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Introduction to Integrative Ecosystemic Family Therapy |
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| PART I: COUPLES |
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Conducting Integrative Therapy Over Time: A Case Example of Open-Ended Therapy |
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The Tapestry of Couple Therapy: Interweaving Theory, Assessment, and Intervention |
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The Therapist in the Crucible: Early Developments in a New Paradigm of Sexual and Marital Therapy |
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43 | (14) |
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When Roads Diverge: A Case Study With a Gay Male Couple |
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57 | (12) |
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``Our Company Is Downsizing'': Couple and Individual Therapy for Work-Related and Systems Issues |
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Opportunities for Clarity, Understanding, and Choice: The Practice of Divorce Mediation |
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| PART II: FAMILIES IN TRANSITION |
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A Baby, Maybe: Crossing the Parenthood Threshold |
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Dreams Now and Then: Conversations About a Family's Struggles From a Collaborative Language Systems Approach |
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111 | (16) |
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Therapy With Stepfamilies: A Developmental Systems Approach |
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127 | (14) |
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Widening the Lens: Engaging a Family in Transition |
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141 | (16) |
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The Case of the ``Expendable'' Elder: Family Therapy With an Older Depressed Man |
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157 | (14) |
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| PART III: CULTURE, RELIGION, SOCIAL CLASS, AND ETHNICITY |
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Taking Sides: A White Intern Encounters an African American Family |
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171 | (8) |
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Using Contradiction: Family Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse |
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179 | (12) |
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The Misfit: A Deaf Adolecent Struggles for Meaning |
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191 | (14) |
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Grief and Cultural Transition: A Journey Out of Despair |
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Religious and Cultural Issues in Ecosystemic Therapy: A Therapist in the Flow |
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217 | (12) |
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Steps Toward a Culture and Migration Dialogue: Developing a Framework for Therapy With Immigrant Families |
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| PART IV: GENDER |
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Integrating Gender and Family Systems Theories: The ``Both/And'' Approach to Treating a Postmodern Couple |
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245 | (8) |
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Someday My Prince Will Come |
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253 | (12) |
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Developing Gender Awareness: When Therapist Growth Promotes Family Growht |
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265 | (10) |
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Rediscovery of Belovedness |
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275 | (12) |
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| PART V: FAMILIES COPING WITH PHYSICAL ILLNESS |
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``We're at the Breaking Point'': Family Distress and Competence in Serious Childhood Illness |
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287 | (12) |
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A Sneaky Teenager With Diabetes in Context: Stretching Minuchin's Psychosomatic Model |
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Her Right Foot: Pain, Integration, and the Biopsychosocial Model |
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309 | (8) |
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Honoring the Integration of Mind and Body: A Patient With Chronic Pain |
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317 | (6) |
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Differentiation Before Death: Medical Family Therapy for a Woman With End-Stage Crohn's Disease and Her Son |
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323 | (14) |
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HIV/AIDS, Families, and the Wider Caregiving System |
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| PART VI: FAMILIES COPING WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS |
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From Three Languages to One: Integrating Individual, Family, and Biological Perspectives in the Treatment of Affective Disorders |
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Integrating Psychiatric Illness Into Healthy Family Functioning: The Family Psychoeducational Treatment of a Patient With Bipolar Disorder |
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The Consequences of Caring: Mutual Healing of Family and Therapists Following a Suicide |
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| PART VII: SUPERVISION |
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Integrative Supervision: A Metaframeworks Perspective |
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Using the Multisystems Model With an African American Family: Cross-Racial Therapy and Supervision |
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| Author Index |
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| Subject Index |
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| About the Editors |
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