Evan Imber-Black

Families and Larger Systems

A Family Therapist's Guide Through the Labyrinth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If individuals cannot adequately be understood without reference to the family system, families themselves are comprehensible only in a broader social context. FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMS is the first single-author book on families and larger systems designed specifically for the practicing therapist. It offers rich descriptions of the difficulties families and larger systems often pose for one another; presents a detailed assessment model for therapists; and provides a careful interviewing format as well as directions for designing creative interventions. Imber-Black offers a consultation model for dealing with families and larger systems who have become embroiled with one another, and methods for longer term work with those families who must engage with larger systems across significant portions of their life cycle, due to illness, handicaps, or poverty. Problems of labeling, stigma, and secrecy in families are addressed, and an entire chapter is devoted to women's issues in families and related systems. Utilizing numerous case illustrations and interview excerpts, Dr, Imber-Black first delineates the problems common to family-larger system situations, analyzing the origins of these interactions, the assessment model and interviewing methods used, and the design and implementation of intervention. In the second half of her book, she presents in-depth discussions of strategies for improving the relationship between families and related systems. Through concrete example and hands-on analysis, Imber-Black shows how the misconceptions, assumptions, and subsequent labeling of family functioning and family members give rise to stalemated situations. FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMSprovides a practical guide for all clinicians regardless of theoretical orientation. Therapists who wish to maintain a career in public sector settings, such as mental health clinics, hospitals, and schools, will find in this volume direction for effective work with families and

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780898621099
• ISBN-10: 0898621097
• Artikelnr.: 21942169

Autorenporträt

Evan Imber-Black, PhD, is internationally known for her pioneering work on rituals, larger systems, and family secrets. She is Professor and Director of Family and Group Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Imber-Black is the editor of the highly acclaimed Secrets in Families and Family Therapy, author of Families and Larger Systems, and coauthor of Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (with Janine Roberts).