101 More Interventions in Family Therapy

by Nelson, Thorana Strever; Trepper, Terry S.

• ISBN13: 9780789005700
• ISBN10: 0789005700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A collection of favorite tried and true interventions, 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy includes interventions that apply to a wide variety of situations and clientele--individuals, couples, and families. Similar to the first book, 101 Interventions in Family Therapy, interventions related to family configurations, treatment settings, and problem areas, as well as those for specific situations, are explored. In addition, this new volume features interventions from a wide variety of family therapy orientations, including strategic, behavioral, family of origin, and solution focused; different problem issues, client/family types, and clinician approaches; and interventions especially suited to a variety of ethnic, racial, gender, and class contexts. The interventions in this volume are also indexed, making it easy for you to find specifics.

Table of Contents

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