Functional Dialectic System Approach to Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families.
Title:
Functional Dialectic System Approach to Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families.
Author:
Almagor, Moshe.
ISBN:
9780816678518
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Kybalion -- Introduction -- Part I. The System -- 1. System: Nature, Role, Structure, and Communication -- What Is the System? -- The Goal of the System -- The Individual and the System -- How Is the System Structured? -- Communication -- 2. Dialectics -- Dialectics as a Method -- Dialectics and the System -- Dialectics and Therapy -- Cotherapists' Dialectic Dialogue -- 3. How the System Protects and Preserves Itself -- Contract -- Triangles -- Emotional Distance Regulatory Mechanisms -- The Symptom -- 4. System Development and Life Cycle -- Stages in Life Cycle -- 5. How the System Changes -- First- and Second-Order Change -- Reframing -- Externalization -- Summary -- Part II. The Intake -- 6. Joining and Establishing Therapeutic Alliance -- Joining -- Exploration -- Definition of the Focus Problem for Therapy -- Treatment Plan -- The Contract -- Part III. Treatment Structure: The Envelope -- 7. The Envelope: Joining -- A New System Is Formed -- Maintaining, Sustaining, and Fostering Joining -- The Client Often Differs from the Therapist in Important Characteristics -- Empowerment -- 8. Disclosure -- Self-Disclosure: Client -- Self-Disclosure: Therapist -- 9. Resistance: Impeding and Facilitating Therapy -- Resistance -- Power Struggles in Therapy -- Anger in Therapy -- When Therapy Is Stuck -- How to Unstick Therapy -- Part IV. Treatment Process: The Dialectics of Therapy -- 10. Functional Dialectic System View of Symptom and Psychopathology -- The Artist -- The Water Bottle -- The Gas Mask -- Depression by Proxy -- The Mask of Depression -- Part V. Selected Treatment Issues -- 11. Infidelity -- Prevalence of Infidelity -- Types of Infidelity -- How Does the System Protect Itself against Infidelity? -- The Function of Infidelity.
Extramarital Affairs May Have a Positive Effect on a Relationship -- Therapy: Structure (Ground Rules) -- Therapy: Process -- 12. Adolescent Suicide -- Suicide -- Functional Dialectic System View of Suicide -- Therapy: Structure and Process -- 13. Enrichment and Facilitation of Therapy -- The Dialectic Dialogue: Exercises -- Facilitating Dialectics: Family Sculpting -- Part VI. Termination and Follow-Up -- 14. Ending Therapy and Follow-Up -- When Does Therapy End? -- How Does Therapy End? -- Follow-Up -- Saying Goodbye -- Closing Comment -- Appendix: The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Code of Ethics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The functional dialectic system approach to therapy has been widely embraced and is now used internationally, with individuals and couples as well as with families. It differs substantially from the common psychotherapeutic models that have prevailed in the West for more than a century. According to the system model, an individual who is in treatment is not considered to be the primary focus of interest but is seen instead as part of a social context, the network of relationships that play significant roles in his or her life. In this book, Moshe Almagor offers a comprehensive view of the contemporary system approach--from theory to practice--and shows how it can be applied to a variety of psychological problems and in a variety of therapeutic modes. The system approach to therapy concentrates on the present situation of a client, aware that people are always in transition yet seeking order, safety, belonging, and identity. Their behavior is thus goal oriented and functional. The principles of dialectics assert that everything includes its opposite, that there is an ongoing conflict between the poles, and that this inevitable conflict creates pressure that leads to a continuous alteration. These principles, thoroughly explained in the book and practically illustrated by case examples drawn from the author's own practice, show how the system approach is optimistic in its orientation and is designed to help clients change their lives by broadening their understanding of themselves, their situations, and their options.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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