Positive Practice Step-by-step Guide to Family Therapy

Special issues are also covered, including adjunctive individual sessions, convening network meetings, jointly managing statutory and therapeutic responsibilities, ethical decision making, clinical audit, and professional development. An integrative formulation model provides a focus for both guiding assessment and planning therapy.
Positive Practice is for newcomers to the field of family therapy and systematic consultation including professionals from a variety of disciplines. The book is a step-by-step guide to family therapy and is written as a treatment manual as well as a training resource. It describes in detail a unique approach to consulting families with youngsters who have psychological or social problems. It covers the difficulties associated with planning the first consultation, strategies for family assessment and problem formulation, methods for developing a therapeutic contract and goal setting, plans for conducting therapy and troubleshooting resistance, and ways of conduc