2nd Edition

A Practical Guide to Family Therapy Structured Guidelines and Key Skills

Edited By Andrew Wallis, Kerrie James, Paul Rhodes Copyright 2024
314 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families. This second edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters which cover working with First Nations Families, diversity and family therapy, understanding emotions, and dialogical reflective processes. The book... Read more

Introduction

 

1.      The Therapeutic Relationship and Use of Self

Carmel Flaskas

 

2.      Structured Guidelines for the First Session of Post-Milan Systemic Family Therapy

Andrew Wallis and Paul Rhodes

 

3.      Deviation Amplifying: The Second Session

Paul Rhodes and Andrew Wallis

 

4.      Establishing Parent Hierarchy: An Integration of Milan Systemic and Structural Family Therapy

Kerrie James and Laurie MacKinnon

 

5.      Working with abuse in families: The challenge of establishing safety while fostering therapeutic relationships

Anne Welfare and Robyn Elliot

 

6.      Including Children in Family Therapy

Catherine Sanders

 

7.      Improving Relationship Security for Distressed Adolescents

Suzanne Levy, Torrey A. Creed and Guy Diamond

 

8.      Family Therapy with Adolescents: Key Ideas and Their Application

David Allan and Lyndal Power

 

9.      The Why and How of Separate Parent Sessions in Family Therapy

Kerrie James and Laurie MacKinnon

 

10.  Family of Origin Session: Why, When, and How

Hugh Crago

 

11.  Embracing Differences: Transforming Family Therapy Through Diversity and Inclusion

Kerrie James and Jane Mowll

 

12.  Working with Australian First Nation Families

Banu Moloney, Robyne Latham and Lawrence Moloney

 

13.  Dialogical Reflecting Processes and Practices in Family Therapy

Judith M. Brown and Lisa Dawson

 

14.  The Final Session

Roxanne Garvan and Paul Rhodes

Biography

Andrew Wallis is a clinical social worker and systemic family therapist. He has worked with adolescents and their families for more than 30 years. Andrew’s clinical and research work at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has primarily focused on family therapy approaches for eating disorders, clinical supervision, and teaching.

Kerrie James, MSW, MLitt, has taught and supervised family therapists for over 30 years in postgraduate programs at Relationships Australia and the University of New South Wales Sydney. Her research and publications have focused on the intersections between family therapy, gender, family violence, and trauma.

Paul Rhodes is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney with a wide range of clinical and research interests including family therapy, ecological emotions and the climate crisis, post-structural and New Materialist research methods, and the decolonisation of psychology.