1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy
The Routledge International Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy is a comprehensive text that promotes innovative frameworks and interventions in couple and family therapy from a cross cultural perspective.
A diverse range of international contributors explore the role that demography, regionality, cultural and political crises, and policy, have on the issues faced by couples and families. Collectively, the chapters articulate unique ideas in conceptualizing the needs of families with international backgrounds, adapting the current models and frameworks to work with this population most effectively. The text is split into four sections covering: personal voices and philosophical perspectives, theory and models, specific applications with international populations, and emerging perspectives.
This handbook is essential for individual practitioners, researchers, psychotherapists, and related mental health professionals, as well as academics with an interest in working with couples and families.
Section I: Personal Voices and Philosophical Perspectives
1. The State of Couple and Family Therapy Internationally
Katherine M. Hertlein and Alexis Washington
2. Addressing Existential Concerns in Families Amongst Contemporary Shifts - A Psychoanalytic, Object Relations Perspective
Cheri L. Hausmann
3. Milan School of Family Therapy
Umberta Telfener
4. A Narratological Study of a Family-Therapeutic Case History
Werner Pfab
5. Family Rituals
Carmen V. Nieto, Kimberly N. Usbeck, Jia-Xin Teo, and Karrison A. Rimon
6. Lived and Successful Sexuality: A Challenge for Couple and Family Therapy
Dr. Ingo Zimmermann
Section II: Theories and Models in an International Context
7. Sociocultural Attunement in Family Therapy
J. Maria Bermudez, Teresa McDowell, and Carmen Knudson-Martin
8. Socio-Relationally Responsive Supervision for Inclusive Learning: A Discursive Perspective
Dr. Saliha Bava
9. Emotional Divorce and Couples Therapy in Iran
Afarin Rajaei and Parmida Safavi
10. 'It's more than I can manage': Psychosocial Counseling and Family Therapy for Refugees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
B. Bräutigam, A. H. Lohrasbi Nejad and L. Werle
11. Bi-National and Multicultural Expat Couples in Mexico City: Exploring Covert Cultural Contracts
Jason James Platt and Elizabeth Ann Willems
12. Systemic Family Therapy in Africa: Past, Present, and Future Trends
Ronald Asiimwe, Michelle Karume and Rosco Kasujja
13. The Development of Cambodian Family Therapy
Bernhild Pfautsch
14. Taiwanese Couples and Families: Current Treatment Perspectives
Chi-Fang Tseng and Pei-Fen Li
15. Bosphorus Connecting Europe and Asia: Couple and Family Therapy in Turkey
Yudum Söylemez and Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam
16. The Therapeutic Dance of Bowenian Therapy and South Asian Families: Issues to Consider
Gita Seshadri and Shruti Poulsen
Section III: Specific Applications with International Populations
17. Medical Family Therapists Working with Culturally Diverse Patients - Using the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model with Chronically and Terminally Ill Patients and their Families
Vaida Kazlauskaite and Elena Angelkova
18. Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Global Practices
Sara Smock Jordan and Benjamin T. Finlayson
19. Bridging Training and Experiences: Expanding Clinical Practices with Latinx Communities
Melissa M. Yzaguirre and Andres Brown
20. Recommendations for Working with Trauma Within Incarcerated Couples and Families
Eman Tadros and Sreevidya Nibhanupudi
21. Addressing Technology Misuse in Relationships: A Cross Cultural Therapeutic Perspective
Katherine M. Hertlein
22. Cross-Cultural Technology Use in Maintaining Romantic and Familial Relationships
Katherine M. Hertlein, Nicole Feno, Alysha Robinson, Norma Gomez, Jonathan Molina and Teri Raven
23. Experientialism: Finding Unconditional Positive Regard in a World of Chaos
Tabitha N. Webster, Dumayi Gutierrez and Reihaneh Mahdavishahri
24. Immigrant and Refugee Families: Theory and Practice
Zamzam Dini, Marwa Ibrahim and Connor Callahan
25. Systemic Therapy in Central and South America: Past, Present, and Future
Ruth Casabianca
Section IV: Emerging Perspectives
26. Risks and Side-Effects in Systemic Family Therapy
Matthias Ochs, Jakub Caha & Tomáš Řiháček
27. Interracial Couples: Clinical Considerations for a Contemporary World
Maxine R. Notice
28. Sino-American Family Therapy: A Chinese Perspective on Traditional Western Family Therapy Methods
John K. Miller, Hu Yaorui and Dai Xing
29. An Adaptive Application of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Iranian Immigrant Couples
Reihaneh Mahdavishahri
30. Yoruba Nigerian and European-American Couples: International Considerations for Therapy
Rachael A. Dansby Olufowote
31. Practicing Couple Therapy in the Middle East: Arab and Muslim Related Critiques and Clinical Considerations
Mona ElRoby Saleh, Sarah K. Samman and Rachael A. Dansby Olufowote
32. Towards a Bicultural Parenting Model for South Asian Immigrant Parents
Rajeswari Natrajan-Tyagi and Shruti Singh Poulsen
33. An Integration of Collaborative Language Systems and Symbolic Experiential Family Therapy with Transnational Families
Nicole Sabatini Gutierrez and K. Loette Snead
34. Relational Resiliency in an Age of Digital Chaos: Collective Strategies for Prevention and Healing in an Electronic World
Katherine M. Hertlein
Biography
Katherine M. Hertlein, Ph.D., (she/her) is a Professor in the Couple and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University Calumet and her doctorate in human development with a specialization in marriage and family therapy from Virginia Tech. Across her academic career, she has published over 90 articles, 12 books, and over 50 book chapters. She is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. She was a 2018-2019 Fulbright Core Scholar, and in this role, served as a Visiting Lecturer and Guest Researcher at the University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. She lectures nationally and internationally on technology, couples, and sex. Dr. Hertlein maintains a private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada.
