Critical Topics in Family Therapy AFTA Monograph Series Highlights /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nelson, Thorana (Editor), Winawer, Hinda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Family.

This Brief from the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) is a collection of chapters from the AFTA Monograph Series. The chapters specifically address responses to a wide range of contextual phenomena from a relational family therapy perspective. Chapters are grounded in family systems concepts an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview.- Families in the War Zone: Narratives of “Me” and the “Other” in the Course of Therapy
• Reflections on Growing Up in a War Zone: Understanding War and Building Peace.-  Fresh Start for Families: A collaboratively-build Community –based program for families that are homeless
• Constructing Empowerment and Resilience Contexts: Systemic Interventions in Communities
• Challenges and Changes to Family Therapy Practice in South Africa
• Nuestra Casa [Our Home]: From the Family to the Community
• Helping Children Heal After the Hurricanes: An Innovative Training Approach
• “News From Neuroscience: Applications to Couple therapy”
• Neurobiology and Addiction: Assisting the Family and Support System to Get Resistant Loved Ones Into Treatment
• Doing Family: Decentering Heteronormativity in “Marriage” and “Family” Therapy
• Families in Transition: Supporting Families of Transgender Youth
• Erotic Fantasy Reconsidered: From Tragedy to Triumph
• Couples and Kinky Sexuality: The Need for a New Therapeutic Approach
• Open Relationships: A Culturally and Clinically Sensitive Approach.