2nd Edition
A Practical Guide to Family Therapy Structured Guidelines and Key Skills
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 begins with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and use of self as a foundation, and from there provides the reader with practical, skill-oriented guidelines for working with families. From the first session to addressing the complexities of separated parents, parent child relational breaches, family of origin issues, wider systems, managing emotions, diversity and much more, the book takes the reader through core practices that will become essential skills for family work.
Lead by an expert team committed to innovative and contextual practice, this book is for experienced clinicians who want to learn to work with families and for beginning therapists to learn from a structured approach to developing complex skills.
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, M.Litt, has taught and supervised family therapists for over 30 years in post graduate 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.
