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Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective
Daniela Kramer-Moore
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Description for Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective
Paperback. Family communication is fraught with history, taboo, and tradition. While many family communication patterns can promote authentic, tactful, and honest interaction, some habitual communication patterns can be destructive to open dialogue. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMF; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470667002
SKU
V9780470667002
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Ref
99-1
About Daniela Kramer-Moore
Daniela Kramer-Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. A family therapist with many years' experience of working with high risk adolescents and their families, she now heads the post-graduate Psychotherapy Centre at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel, where she previously led the Masters program in Educational Counselling. ... Read more
Reviews for Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective
"Although the title might suggest a relatively narrow target audience of family therapists, I feel certain that the fascinating ideas addressed here, coupled with the accessible style, would also speak to the experienced therapist, the trainee and the lay reader alike. By focusing on what is actually said in spousal, sibling and parental relationships, the authors invite the reader to ... Read more