Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective

Kramer-Moore, Daniela; Moore, Michael

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members. 

• Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
• Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
• Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
• Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2012-04-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780470667019

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Dimensions: 236.2cm x157.5cm

Pages: 216.0