Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Interpersonal/Humanistic/Existential

by Kaslow, Florence W.; Massey, Robert F.; Massey, Sharon Davis

• ISBN13: 9780471653288
• ISBN10: 0471653284
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Now available in paperback.In this volume, theoretical frames, modalities, and applications are examined for Interpersonal/Humanistic/Existential psychotherapy. Topics range from "Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapy with Children" to "Spiritually Sensitive Therapy" and "Existential Treatment with HIV/AIDS clients."

Author Biography

Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, is director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute and president of the Kaslow Associates in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She is also a visiting professor of medical psychology in psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center (Durham, North Carolina) and a visiting professor of psychology at Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Kaslow is editor or author of 22 books, over 50 book chapters, and more than 160 articles in the professional literature.

Robert F. Massey, PhD, is a professor and director of the Marriage and Family MS, EdS, and PhD programs in the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is an approved supervisor in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and a certified transactional analyst. He writes on and researches integrative systems thinking, couple and family relationships, personality theories, and spirituality in contexts.

Sharon Davis Massey, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an approve supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She supervises the clinical work of university students and is an adjunct professor in the marriage and family programs at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. Her professional interests center around the development of humans within their evolving contexts, supervision from an interpersonal-systemic frame of reference, and human ways to knowing.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Psychotherapy with Children

Structural Family Therapy: An Elaboration of Theory and Practice

The Central Role of Culture: Working with Asian Children and Families

Play in Therapy with Abused Children

Existential/Experiential Approaches to Child and Family Psychotherapy

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Play Therapy with Maltreated Children

Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Young Adults

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Adolescents

An Integrative Approach to Assessment and Intervention with Adolescents of Color

Adlerian Therapy: A Century of Tradition and Research

School-Based Community Family Therapy for Adolescents at Risk

Psychotherapy with Adults

A Relational-Cultural Perspective in Therapy

Existential/Humanistic Psychotherapy

Spiritually-Sensitive Psychotherapy

Existential Treatment with HIV/AIDS Clients

Logotherapy

Psychotherapy with Families and Couples

Couple Therapy as Transforming Process: Reflections on Couples Stories

Existential Dilemmas and Skill Building in Couple Therapy

Resilience and Human Rights Activism in Womena's Life Stories

Redecision Family Therapy

Contextual Therapy

Systems as Interconnecting Social-Psychological Processes: Existential Foundations of Families

Group Psychotherapy

Psychodrama

Transactional Analysis

Body-Centered Psychotherapy

Biopsychosocial and Spiritual Treatment of Trauma

Special Topics

International Perspectives on Professional Ethics

An Interpersonal-Systemic and Developmental Approach to Supervision

Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Existential Psychotherapies: Review and Synthesis

Author Index

Subject Index

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