Description
| Product ID: | 9780415744232 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families |
| Subtitle: | An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing |
| Authors: | Author: Arthur G. Mones |
| Page Count: | 154 |
| Subjects: | Family psychology, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families provides a map to help clinicians understand a child’s symptoms and formulate effective treatment strategies. It is based on a nonpathologizing systems/contextual approach that introduces an integrative metamodel, based on Internal Family Systems theory, that shows how healing occurs for children and their families in intrapsychic and interpersonal spheres. In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr. Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy model for work with youngsters and their families. This model centers diagnosis and treatment around the concept of the Functional Hypothesis, which views symptoms as adaptive and survivalbased when viewed in multiple contexts. The book provides a map to help clinicians understand a child’s problems amidst the reactivity of parents and siblings, and to formulate effective treatment strategies that flow directly from this understanding. This is a nonpathologizing systems and contextual approach that brings forward the natural healing capacity within clients. Dr. Mones also shows how a therapist can open the emotional system of a family so that parents can let go of their agendas with their children and interact in a loving, healthy, Self-led way. This integrative MetaModel combines wisdom from Psychodynamic, Structural, Bowenian, Strategic, Sensorimotor, and Solution-Focused models interwoven with IFS Therapy. A glossary of terms is provided to help readers with concepts unique to IFS. Unique to this approach is the emphasis on shifting back and forth between intrapsychic and relational levels of experience. Therapy vignettes are explored to help therapists address issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression, somatization, oppositional and self-destructive behavior in children, along with undercurrents of attachment injury. Two detailed cases are followed over a full course of treatment. A section on Frequently Asked Questions explores work with families of separation and divorce, resistance, the trajectory of treatment, dealing with anger, linking to twelve-step programs, and much more. This is an ideal book for any therapist in quest of understanding the essence of healing and seeking therapeutic strategies applied within a compassionate framework. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-09 |
