Title Becoming a marriage and family therapist : from the classroom to the consulting room / D. Eugene Mead

Published Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; About the Author; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I; Chapter 1 Becoming a Competent Marriage and Family Therapist; Introduction; The Role of Common Factors in Therapy Outcomes; Common factors contributions to successful client outcomes; The Therapeutic Alliance; The probable causes of split alliances; Detecting rifts in the alliance; Learning to detect split alliances; Interventions to repair ruptured alliances; Summary: Establishing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance Marriage and Family Theories and Evidence-Based Marital and Family TherapyEvidence-based models as an alternative to theory-based models; What evidence-based therapies are available to marriage and family therapists?; Selecting an Evidence-Based Model for Marriage and Family Therapy Interns; Some criteria for selecting an evidence-based therapy model; In summary; PracticingWithin Your Competence; The Remainder of the Book; What Should You Take Away from Chapter 1?; Chapter 2 Basic Therapist Skills; Introduction; The Therapist's Contribution to the Therapy Relationship Empathic listening and respondingPerson of the therapist variables; Dealing with stress as a therapist; Learning to observe your client's clinically relevant behavior; Crisis Management of Suicidal Ideation and Family Violence; Guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention; Suicide risk assessment; Using a semi-structured interview to assess suicide risk; Classifying the risk of suicide; Intervening with clients experiencing suicidal ideation and intention; Guidelines for Family Violence Risk Assessment: Partner-to-partner, Adult-to-Child, and Elder Maltreatment Family violence prevalenceFamily violence definitions; Adult-to-child maltreatment; Partner-to-partner maltreatment; Elder maltreatment; Convergence of family violence domains; Additional factors which set family violence off from other forms of violence; Risk factors for family violence; Risk factors for elder mistreatment; Co-occurrence of risk factors for the three domains of family conflict; Screening and assessing for family violence; Using self-report instruments to assess for the occurrence of family violence; Intervening with clients experiencing family violence; Case Progress Notes Structuring case progress notesSession information; Session summary; Observations; Conceptualizations; Interventions; Missing information; Assignments and future plans; What Should You Take Away From Chapter 2?; Chapter 3 The Initial Phone Call and Assessing Clients' Complaints and Goals; Introduction; The Initial Phone Call: A Semi-Structured Interview; Initiating the initial phone contact; Clarifying the clients' problems and goals; Establishing expectations for the assessment session; Setting safety needs; Deciding who should come to the assessment session Summary Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist is a practical ""how to"" guide designed to help trainee therapists successfully bridge the gap between classroom and consulting room. Readers will learn how to apply empirically-based methods to the core tasks of therapy in order to improve competency, establish effective supervision, and deliver successful client outcomes. A practical guide to improving competency across the core tasks of therapy, based on over 40 years of observation and teaching by an internationally acclaimed authorPresents treatment protocols t Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Family psychotherapy -- Practice Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance Psychology, Industrial. Group psychotherapy. Educational psychology. Psychology, Applied. Psychotherapy. Marital psychotherapy. Divorce therapy. Vocational guidance. Family psychotherapy. Psychology, Industrial Psychotherapy, Group Psychology, Educational Socioenvironmental Therapy Psychology, Applied Psychological Phenomena and Processes Psychotherapy Behavioral Disciplines and Activities Psychiatry and Psychology Marital Therapy Vocational Guidance Family Therapy Career Choice vocational guidance. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Couples & Family. Vocational guidance. Psychotherapy. Psychology, Industrial. Psychology, Applied. Marital psychotherapy. Group psychotherapy. Family psychotherapy. Educational psychology. Divorce therapy. Family psychotherapy -- Practice. Psychotherapy -- Vocational guidance. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012042685 ISBN 9781118323403 1118323408 9780470515877 0470515872 9781118323557 1118323556 9781118593820 1118593820

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