The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Marital and Family Therapy

by Hertlein, Katherine M., Ph.D.; Viers, Dawn, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780789022363
• ISBN10: 0789022362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Get a sneak peek” at clinical vignettes that demonstrate the power of creative interventions! Couples and families present unique challenges in therapy, and other books rarely illustrate the effectiveness of particular types of interventions on actual cases. The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook provides clinicians with a wide range of practical field-tested therapy activities and homework that are solidly grounded to each intervention's theoretical underpinning, then explores their effectiveness by briefly relating real-life cases. Continuing The Haworth Press Therapist's Notebook series, respected experts detail how to perform several creative interventions and then follow with insightful clinical vignettes to illustrate under what specific circumstances each particular approach is effective. Each chapter of The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Marital and Family Therapy has an objective statement to orient the reader to the homework, handout, or activity, followed by a rationale. Instructions explain how to perform the activity, followed by clinical case vignette, a section of contraindications, and a list of useful resources for both the practitioner and the client. Illustrations and appendixes also provide helpful guides for the therapist. The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Marital and Family Therapy gives you the tools for approaches such as: emotionally focused therapy symbolic-experiential therapy transgenerational theory solution-focused therapy experiential therapy and many others And some of the intervention techniques that are illustrated: the Metaphor of Gardens the Coming Clean Ritual creating rituals for couples coping with early pregnancy loss the Four C's of Parenting identifying family rules the Systemic Kvebaek Technique physical acting techniques the Feelings Game writing to combat adolescent silence in family therapy Family Stress Balls the Goodbye Book the Puppet Reflecting Team” Technique family-based school interventions and many more The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Marital and Family Therapy provides invaluable insight and vital clinical tools for creative couple and family intervention, perfect for adaptation by counselors, psychotherapists, practitioners in private practice, school systems, hospitals, government settings, homeless shelters, and not-for-profit agencies and counseling centers.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	xi
Contributors	xiii
Foreword	xix
Howard Protinsky
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
SECTION I: INTERVENTIONS FOR COUPLES
The Aesthetics of Communication	3	(6)
Wan-Juo Cheng
Rudy Buckman
Needful Things: Fostering Communication in Couples	9	(4)
Megan J. Murphy
Altering the Abyss: Externalizing Negative Interaction Cycles	13	(10)
Andrew S. Brimhall
Brandt C. Gardner
Money Talks	23	(12)
Margaret Shapiro
How Does Your Garden Grow?	35	(8)
Lisa Jameyfield
Cezanne Elias
Negotiating Couple Boundaries: The Metaphor of Gardens	43	(6)
Lee Williams
The Coming-Clean Ritual	49	(8)
Jon L. Winek
Patricia A. Craven
Creating Rituals for Couples Coping with Early Pregnancy Loss	57	(8)
R. Valorie Thomas
SECTION II: INTERVENTIONS FOR FAMILIES
The Four Cs of Parenting	65	(6)
Lee Williams
Erin Cushing
Identifying Family Rules	71	(8)
Devon J. Palmanteer
``Jump, Jump, King Me'': The Systemic Kveback Technique	79	(6)
Katherine M. Hertlein
Beginning Body Dialogue: An Introduction to Physical Acting Techniques in Family Counseling	85	(8)
Kevin A. Harris
Paul W. Wilson II
Z. Vance Jackson
Communicating with Children: Feelings Game	93	(8)
Shari Sias
Glenn W. Lambie
Name Your True Colors: A Card Game for Engaging Families in Problem-Solving Processes	101	(6)
Marta M. Miranda
Pam Black
Royal Flush	107	(8)
Katherine M. Hertlein
Put on a Happy Face	115	(6)
Dawn Viers
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick	121	(6)
Katherine M. Hertlein
Family Stress Balls	127	(4)
Dawn Viers
Up, Up, and Away in My Beautiful Balloon	131	(6)
Katherine M. Hertlein
Drawing the Family System	137	(4)
Christina Dust
Family Drawings with Abused Children: Allowing Room for Expression	141	(6)
Lenore M. McWey
Chicken Little Reconstructed: Trauma Resiliency	147	(6)
Wendy Danto Ellis
Muriel S. McClellan
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: The Good-Bye Book	153	(12)
Katherine M. Hertlein
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Writing to Combat Adolescent Silence in Family Therapy	165	(4)
Katherine M. Hertlein
Liddy B. Hope
Communicating with Teens: Movie Exchange	169	(8)
Glenn W. Lambie
Shari Sias
The ``Puppet Reflecting Team'' Technique	177	(8)
Darryl R. Haslam
``Eyes on the Prize'': Incorporating Cultural Knowledge into Goal Development for the African-American Family with a Child with Serious Emotional Disturbance	185	(10)
Nicole Lynn Lee
Toward a Culturally and Spiritually Consonant Treatment of Native Hawaiians: An Integration of Family Therapy and Ho' oponopono	195	(14)
Bill Forisha
Carol Wright
Margaret Tucker
SECTION III: INTERVENTIONS INCLUDING LARGER SYSTEMS
The Healing Journey: Celebrating the Past and Envisioning the Future	209	(8)
Chunhong Zhang
Abigail Tolhurst Christiansen
If You Work with Families, Get to School! Family-Based School Interventions	217	(6)
Laurie L. Williamson
Loss of a Client to Suicide: Suggestions for Before and After a Client Suicide	223	(10)
Charles F. Vorkoper
Judy Meade
Index	233