Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach

by McDaniel, Susan H.; Lusterman, Don-David; Philpot, Carol L.

• ISBN13: 9781557987495
• ISBN10: 1557987491
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Univ. of Rochester, NY. Compilation of couple and family case examples. Focuses on a number of factors underrepresented in the therapy literature but are integral to family functioning: religion, ethnicity, culture, migration, work, physical health, disability, and such. For clinicians treating couples and families.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Evan Imber-Black
Preface	xv
Introduction to Integrative Ecosystemic Family Therapy	3	(18)
Susan H. McDaniel
Don-David Lusterman
Carol L. Philpot
PART I: COUPLES
Conducting Integrative Therapy Over Time: A Case Example of Open-Ended Therapy	21	(12)
Jay Lebow
The Tapestry of Couple Therapy: Interweaving Theory, Assessment, and Intervention	33	(10)
Douglas K. Snyder
Jebber J. Cozzi
Jami Grich
Michael C. Luebbert
The Therapist in the Crucible: Early Developments in a New Paradigm of Sexual and Marital Therapy	43	(14)
David Schnarch
When Roads Diverge: A Case Study With a Gay Male Couple	57	(12)
Thomas Russell
``Our Company Is Downsizing'': Couple and Individual Therapy for Work-Related and Systems Issues	69	(18)
Sylvia Shellenberger
Opportunities for Clarity, Understanding, and Choice: The Practice of Divorce Mediation	87	(16)
Carl D. Schneider
Dana E. O'Brien
PART II: FAMILIES IN TRANSITION
A Baby, Maybe: Crossing the Parenthood Threshold	103	(8)
Mary-Joan Gerson
Dreams Now and Then: Conversations About a Family's Struggles From a Collaborative Language Systems Approach	111	(16)
Harlene Anderson
Therapy With Stepfamilies: A Developmental Systems Approach	127	(14)
James H. Bray
Widening the Lens: Engaging a Family in Transition	141	(16)
Timothy T. Weber
The Case of the ``Expendable'' Elder: Family Therapy With an Older Depressed Man	157	(14)
Deborah A. King
PART III: CULTURE, RELIGION, SOCIAL CLASS, AND ETHNICITY
Taking Sides: A White Intern Encounters an African American Family	171	(8)
Barry Jacobs
Using Contradiction: Family Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse	179	(12)
Wendy Greenspun
The Misfit: A Deaf Adolecent Struggles for Meaning	191	(14)
Robert Q Pollard, Jr.
Natalie C. Rinker
Grief and Cultural Transition: A Journey Out of Despair	205	(12)
Susan H. Horwitz
Religious and Cultural Issues in Ecosystemic Therapy: A Therapist in the Flow	217	(12)
Don-David Lusterman
Steps Toward a Culture and Migration Dialogue: Developing a Framework for Therapy With Immigrant Families	229	(16)
Jaime E. Inclan
PART IV: GENDER
Integrating Gender and Family Systems Theories: The ``Both/And'' Approach to Treating a Postmodern Couple	245	(8)
Ronald F. Levant
Louise B. Silverstein
Someday My Prince Will Come	253	(12)
Carol L. Philpot
Developing Gender Awareness: When Therapist Growth Promotes Family Growht	265	(10)
Gary R. Brooks
Rediscovery of Belovedness	275	(12)
Becky Butler
PART V: FAMILIES COPING WITH PHYSICAL ILLNESS
``We're at the Breaking Point'': Family Distress and Competence in Serious Childhood Illness	287	(12)
Anne E. Kazak
A Sneaky Teenager With Diabetes in Context: Stretching Minuchin's Psychosomatic Model	299	(10)
Thomas C. Todd
Her Right Foot: Pain, Integration, and the Biopsychosocial Model	309	(8)
David B. Seaburn
Honoring the Integration of Mind and Body: A Patient With Chronic Pain	317	(6)
Jeri Hepworth
Differentiation Before Death: Medical Family Therapy for a Woman With End-Stage Crohn's Disease and Her Son	323	(14)
Susan H. McDaniel
Jennifer L. Harkness
Ronald M. Epstein
HIV/AIDS, Families, and the Wider Caregiving System	337	(12)
Robert Bor
Riva Miller
PART VI: FAMILIES COPING WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS
From Three Languages to One: Integrating Individual, Family, and Biological Perspectives in the Treatment of Affective Disorders	349	(10)
David A. Moltz
Integrating Psychiatric Illness Into Healthy Family Functioning: The Family Psychoeducational Treatment of a Patient With Bipolar Disorder	359	(14)
Teresa L. Simoneau
David J. Miklowitz
The Consequences of Caring: Mutual Healing of Family and Therapists Following a Suicide	373	(14)
Nadine J. Kaslow
Sari Gilman Aronson
PART VII: SUPERVISION
Integrative Supervision: A Metaframeworks Perspective	387	(8)
Catherine Weigel Foy
Douglas C. Breunlin
Using the Multisystems Model With an African American Family: Cross-Racial Therapy and Supervision	395	(6)
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Author Index	401	(4)
Subject Index	405	(6)
About the Editors	411