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Family Therapy

Family therapy is increasingly recognised as one of the evidence based psychotherapies. In contemporary therapeutic practice, family therapy is helpful across the age span and for distress caused by family con¯ict, trauma and mental health dif®culties. Because of this, many psychotherapists integrate elements of family therapy within their approaches. Family Therapy: 100 KeyPoints and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to 100 of the fundamental ideas and techniques of this approach. Divided into helpful sections, it covers:

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Family therapy theory Essential family therapy practice Using family therapy techniques Common challenges in family therapy Contemporary debates and issues Self issues for family therapists.

Family Therapy: 100Key Points and Techniques is an invaluable resource for psychotherapists and counsellors in training and in practice. As well as appealing to established family therapists, this latest addition to the 100 Key Points series will also ®nd an audience with other mental health professionals working with families and interested in learning more about family therapy techniques. Mark Rivett is a UKCPregistered family therapist and Senior Lecturer and Director of Family Therapy Training at Bristol University. He is the current editor of the Journal of Family Therapy. Eddy Street is a Chartered Clinical and Counselling Psychologist (BPS) and having spent most of his professional career in NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services he is now working independently. He is a past editor of theJournal of Family Therapy, and has published widely on this subject.

100 Key Points
Series Editor: Windy Dryden
ALSO IN THIS SERIES:

Cognitive Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan

Family Therapy
100 key points and techniques

Mark Rivett and Eddy StreetFirst published 2009 by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Copyright Ø 2009 Mark Rivett & Eddy Street All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, withoutpermission in writing from the publishers. This publication has been produced with paper manufactured to strict environmental standards and with pulp derived from sustainable forests.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rivett, Mark. Family therapy : 100 key pointsand techniques / Mark Rivett & Eddy Street. p. ; cm. (100 key points) ISBN 978-0-415-41038-0 (hbk.) ISBN 978-0-415-41039-7 (pbk.) 1. Family psychotherapy. I. Street, Eddy. II. Title. III. Series: 100 key points. [DNLM: 1. Family Therapy±methods. WM 430.5.F2 R624f 2009] RC488.5.R586 2009 616.89©156±dc22 2009003867
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ISBN: 978-0-415-41038-0 (hbk) ISBN:978-0-415-41039-7 (pbk)

To Leonard who would have told me which were the best points and With heartfelt gratitude to all my teachers

Contents

Preface

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Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 SYSTEMS THEORY What is a system? The family as a system Individuals and systems Circularity and interconnection Structures and contexts Family rules, contexts and meanings History and development Meaning...