic psychology has enabled family members therapists to assist families—whatever their form—to construct upon their strengths, triumph over disorder, and stream to new degrees of concord and thriving. confident Psychology and family members remedy: artistic ideas and functional instruments for steering swap and adorning development integrates optimistic psychology into conventional family members remedy, featuring therapists with best-practice knowledge and evidence-based medical instruments to help?turn dysfunctional or households into flourishing households. Contributing a special point of view to the sector that mixes the examine, perform, and conception linked to the newest in confident psychology and relations treatment, confident Psychology and kinfolk treatment equips therapists to domesticate virtues, corresponding to empathy, kindness, accountability, involvement, social justice, paintings ethic, teamwork, goal, and volunteerism. packed with homework assignments and routines that combine confident thoughts and interventions, this booklet establishes and promotes the relations because the uncomplicated construction block of the person and the neighborhood. supplying therapists with out past advent to confident psychology a superb origin, this article contains crucial dialogue of kinfolk interventions and methods that display optimistic relations remedy, in addition to case examples that carry the thoughts coated to lifestyles in genuine and available situations. Authors Collie Conoley and Jane shut Conoley draw from their years of expertise operating with households to provide an built-in, practical?approach that enables kinfolk therapists to make use of optimistic psychology rules successfully inside of their practices.
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THERAPIST: My approach to family therapy is to focus upon what you want as a family and to use your family’s strengths to accomplish those goals. I know that you want the problem to go away, but what we have discovered is that it is vital to first discover how you want your family to be. I know you want to move away from the problem, but all of us will E1C02_1 01/27/2009 36 36 TECHNIQUES IN POSITIVE FAMILY THERAPY need to know what direction you want to move in. My job will be to help you use your strengths to accomplish those goals.
1987; Scheel, 1994). Reintroducing ideas back into the family prompts the family to add to the perspective. Circular questions also support neutrality by including all the perspectives in the family. No perspective should attain an ability to silence the others. Perspectives that are banished from the family banish the person as well. Excluding a member should be a conscious, carefully considered step for a family. A circular question transforms an individual’s statement into a more systemic influence by the circular question’s content and the inclusion of other family members.
Not every person has to speak the same amount. For example, in most families the parents feel primarily responsible for providing the information in the first session and so they should be given the first opportunity to answer this question. In fact, most family cultures support parental leadership in setting the direction for the family and so should be honored by the therapist. Therefore, although therapists listen respectfully to the problems described by family members, they show just enough interest to be polite and then move the person to describe his or her hopes for the therapy experience.