International Family Systems Therapy Global Perspectives on the Healing Power of Families

PART 1

Get Rid of Labels and Pills: Empowering Children as an Invaluable Resource

1.                   From Child-problems to Family Resources: A Healing Process

by Maurizio Andolfi 

2.                   Amplifying Children’s Voices: Empowering Distressed Children as Family Healers

by Wai Yung Lee

3.                  Imagination and Creativity in Family Therapy with Children Labelled with Autism Spectrum Disorder

by Michele Zappella

4.                  Exploring the Psychological Landscape of Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Family Approach

by Tiziana Bufacchi

5.                  The Community Project in the Schools of the Family Institute of Porto Alegre, Brazil: Description and Purpose

by José Ovídio Copstein Waldemar (2), Breno Irigoyen de Freitas, Klaus Iglesias Hensel, & Lisiane Milhoranza Rech

6.                  “Tell me a Story…mine!”: Children and Parents Talk about Adoption

by Alessandra Santona and Laura Gorla

Part 2 

Adolescents at High Risk: How to Listen to Their Voice

7.                  The Silent Adolescent in the Family Therapy Session

by Peter Rober

8.                 Confrontative Intervention in Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

by Noga Nabarro

9.                  Adolescent Family Therapy: Considerations of Systemic and Developmental Lenses

by Christine Senediak and Isabelle Feijo

10.               De Corporis Momentum: The Importance of the Body in Family Therapy.

by Dominique Bardou

11.               Suicide Attempts in Adolescence: The Line Where Life and Death Meet

by Maurizio Andolfi

12.              Working with High-Risk Adolescents in Combined Group and Family Therapy

by José Barrera

13.              Gender Variance in Adolescence

by Patrizia Petiva (2), Eva Gerino, & Rossella Siragusa

14.              Multigenerational Therapy and Violence Against Children

by Alejandro Astorga and Alicia Cruzat

15.              Social Withdrawal in Adolescence

by Francesca Ferraguzzi

16.              Silent Emotions: Embodied Metaphors in Early Onset Eating Disorders in Adolescence and Pre-Adolescence

by Camillo Loriedo

17.               Therapeutic Work with Families and Adolescents at Risk in a Western Australian Mental Health Service

by Giulia Pace

Part 3

Family and Social Dimensions of Couple Crises and Divorce

18.              Resolving Power Struggles in Last Chance Couple Therapy

by Peter Fraenkel

19.              Treating Same Sex Couples: Harnessing the Power of Love

by Michael LaSala

20.              Intergenerational Couple Therapy

by Maurizio Andolfi and Anna Mascellani

21.              Families Created from the Heart

by Natividat Perez and Carmen Catalayud Lliso

22.              Impact Techniques in Systemic Therapy

by Umberta Telfener

23.             Family/Couple Therapy through the Lens of Intimate Partner Violence: No Limits or Know Your Limits?

by Elisa Agostinelli and Brian Sullivan

24.              Serious Illness and Disability: Helping Couples Meet the Challenges

by John S. Rolland

25.             Children and Parents in Contemporary Families: From Boundary Ambiguity to the Construction of New Belongings

by Salvatore D’Amore

Part 4

Trauma, Loss and Resilience: The Healing Power of the Extended Family and Community

26.             Changing the Subject: From System to Culture to the Event

by Vincenzo Di Nicola and John Farnsworth

27.              Loss and Resilience through Turbulent Times: Meaning Making, Hope, and Transformation

by Froma Walsh

28.             Resignification: The Gift of Elaboration and Processing a Traumatic Experience

by Shulamit Graber

29.             Remembering Helps Us Forget

by Antonello D’Elia

30.             Young Children Remember: The Family as a Resource in the Treatment of Pre-verbal Trauma

by Arianne Struik and Raffaella Salvo

PART 5 

Cultural Diversity, Migration and Social Discrimination

31.              Family Transformation and Therapy in Malaysia: A Multicultural Mosaic Shaped by Historical Transformation

by Bawany Chinapan and Wai-Eng Ding

32.             Migration in Seven Words: An Inspirational Tool for Thinking about Family Therapy

by Ivy Daure

33.              Cultural Diversity as a Resource in Family Therapy

by Lorena Cavalieri

34.              Empowering and Supporting Japanese Families: A Gender Perspective

by Tazuko Shibusawa (2), Shinichi Nakamura, Takeyoshi Nozue, Noriko Odagiri, & Mami Onishi

35.               The Inventiveness of Loss Narratives of Trauma and Resilience among Palestinian Refugees Forcibly Displaced in Israel

by Mustafa Qossoqsi

36.              Interethnic Marriages and Family Dynamics in Senegal

by Geneviève Platteau and Waly Fatou Diop

37.               Introducing Climate Change in Mental Health Practice

by Olga Garcia Falceto (2), Enrique Falceto de Barros, & Luisa Falceto de Barros

Biography

Maurizio Andolfi, MD, is an internationally renowned child psychiatrist, Director of the Family Therapy Academy in Rome, Italy, and Editor-in-Chief of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also Director of the Perth Circle for the Advancement of Family Therapy in Western Australia.

Antonello D’Elia, MD, is a psychiatrist, trainer, and supervisor of the Family Therapy Academy, Italy, and Deputy Editor of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also President of Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica.

Peter Fraenkel, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York and a former faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

“This book is a global 'enactment' of the rebirth of systemic therapy to heal families and communities in the 21^st Century–a must-read for all interested in true human, relational and societal transformation.”

Silvia M. Kaminsky, M.S.Ed., LMFT American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) President (Jan. 2023–Dec. 2024)

“A comprehensive systems framework that inspires both trainees and seasoned practitioners to use creative interventions, nurturing family resilience through various life stages and bridging cultural and national divides.”

Joel Elizur, Professor (Emeritus), Clinical Child and Educational Psychology Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“What a tour de force! Andolfi’s book captures the spirit of his Assisi conference and its Manifesto: Valuing our children, couples, our resiliencies and diversities. It's a must-read!”

Rob Garfield, M.D., clinical faculty, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania