International Family Systems Therapy

Global Perspectives on the Healing Power of Families
Herausgeber: Andolfi, Maurizio; D'Elia, Antonello; Fraenkel, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Detailing a wide range of systemic approaches to mental health and relational issues, this essential guide demonstrates the power of family systems therapy as a means of fostering genuine human, relational, and societal transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9781032870083
• ISBN-10: 1032870087
• Artikelnr.: 74774866

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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