Therapeutic Alliances with Families Empowering Clients in Challenging Cases /

• Main Authors: Escudero, Valentín (Author), Friedlander, Myrna L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Focused Issues in Family Therapy,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Social work.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Counseling.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Social Work.; Family.

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across th...

Table of Contents:

• Using the Therapeutic Alliance to Empower Couples and Families
• Couples' Cross-Complaints: "I Want...But S/He Doesn't Want To..."
• Engaging Reluctant Adolescents and Their Parents
• Parenting in Isolation, Without or With a Partner
• Child Maltreatment: Creating Therapeutic Alliances with Survivors of Relational Trauma
• Disadvantages, Multi-stressed Families Adrift in a Sea of Professional Helpers
• Empowering Through the Alliance: A Practical Formulation.