Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults

Dr. Shlomo Ariel is a senior clinical psychologist and family therapist, an international trainer of therapists and Director of the Integrative Psychotherapy Center and the Israel Play Therapy Institute in Ramat Gan, Israel. http://www.enjoymychild.com

In this fascinating book, Dr. Ariel provides a superb framework forlearning to be an integrative therapist. The book brings an energeticand unique perspective; giving access to inner workings of language intherapy, thus providing critical ground for learning from clinicalexperience. Dr. Ariel’s background in linguistics gives him ease indealing with and integrating concepts and findings from various fields.He creates a language, simultaneously alive and rigorous, foracknowledging and working creatively with the unending complexity ofhuman experience.David Keith, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y. This outstanding book provides a comprehensive overview of The Diamond Model, developed by the author. It sheds a new light on the ways systemic therapists can proceed through all the stages of therapy, applying an integration of various effective techniques. The author has demonstrated his capacity to clarify his multidimensional and culturally informed Diamond Model in a way that is easy to understand. Recently, Dr. Ariel trained a first generation of family therapists to apply The Diamond Model here in Kosovo. The trainees have found this model very useful as a theory-into-practice guide for working with complex cases. Mimoza Shahini, Dr. Sci.; Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Mitrovica University; Director, The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic, Prishtina University, Kosovo

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1 Theoretical and methodological foundationsChapter 1 The Diamond Model - essentialsChapter 2 The sublanguages of information processing, cybernetics and semioticsChapter 3 The synchronic and diachronic perspectives and the concept of simplicity Part 2 The internal and external subsystemsChapter 4 The internal subsystems Chapter 5 The external subsystems Part 3 Multi-systemic diagnosisChapter 6 Collecting and analyzing diagnostic dataChapter 7 Organizing the multi-systemic diagnostic data Part 4 TherapyChapter 8 Planning and carrying out the therapy Chapter 9 The healing power of various therapeutic techniquesChapter 10 Make-believe play as a therapeutic instrumentChapter 11 Monitoring the therapeutic processEpilogue List of cases, examples and observationsIndex