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This article describes a procedure for training family therapists in the clinical application of circular questioning as developed and implemented at the Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic at the University of Iowa. A pragmatic taxonomy of circular questions is presented; instructional handouts designed to facilitate the use of these questions within the trainee's initial interviews are included.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01629.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Contemporary family therapy is examined in terms of its ideological content. The adoption of cybernetics and biological systems theory to the family has led to the erroneous belief that familytherapy is exclusively concerned with natural systems, is process oriented, content relative, and above ideology. This article argues that the family and the enterprise of family therapy are social systems and under the influence of the ideology particular to a given society. The strategic family therapy treatment of a family with a drug‐addicted member serves as an example to clarify the ideological themes of contemporary family therapy. These themes are: (a) family reductionism and blaming; (b) the relabeling of personal injustice into communicational terminology; (c) the assumption that the nuclear family is optimal; (d) the conceptualization of therapy as a commodity; and (e) the model of human relatedness and intimacy supported by family therap

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01630.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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The therapeutic alliance concept has been confined primarily to the literature on individual psychotherapy. This paper formally introduces the concept into the family and marital therapy domain and presents various clinical hypotheses about the nature of the alliance and its role in familyand marital therapy. A systemic perspective is brought to bear on the concept within individual psychotherapy. A new, integrative definition of the alliance is presented that conceptualizes individual, couple and family therapy as occurring within the same systemic framework. The implications of this integrative‐alliance concept for family, couple and individual therapy research are examined. Three new system‐ically oriented scales to measure the alliance in individual, couple and family therapy are presented along with some preliminary data on their methodological characterist

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01631.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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The author's work with families presenting to a psychiatric emergency service points to the prominence of families' wishes that one family member be hospitalized. The pressure on the cliniciancan be extreme. A number of studies in the literature on the decision to admit contain similar observations emerging from varied methodologies and vantages. The author draws from clinical practiceand the literature to focus on an interpersonal dimension to emergency interventions. Awareness ofinterpersonal forces upon mental health clinicians is crucial to allow mature balancing of the many factors involved in the decision making process. An integration of family and systems thinking into the practice of emergency psychiatry can enhance comfort and effectiveness in many difficult crisis situations.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01632.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Clinical literature has noted numerous past and current psychosocial factors characteristicof sexually dysfunctional individuals. However, there is almost no empirical documentation of factorsdiscriminating sexually functional from dysfunctional couples. The present study compared the responses of 94 clinical couples accepted for sex therapy with 110 nonclinical couples, selected from the same community. The couples were in their mid‐30s, married an average of 12 years, middle income, rather well educated, and over 75% had at least one child. Individuals completed a 517‐question Personal History Questionnaire (PHQ), and sex and marital defensiveness scales. The PHQ wasclinically and empirically developed, resulting in 54 internally consistent scales. Major analyses tested the discriminating power of past and current PHQ scales. The best discriminators were sexual functioning scales, historical and affective scales for women, and current and fantasy scales for men. Several surprising results appeared, including the importance of first coitus and the lack of importance of marital satisfaction, communication and sexual history scales. Four conclusionswere discussed relevant to the separation of sex and relationship satisfaction, the separation of sexualfunctioning and sexual satisfaction, and the differential impact of sexual problems on men and wo

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01633.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Success and promotion within an academic setting depends heavily upon one's ability to publishscholarly work. The “publish or perish” syndrome, and how it relates to marital and family therapy, is of importance to current and aspiring academicians' futures as well as those who wish to impact the field. Research was conducted to identify the most prolific journal writers in the field, and 18 persons were surveyed in order to ascertain how they organized themselves personally and professionally, in order to write productively. The results are analyzed, and recommendations are made regarding the organization of oneself for publishing succ

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01634.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Two models of family therapy supervision were compared in this research. Thirteen doctoral interns were divided into two groups. The first group received supervision based on delayed feedback supervision concepts. The second group received supervision based on the concepts of live supervision using the team approach. No significant differences were detected between the two supervision models in their ability to help interns acquire and retain selected family therapy skills.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01635.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01636.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01637.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1986.tb01638.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY