Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide
Tara S. Peris and John Piacentini
Childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex condition that is often accompanied by high levels of family stress and strain. Families of youth with OCD face a unique set of ...
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Specialized Child and Family Interventions
Jay Lebow
in Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Families: Promoting Healthy Coping and Development
This chapter reviews strategies that are relevant to intervention with families involved in high conflict divorce. At the center of this approach is a steady patient approach based in ...
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More Than Words: The Use of Experiential Therapies in the Treatment of Families With Parent–Child Contact Problems and Parental Alienation
Abigail M. Judge and Rebecca Bailey
in Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
This chapter proposes the integration of experiential therapy techniques with family treatment for use with families experiencing parent–child contact problems, including parental ...
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Family Systems Approaches
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
Systems approaches to therapy focus on the system of which the individual is part, while still considering the individual. There are a variety of approaches to treatment within systems ...
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Session 1: Getting Started in Family Treatment: Child and Family Together
Tara S. Peris and John Piacentini
in Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide
This chapter provides an overview of the first family therapy session. It describes how to introduce families to the PFIT program and to develop a collaborative environment for establishing ...
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Systemic aspects of CBT
Claudia Koch, Anne Stewart, and Ailsa Stuart
in Oxford Guide to Surviving as a CBT Therapist
Chapter 9 explores systematic aspects of CBT, including the background and theoretical perspectives, evidence base and future developments, as well as practical considerations, ...
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Family-Focused Psychosocial Health Service Interventions
Donald R. Nicholas
in Psychosocial Care of the Adult Cancer Patient: Evidence-Based Practice in Psycho-Oncology
This chapter has three parts: background knowledge about family-focused interventions, a review of best available evidence organized around nine exemplar studies, and a detailed case ...
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The Role and Current Practice of Personal Therapy in Systemic/Family Therapy
Jay Lebow
in The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy: Patient and Clinician Perspectives
This chapter discusses the role and current practice of personal therapy in systemic and family therapy. It explores therapy for therapists across the models of family therapy, and how ...
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Psychosocial Treatments for Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Alan E. Kazdin
in A Guide to Treatments That Work (4 edn)
Significant advances have been made in the treatment of antisocial and aggressive behavior (conduct disorder), a severe source of impairment among children and adolescents. Several ...
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Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy
Myrna L. Friedlander, Valentín Escudero, Marianne J. Welmers-van de Poll, and Laurie Heatherington
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 1: Evidence-Based Therapist Contributions (3 edn)
This chapter reviews meta-analytic evidence for the alliance-outcome relation in couple and family therapy (CFT). The authors describe the unique features of CFT alliances and their ...
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Education and Treatment Planning
Tonya M. Palermo
in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents
In Chapter 5 general issues in working with children with chronic pain and
their families are discussed in the context of providing education and treatment planning. The initial ...
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Review: The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence: By C. I. Sandström (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1968)
Donald W. Winnicott and C. I. Sandström
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
A Review by Winnicott of the textbook of academic psychology The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence, by Sandström. Winnicott’s assessment is that Sandström misses the joys and ...
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Conducting Couple and Family Therapy
Jay L. Lebow
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 76 discusses techniques for conducting couple and family therapy (CFT) and presents 40 suggestions for improving the process and outcomes of CFT. ...
Relationship-Focused Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals and Their Parents
Gary M. Diamond, Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir, Inbal Gat, and Ofir Nir-Gottlieb
in Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities
This chapter describes the negative impact that ongoing parental rejection can have on sexual and gender minority individuals and the importance of promoting parental acceptance. It then ...
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Session 13: Building Family Cohesion
Karen C. Wells, John E. Lochman, and Lisa A. Lenhart
in Coping Power: Parent Group Program Workbook
Chapter 13 explores building family cohesion, and discusses activities that can improve family functioning both inside and outside the home. ...
Session 13: Building Family Cohesion
Karen C. Wells, John E. Lochman, and Lisa A. Lenhart
in Coping Power: Parent Group Program: Facilitator Guide
Chapter 15 explores building family cohesion, the involvement of mentor figures, and discusses activities that can improve family functioning and build family cohesion both inside and ...
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Introduction to Couple and Family Psychology
Mark Stanton and Robert Welsh
in Specialty Competencies in Couple and Family Psychology
This chapter defines the specialty of couple and family psychology (CFP), identifies the populationsserved by the specialty, specifies defined practice areas, and describesthe evolution of ...
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Dealing With Family and Interpersonal Problems
Dennis C. Daley and G. Alan Marlatt
in Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem: Effective Recovery Strategies, Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 12 explores dealing with family and interpersonal problems. This chapter's objectives are to identify effects of the substance use disorder on family and interpersonal ...
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Using Genograms in Assessment and Therapy
Sueli S. Petry and Monica McGoldrick
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 80 discusses the use of genograms in assessment and therapy, and considers the family information net, dealing with a family's resistance to developing a genogram, ethnic and ...
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Putting It All Together: Effective Intervention Planning for Children and Families
Lyn R. Greenberg and Jay L. Lebow
in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court (2 edn)
Child custody evaluators are frequently tasked with providing recommendations as to the kinds of services that parents, children, and families will need after the evaluation is concluded, ...
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