101 More Interventions in Family Therapy (Hardcover)

Contents
About the Editors

• Contributors
• Preface
• Don't Just Do Something, Stand There
• Mirroring Movement for Increasing Family Cooperation
• Seeing the Obvious: Data Collection in Therapy
• Of Clocks and Rubber Bands: On the Use of Props in Family Therapy
• Know the Enemy's Strategies and You Will Know Your Own Power
• The Race Is On! A Group Contingency Program to Reduce Sibling Aggression (Kristin E. Robinson)
• Attitude as Intervention
• Sculpting Stepfamily Structure
• Taped Supervision as a Reflecting Team
• Becoming the “Alien” Other
• Playing Baby
• Competing Voices: A Narrative Intervention
• Start with Meditation
• Emotional Restructuring: Re-Romancing the Marital Relationship
• It's Bigger Than Both of Us
• Joining with Jenga: An Intervention for Building Trust with Stepfamilies
• Crisis Intervention with Families: A One-Down Position
• Columbo Therapy As a One-Down Positioning with Families
• Seeing Change When Clients Don't
• Making the Genogram Solution Based
• From Alienation to Collaboration: Three Techniques for Building Alliances with Adolescents in Family Therapy
• What I Needed versus What I Got: Giving Clients Permission to Grieve
• Starting with the Familiar: Working with “Difficult” Clients
• A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Use of Family Photographs to Promote Parental Nurturance in Family Therapy with Adolescents
• A Fairy-Tale Ending
• The Wall of Defenses
• Single Women and the Grief Circle
• Slaying the Wild Things
• The Nightmare Question: Problem Talk in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Alcoholics and Their Families
• I Rewrite with a Little Help from My Friends
• Time and Couples, Part I: The Decompression Chamber
• Time and Couples, Part II: The Sixty-Second Pleasure Point
• Debunking Addictive Religious Belief Systems in Marital Therapy
• Ceremony to Memorialize Old Hurts
• Strategic Journaling
• A Solution-Focused Guessing Game for Children
• The Problem Box Ritual: Helping Families Prepare for Remarriage
• Using Batacca Sticks in Couple Therapy
• Necessity's Way
• Couples Group Psychotherapy with HIV-infected Gay Men
• The Grid
• Revisiting the Subject of Emotional Highs and Lows: Two Interventions
• Changing Hats During Therapeutic Impasses
• Reciprocal Double Binds, Amplification of Constructions of Reality, and Change in a Training Context
• The Play Is the Thing: Using Self-Constructed Board Games in Family Therapy
• Therapists Must Be EXPLISSIT
• The Relapse Is Your Friend
• Sculptural Metaphors to Create Discontinuity and Novelty in Family Therapy
• A Therapeutic Remarriage Ritual
• The Complaint Technique
• “Time Out”--Calming the Chaos
• An Empirically Driven Marital Therapy Intervention
• Symbols in Relationships (Don G. Brown)
• Use of Structural Family Therapy to Facilitate Adjustment Among Adolescent Leukemia Patients
• “We versus It” (Jan Osborn)
• “The Many Colors of Divorce”
• On a Scale From One to Ten . . .
• Genograms in a Multicultural Perspective
• Using Art to Aid the Process of Externalization
• The “What Are You Prepared to Do?” Question (David Pearson)
• Race in Family Therapy: Unnoticeable or Relevant?
• The Extramarital Affair: Honesty and Deconstructive Questioning
• Three Excellent Agreements: Wynona and the Eighteen-Wheeler
• Functions of Behavior in the Adolescent Family
• Together and Apart: Daily Rituals in Divorced and Remarried Families
• Trance and Transformation: Intervention with Verbally Combative Couples
• Many Smalls Steps Instead of One Intervention
• Metacommunication and Role Reversal as an Intervention
• Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones: The Verbally Abusive Child
• Binuclear Family Therapy: Conflict Reduction Through Agreeing to Disagree