101 More Interventions in Family Therapy

by Nelson, Thorana Strever; Trepper, Terry S.

• ISBN13: 9780789000583
• ISBN10: 078900058X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Inside 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll discover many revolutionary and flexible strategies for family counseling intervention that you can tailor, amend, and apply in your own practice. Designed to appeal to professionals of beginning, intermediate, or advanced level status, 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy caters to an even broader range of ethnic, racial, gender, and class contexts than did its well-received predecessor, 101 Interventions in Family Therapy. You'll also find that this volume encompasses a wider variety of family therapy orientations, including strategic, behavioral, family of origin, solution-focused, and narrative. In 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll have at your fingertips a collection of favorite, tried-and-true interventions compiled, revised, and delivered to you by the professionals who use them--the clinicians themselves. You'll gain valuable insight into: effective and useful assessment strategies therapy that addresses school and career problems questions to use in solution-focused therapy questions to use in narrative therapy ideas for resolving intergenerational issues Too often, the in-the-trenches accounts you need to help add variety and a high success rate to your own practice come to you piecemeal in journals or newsletters. But in 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll find 101 handy, easy-to-read, and fun ways to modify your own therapeutic styles for a truly diverse variety of clientele and settings right where you want them--in one volume, in one place. Even after a few chapters, you'll discover 101 reasons to be happy with the prospect of improving your practice. Specifically, some of the interesting tips and techniques you'll read about include: applying theater techniques to family therapy using an alarm clock and rubber band as props in clinical practice with children, couples, and families utilizing the "play baby" intervention to coach parents on ways to address their child(ren)'s concerns adopting a "Columbo therapy" approach--one in which the therapist acts confused and asks questions out of a genuine curiosity about the client's experience--to take a one-down position with clients creating a safe space in therapy and helping clients transfer it into their lives using homework to increase the likelihood of producing desired therapeutic outcomes

Table of Contents

About the Editors	xvii	(2)
Contributors	xix	(10)
Preface	xxix
1. Don't Just Do Something, Stand There	1	(4)
Mark B. White
2. Mirroring Movement for Increasing Family Cooperation	5	(4)
Daniel J. Wiener
3. Seeing the Obvious: Data Collection in Therapy	9	(4)
Joellyn L. Ross
4. Of Clocks and Rubber Bands: On the Use of Props in Family Therapy	13	(5)
Luciano L'Abate
5. Know the Enemy's Strategies and You Will Know Your Own Power	18	(3)
Joellyn L. Ross
6. The Race Is On! A Group Contingency Program to Reduce Sibling Aggression	21	(6)
Kristin E. Robinson
7. Attitude as Intervention	27	(6)
William C. Madsen
8. Sculpting Stepfamily Structure	33	(3)
Toni S. Zimmerman
9. Taped Supervision as a Reflecting Team	36	(5)
Richard J. Bischoff
10. Becoming the "Alien" Other	41	(4)
Maryhelen Snyder
11. Playing Baby	45	(4)
Ellen F. Wachtel
12. Competing Voices: A Narrative Intervention	49	(3)
Gabrielle Carey
13. Start with Meditation	52	(5)
Linda G. Bell
14. Emotional Restructuring: Re-Romancing the Marital Relationship	57	(4)
Thomas W. Roberts
15. It's Bigger Than Both of Us	61	(6)
Carol L. Philpot
16. Joining with Jenga: An Intervention for Building Trust with Stepfamilies	67	(3)
Wanda Clark
17. Crisis Intervention with Families: A One-Down Position	70	(3)
Peter J. Jankowski
18. Columbo Therapy as One-Down Positioning with Families	73	(4)
Peter J. Jankowski
19. Seeing Change When Clients Don't	77	(3)
G. Alan Willard
20. Making the Genogram Solution Based	80	(7)
Bruce P. Kuehl
Charles P. Barnard
Thorana S. Nelson
21. From Alienation to Collaboration: Three Techniques for Building Alliances with Adolescents in Family Therapy	87	(9)
Gary M. Diamond
Howard A. Liddle
22. What I Needed versus What I Got: Giving Clients Permission to Grieve	96	(4)
Tina M. Timm
23. Starting with the Familiar: Working with "Difficult" Clients	100	(4)
Diane R. Gehart-Brooks
24. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Use of Family Photographs to Promote Parental Nurturance in Family Therapy with Adolescents	104	(5)
Susan K. Mackey
25. A Fairy-Tale Ending	109	(4)
Sharon A. Deacon
26. The Wall of Defenses	113	(5)
Sharon A. Deacon
27. Single Women and the Grief Circle	118	(6)
Karen G. Lewis
28. Slaying the Wild Things	124	(4)
Debra W. Smith
29. The Nightmare Question: Problem Talk in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Alcoholics and Their Families	128	(6)
Norman H. Reuss
30. I Rewrite with a Little Help from My Friends	134	(6)
Frank N. Thomas
31. Time and Couples, Part I: The Decompression Chamber	140	(5)
Peter Fraenkel
32. Time and Couples, Part II: The Sixty-Second Pleasure Point	145	(5)
Peter Fraenkel
33. Debunking Addictive Religious Belief Systems in Marital Therapy	150	(4)
Thomas W. Roberts
34. Ceremony to Memorialize Old Hurts	154	(5)
Stephanie Brooks
35. Strategic Journaling	159	(3)
Mary E. Dankoski
36. A Solution-Focused Guessing Game for Children	162	(4)
Mary E. Dankoski
37. The Problem Box Ritual: Helping Families Prepare for Remarriage	166	(5)
Israela Meyerstein
38. Using Batacca Sticks in Couples Therapy	171	(3)
Geoffrey L. Smith
Maureen Semans
39. Necessity's Way	174	(7)
Celia B. Ferguson
Beverly McKee
S. Carolyn Patton
40. Couples Group Psychotherapy with HIV-Affected Gay Men	181	(7)
David W. Purcell
Nadine J. Kaslow
41. The Grid	188	(2)
Phoebe S. Prosky
42. Revisiting the Subject of Emotional Highs and Lows: Two Interventions	190	(4)
Phoebe S. Prosky
Patricia M. Dyer
43. Changing Hats During Therapeutic Impasses	194	(4)
Judith Maria Bermudez
44. Reciprocal Double Binds, Amplification of Constructions of Reality, and Change in a Training Context	198	(6)
Mony Elkaim
45. The Play Is the Thing: Using Self-Constructed Board Games in Family Therapy	204	(6)
Craig W. Smith
Sharon G. Renter
46. Therapists Must Be EXPLISSIT	210	(4)
Robert F. Stahmann
47. The Relapse Is Your Friend	214	(4)
Joseph L. Wetchler
Debra L. Del Vecchio
48. Sculptural Metaphors to Create Discontinuity and Novelty in Family Therapy	218	(5)
Israela Meyerstein
49. A Therapeutic Remarriage Ritual	223	(7)
Florence W. Kaslow
50. The Complaint Technique	230	(3)
Brenda Carroll
51. "Time Out"-Calming the Chaos	233	(9)
James Verser
52. An Empirically Driven Marital Therapy Intervention	242	(7)
Stephanie A. Ross
Ana Ulloa Estrada
53. Symbols in Relationships	249	(3)
Don G. Brown
54. Use of Structural Family Therapy to Facilitate Adjustment Among Adolescent Leukemia Patients	252	(5)
Sharon Z. Johnson
Ana Ulloa Estrada
55. "We versus It"	257	(6)
Jan Osborn
56. The Many Colors of Divorce	263	(3)
Pasha D. Blundo
57. On a Scale from One to Ten	266	(3)
Shannon B. Dermer
58. Genograms in a Multicultural Perspective	269	(7)
Ana Ulloa Estrada
Penny Haney
59. Using Art to Aid the Process of Externalization	276	(4)
Thomas D. Carlson
60. The "What Are You Prepared to Do?" Question	280	(5)
David Pearson
61. Race in Family Therapy: Unnoticeable or Relevant?	285	(6)
Denise D. Daniels
62. The Extramarital Affair: Honesty and Deconstructive Questioning	291	(6)
Peter Lehmann
Donald K. Granvold
63. Three Excellent Agreements: Wynona and the Eighteen-Wheeler	297	(4)
Maria T. Flores
64. Functions of Behavior in the Adolescent Family	301	(4)
Scot M. Allgood
65. Together and Apart: Daily Rituals in Divorced and Remarried Families	305	(7)
Janine Roberts
66. Trance and Transformation: Intervention with Verbally Combative Couples	312	(6)
D. Kim Openshaw
67. Many Small Steps Instead of One Intervention	318	(7)
Tom Andersen
68. Metacommunication and Role Reversal as an Intervention	325	(4)
Lee N. Johnson
Kim Hander
69. Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones: The Verbally Abusive Child	329	(7)
Allison Waterworth
Maureen L. Minarik
Carol L. Philpot
70. Binuclear Family Therapy: Conflict Reduction Through Agreeing to Disagree	336	(5)
Donald K. Granvold
71. The Use of Rogerian Techniques in Marital Therapy	341	(5)
David L. Fenell
72. If You Can't Say Something Nice	346	(10)
David L. Kearns
73. Seeing the Child in You	356	(4)
Wendy Wen-Yi Shieh
74. A Picture of Health: Using Guided Imagery to Facilitate Differentiation	360	(8)
Catherine E. Ford Sori
Fred P. Piercy
Carolyn Tubbs
75. It's Never Too Late to Have a Good Childhood: Reworking at the Source	368	(8)
Beth M. Erickson
76. The Typical Day Interview: A Play Therapy Intervention	376	(4)
Geoffrey L. Smith
77. Peace at Any Price	380	(5)
Young Hee Chang
78. Teaching Metaphors	385	(4)
Betty Vos
79. Fostering Accountability: A Reconstructive Dialogue with a Couple with a History of Violence	389	(8)
Yvette G. Flores-Ortiz
80. Carols in the Trenches	397	(5)
Gary C. Dumbrill
81. We Are Where We Live	402	(4)
Jan Nealer
82. Creating a Safe Space in Therapy	406	(5)
Volker Thomas
83. Family Assessment Using Subjective Genograms	411	(4)
Daniel J. Wiener
84. The Marital Conference	415	(5)
Peter E. Maynard
Jerome F. Adams
85. Policymaking Within Families: A Clinical Example of Family Process and Governance	420	(6)
Kyle N. Weir
86. Mapping Multiplicity: An Application of the Internal Family Systems Model	426	(5)
Katherine J. Michelson
87. Opening Space and the Two-Story Technique	431	(6)
Adam L. Hill
Catherine R. Scanlon
88. Using Art to Externalize and Tame Tempers	437	(3)
Rudy Buckman
89. Authoring Success Through Competency-Immersed Therapy	440	(6)
Peter A. Kahle
John M. Robbins
90. Finding the Horseshoe Nail	446	(3)
Thorana S. Nelson
91. Reconnecting Through Touch	449	(8)
Volker Thomas
92. The Parents' Closet: A Family Therapy Approach for "Coming to Acceptance" of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Children	457	(6)
Ozlem Camli
Laura M.I. Saunders
93. Respecting the Purpose of the Old Pattern and the New Pattern	463	(4)
Joseph L. Wetchler
94. Notice the Difference	467	(4)
Victor H. Nelson
95. Mad About You	471	(4)
Richard B. Smith
96. Increasing Homework Compliance: The SEA Method, or Effective Use of the 167 "Nontherapy" Hours of a Week	475	(7)
D. Kim Openshaw
97. A Solution-Focused Approach to Physical Abuse	482	(5)
Jacqueline Corcoran
Cynthia Franklin
98. An Older Child or a Young Adult? An Intervention Based on the Integrated Model	487	(3)
Victor H. Nelson
99. Balloon Bouquets	490	(3)
Evan F. Hanson
100. Community Service Intervention	493	(5)
Jon L. Winek
101. Training in Family Therapy	498	(5)
Shannon B. Dermer
Topical Index	503