Maria Borcsa – författare

This book examines systemic family therapy research, addressing key topics across the interrelated disciplines of psychotherapy, social work, and counseling. Drawing from contributions at the 2017 International Systemic Research Conference in Heidelberg, it includes both quantitative and qualitative research perspectives and outlines a wide array of approaches, using systems theory and constructivist epistemology. In addition, the book focuses on innovative paradigms, research strategies, and methods, seeking to bridge the gap between research and practice in the field of systemic family therapy. Finally, it provides guidance on submitting and maximizing the likelihood of research paper acceptance to leading family therapy journals.Topics featured in this book include:Effectiveness of research-informed systemic therapy.Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions in relational contexts.Use of SCORE (Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation) as an indicator of family functioning in Europe.Systemic approaches for working with couples with high conflict behaviors.Therapeutic-Factor-Oriented skill building in systemic counseling.Importance of client feedback in development of professional knowledge base.Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students in family therapy, clinical psychology, general practice/family medicine, and social work as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.

This book examines systemic family therapy research, addressing key topics across the interrelated disciplines of psychotherapy, social work, and counseling. Drawing from contributions at the 2017 International Systemic Research Conference in Heidelberg, it includes both quantitative and qualitative research perspectives and outlines a wide array of approaches, using systems theory and constructivist epistemology. In addition, the book focuses on innovative paradigms, research strategies, and methods, seeking to bridge the gap between research and practice in the field of systemic family therapy. Finally, it provides guidance on submitting and maximizing the likelihood of research paper acceptance to leading family therapy journals.

Topics featured in this book include:

Effectiveness of research-informed systemic therapy.Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions in relational contexts.Use of SCORE (Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation) as an indicator of family functioning in Europe.Systemic approaches for working with couples with high conflict behaviors.Therapeutic-Factor-Oriented skill building in systemic counseling.Importance of client feedback in development of professional knowledge base.

Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students in family therapy, clinical psychology, general practice/family medicine, and social work as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.

This book examines systemic family therapy research, addressing key topics across the interrelated disciplines of psychotherapy, social work, and counseling. Drawing from contributions at the 2017 International Systemic Research Conference in Heidelberg, it includes both quantitative and qualitative research perspectives and outlines a wide array of approaches, using systems theory and constructivist epistemology. In addition, the book focuses on innovative paradigms, research strategies, and methods, seeking to bridge the gap between research and practice in the field of systemic family therapy. Finally, it provides guidance on submitting and maximizing the likelihood of research paper acceptance to leading family therapy journals.Topics featured in this book include:Effectiveness of research-informed systemic therapy.Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions in relational contexts.Use of SCORE (Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation) as an indicator of family functioning in Europe.Systemic approaches for working with couples with high conflict behaviors.Therapeutic-Factor-Oriented skill building in systemic counseling.Importance of client feedback in development of professional knowledge base.Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students in family therapy, clinical psychology, general practice/family medicine, and social work as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.

This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions, such as how to access the voices of vulnerable populations, understand the relationship between experience and discourse, and identify processes and patterns that characterize institutional practices. The book offers insight into projects that reflect various cultural contexts and geographical locations as well as involve diverse research teams, ranging in their methodology from individual case studies to community-based interventions.Chapters address how research method selection needs to be tailored to specific contexts within which studies are carried out and how synthesizing diverse perspectives of different disciplines – such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and art – make a research endeavor more fruitful. The book offers a clear framework in which to assess the research presented in the book as well as map future directions for qualitative methodology in mental health research.Key areas of coverage include projects that describe research with:• Individuals confronted with critical life events.• Former psychiatric patients.• Individual and couple psychotherapy clients.• Clients in a forensic setting.• Persons affected by psychosis.• Dementia patients.• People living with cancer.• Health care professionals. Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as therapists and other professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, psychotherapy, social work, and family therapy as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.Chapter 10, “Engraved in the Body: Ways of Reading Finnish People’s Memories of Mental Hospitals” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions, such as how to access the voices of vulnerable populations, understand the relationship between experience and discourse, and identify processes and patterns that characterize institutional practices. The book offers insight into projects that reflect various cultural contexts and geographical locations as well as involve diverse research teams, ranging in their methodology from individual case studies to community-based interventions.

Chapters address how research method selection needs to be tailored to specific contexts within which studies are carried out and how synthesizing diverse perspectives of different disciplines – such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and art – make a research endeavor more fruitful. The book offers a clear framework in which to assess the research presented in the book as well as map future directions for qualitative methodology in mental health research.

Key areas of coverage include projects that describe research with:• Individuals confronted with critical life events.• Former psychiatric patients.• Individual and couple psychotherapy clients.• Clients in a forensic setting.• Persons affected by psychosis.• Dementia patients.• People living with cancer.• Health care professionals. 

Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as therapists and other professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, psychotherapy, social work, and family therapy as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.Chapter 10, “Engraved in the Body: Ways of Reading Finnish People’s Memories of Mental Hospitals” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions, such as how to access the voices of vulnerable populations, understand the relationship between experience and discourse, and identify processes and patterns that characterize institutional practices. The book offers insight into projects that reflect various cultural contexts and geographical locations as well as involve diverse research teams, ranging in their methodology from individual case studies to community-based interventions.Chapters address how research method selection needs to be tailored to specific contexts within which studies are carried out and how synthesizing diverse perspectives of different disciplines – such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and art – make a research endeavor more fruitful. The book offers a clear framework in which to assess the research presented in the book as well as map future directions for qualitative methodology in mental health research.Key areas of coverage include projects that describe research with:• Individuals confronted with critical life events.• Former psychiatric patients.• Individual and couple psychotherapy clients.• Clients in a forensic setting.• Persons affected by psychosis.• Dementia patients.• People living with cancer.• Health care professionals. Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as therapists and other professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, psychotherapy, social work, and family therapy as well as all interrelated psychology and medical disciplines.Chapter 10, “Engraved in the Body: Ways of Reading Finnish People’s Memories of Mental Hospitals” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This handbook examines digital systemic psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. It addresses online supervision for professionals working in mental health services as well as online training in systemic family and couple therapy. The handbook explores the dramatic changes in the use of digital technology since the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a theoretical perspective on the impact of digital technology on family life as well as therapeutic work. The volume offers state-of-the-art practical recommendations to trainees, therapists, supervisors, and trainers for implementing online systemic practices.Key areas of coverage include:Therapeutic alliance in online systemic therapy.Online systemic therapy with individuals presenting psychological difficulties as well as families of adolescents with mental health issues.Online couples therapy.Online systemic group therapy with oncology patients.Online multifamily group therapy with youths facing psychotic symptoms.Online systemic supervision with individuals and teams.Online training in systemic couple and family therapy.Methods and guidelines for online systemic practices.The Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical psychology, family studies, psychotherapy, social work, public health, and all interrelated disciplines.

This handbook examines digital systemic psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. It addresses online supervision for professionals working in mental health services as well as online training in systemic family and couple therapy. The handbook explores the dramatic changes in the use of digital technology since the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a theoretical perspective on the impact of digital technology on family life as well as therapeutic work. The volume offers state-of-the-art practical recommendations to trainees, therapists, supervisors, and trainers for implementing online systemic practices.Key areas of coverage include:Therapeutic alliance in online systemic therapy.Online systemic therapy with individuals presenting psychological difficulties as well as families of adolescents with mental health issues.Online couples therapy.Online systemic group therapy with oncology patients.Online multifamily group therapy with youths facing psychotic symptoms.Online systemic supervision with individuals and teams.Online training in systemic couple and family therapy.Methods and guidelines for online systemic practices.The Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical psychology, family studies, psychotherapy, social work, public health, and all interrelated disciplines.

Dieses Werk bietet erstmalig einen breit gefächerten Überblick über die Anwendungsbereiche der Systemischen Therapie in der psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutischen Versorgung: Fachpersonen aus Klinik und niedergelassener Praxis, psychiatrischer Regelversorgung und Gemeindepsychiatrie sowie aus Einrichtungen der Prävention und Rehabilitation erläutern das Verfahren. Darüber hinaus werden Finanzierungsmodelle dargestellt, Entwicklungschancen skizziert, "Nebenwirkungen" wissenschaftlich reflektiert und Problematiken an den Schnittstellen der verschiedenen Auftraggeber aufgezeigt. Zudem beschreibt der Herausgeberband die Systemische Therapie aus der Perspektive der NutzerInnen und ergänzt den Einblick in die Versorgungpraxis in Deutschland durch internationale Best-Practice-Beispiele und innovative Versorgungsmodelle aus Norwegen, Polen und Griechenland.

Dieses Werk bietet erstmalig einen breit gefächerten Überblick über die Anwendungsbereiche der Systemischen Therapie in der psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutischen Versorgung: Fachpersonen aus Klinik und niedergelassener Praxis, psychiatrischer Regelversorgung und Gemeindepsychiatrie sowie aus Einrichtungen der Prävention und Rehabilitation erläutern das Verfahren. Darüber hinaus werden Finanzierungsmodelle dargestellt, Entwicklungschancen skizziert, "Nebenwirkungen" wissenschaftlich reflektiert und Problematiken an den Schnittstellen der verschiedenen Auftraggeber aufgezeigt. Zudem beschreibt der Herausgeberband die Systemische Therapie aus der Perspektive der NutzerInnen und ergänzt den Einblick in die Versorgungpraxis in Deutschland durch internationale Best-Practice-Beispiele und innovative Versorgungsmodelle aus Norwegen, Polen und Griechenland.

In this powerful volume, six qualitative methods are used to analyze a couple therapy with a troubled young couple, illustrating the intricate processes and sub-processes of therapy through client interactions with their therapists and with each other. Increasingly popular for revealing the nuances and complexity of human interactions, qualitative approaches focus on process and discursive methods which can be particularly rewarding in multi-client settings. Through the examples that make up the text, practitioners and researchers become better acquainted  with the power of qualitative perspectives and are encouraged to examine their own views on therapy as they consider these and other concepts:The development of dialogical space in a couple therapy session.Introducing novelties into therapeutic dialogue: the importance of minor shifts of the therapist.Therapists’ responses for enhancing change through dialogue: dialogical investigationsof change.Fostering dialogue: exploring the therapists’ discursive contributions in a couple therapy.Dominant story, power, and positioning.Constructing the moral order of a relationship in couples therapy.Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods ably demonstrates the balance between therapeutic art and science for family and couples therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals in research and practice.

In this powerful volume, six qualitative methods are used to analyze a couple therapy with a troubled young couple, illustrating the intricate processes and sub-processes of therapy through client interactions with their therapists and with each other. Increasingly popular for revealing the nuances and complexity of human interactions, qualitative approaches focus on process and discursive methods which can be particularly rewarding in multi-client settings. Through the examples that make up the text, practitioners and researchers become better acquainted  with the power of qualitative perspectives and are encouraged to examine their own views on therapy as they consider these and other concepts:

The development of dialogical space in a couple therapy session.

Introducing novelties into therapeutic dialogue: the importance of minor shifts of the therapist.

Therapists’ responses for enhancing change through dialogue: dialogical investigationsof change.

Fostering dialogue: exploring the therapists’ discursive contributions

in a couple therapy.

Dominant story, power, and positioning.

Constructing the moral order of a relationship in couples therapy.

Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods ably demonstrates the balance between therapeutic art and science for family and couples therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals in research and practice.

The founding volume of the European Family Therapy Association book series presents new ideas confirming the crucial importance of systemic family therapy for family practice.Spanning paradigms, models, concepts, applications, and implications for families as they develop, experts in the field demonstrate the translatability of session insights into real-world contexts, bolstering therapeutic gains outside the treatment setting. Chapters emphasize the potential for systemic family therapy as integrative across theories, healing disciplines, modes of treatment, while contributors’ personal perspectives provide unique takes on the therapist’s role. Together, these papers promote best practices not only for therapy, but also research and training as professionals delve deeper into understanding the complexity and diversity of families and family systems. Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice offers practitioners and other professionals particularly interested in family therapy practice timely, ethical tools for enhancing their work.

The founding volume of the European Family Therapy Association book series presents new ideas confirming the crucial importance of systemic family therapy for family practice.Spanning paradigms, models, concepts, applications, and implications for families as they develop, experts in the field demonstrate the translatability of session insights into real-world contexts, bolstering therapeutic gains outside the treatment setting. Chapters emphasize the potential for systemic family therapy as integrative across theories, healing disciplines, modes of treatment, while contributors’ personal perspectives provide unique takes on the therapist’s role. Together, these papers promote best practices not only for therapy, but also research and training as professionals delve deeper into understanding the complexity and diversity of families and family systems. <Included in the coverage:•The story of an encounter: the systemic approach at the heart of innovative clinical practice. •Steps to an ultramodern family therapy.•From networks to resonance: the life journey of a family therapist.•How to give a voice to children in family therapy.•Systemic theory and narratives of attachment: integration, formulation, and development over time.•Virtual relations and globalized families: the Genogram 4.0 interview. Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice offers practitioners and other professionals particularly interested in family therapy practice timely, ethical tools for enhancing their work.

In this powerful volume, six qualitative methods are used to analyze a couple therapy with a troubled young couple, illustrating the intricate processes and sub-processes of therapy through client interactions with their therapists and with each other. Increasingly popular for revealing the nuances and complexity of human interactions, qualitative approaches focus on process and discursive methods which can be particularly rewarding in multi-client settings. Through the examples that make up the text, practitioners and researchers become better acquainted  with the power of qualitative perspectives and are encouraged to examine their own views on therapy as they consider these and other concepts:The development of dialogical space in a couple therapy session.Introducing novelties into therapeutic dialogue: the importance of minor shifts of the therapist.Therapists’ responses for enhancing change through dialogue: dialogical investigationsof change.Fostering dialogue: exploring the therapists’ discursive contributions in a couple therapy.Dominant story, power, and positioning.Constructing the moral order of a relationship in couples therapy.Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods ably demonstrates the balance between therapeutic art and science for family and couples therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals in research and practice.

The founding volume of the European Family Therapy Association book series presents new ideas confirming the crucial importance of systemic family therapy for family practice.Spanning paradigms, models, concepts, applications, and implications for families as they develop, experts in the field demonstrate the translatability of session insights into real-world contexts, bolstering therapeutic gains outside the treatment setting. Chapters emphasize the potential for systemic family therapy as integrative across theories, healing disciplines, modes of treatment, while contributors’ personal perspectives provide unique takes on the therapist’s role. Together, these papers promote best practices not only for therapy, but also research and training as professionals delve deeper into understanding the complexity and diversity of families and family systems. Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice offers practitioners and other professionals particularly interested in family therapy practice timely, ethical tools for enhancing their work.

Was ist unter narrativer Therapie und weitergehend narrativer Praxis zu verstehen? Welche konzeptionellen und methodischen Weiter- und Neuentwicklungen hat sie in den letzten Jahren erfahren? Wie kann in verschiedensten Kontexten und Settings narrativ gearbeitet werden, welche Impulse für schulenübergreifendes, beraterisches und therapeutisches Tun ergeben sich daraus? Dieses umfassende Handbuch informiert fundiert und facettenreich über Begrifflichkeiten und theoretische Hintergründe, vor allem aber über die Praxis narrativen Vorgehens in psychosozialen und organisationsbezogenen Arbeitsfeldern. Aus der narrativen Therapie von White und Epston, der Philosophie von Deleuze und Braidotti und aus anderen Quellen gespeist steuern mehr als 45 Autorinnen und Autoren von nationalem und internationalem Rang eine große Bandbreite an neuen kreativen Arbeitsansätzen bei, untermauern narratives Verständnis mit theoretischen Grundlagentexten, präsentieren aktuelle Ergebnisse narrativer Forschung und geben sozialkritischen Perspektiven Raum. Dieses Handbuch eröffnet therapeutisch, beraterisch und wissenschaftlich Tätigen in Zeiten des ständigen gesellschaftspolitischen Wandels eine Vielfalt neuer Denk- und Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Mit Beiträgen von: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brigitte Boothe, Maria Borcsa, Britta Boyd, Rudi Dallos, Dan Dulberger, Sol D’Urso, David Epston, Simon Forstmeier, Thomas Friedrich-Hett, Katarzyma Gdowska, Alma R. Galván-Durán, Deliana Garcia, Julia Hille, Peter Jakob, Milena Kansy, Mathias Klasen, Thomas Klatetzki, Heiko Kleve, Tobias Köllner, Tom Levold, Gabriele Lucius-Hoene, Elisabeth Christa Markert, Afiya Mangum Mbilishaka, Jan Müller, Michael Müller, Jan Olthof, Meinolf Peters, Peter Rober, Tom Rüsen, Carl Eduard Scheidt, Thomas Schollas, Jasmina Sermijn, Monica Sesma, Claudia Schiffmann, Heidrun Schulze, Sally St. George, Jürgen Straub, Arist von Schlippe, Sabine Trautmann-Voigt, Arlene Vetere, Gerhard Walter, Kaethe Weingarten, Dietmar J. Wetzel, Jim Wilson, Dan Wulff. Die Beiträge von David Epston, Jan Olthof und Peter Jakob, Dan Wulff et al., Peter Rober, Jim Wilson (Wie man Bilder für therapeutische Geschichten mit Kindern findet), Rudi Dallos und Arlene Vetere, Kaethe Weingarten et al. sowie Afiya Mangum Mbilishaka wurden von Astrid Hildenbrand aus dem Englischen übersetzt.

Seit über vierzig Jahren ist das Genogramm, die grafische Darstellung familiärer Zusammenhänge, verwandtschaftlicher Strukturen und den Beziehungen untereinander, ein wichtiges Instrument der Systemischen Therapie. Seine Besonderheit ist, dass es als Methode disziplinen- und schulenübergreifend eingesetzt werden kann, wobei sich das Erheben von Informationen mit Interventionsaspekten überschneidet. Genogramme werden zudem im Forschungskontext genutzt und stellen somit ein Verfahren dar, das die Kluft zwischen Forschung und Praxis überbrückt.Renommierte und erfahrene Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, Europa und den USA beschreiben den Einsatz von klassischen Genogrammen in unterschiedlichen Settings. Einzel-, Paar-, Familienberatung und -therapie, Supervision und Weiterbildung sind Kontexte, in denen Genogramme mit spezifischen Zielstellungen eingesetzt werden. Neben klassischen Genogrammen für unterschiedliche Anwendungsfelder werden in diesem Band kreative Weiterentwicklungen vorgestellt, wobei der Einbezug größerer sozialer Systeme eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit erhält. Das Buch ist eine bereichernde Einladung, dieses Instrument in seinen vielfältigen Ausprägungen wieder stärker in den Blick zu nehmen und es kreativ zu nutzen.

Das familiäre Leben, Lieben, Arbeiten findet im 21. Jahrhundert global und digital vernetzt statt. Diesen Entwicklungen können sich systemisch Beratende und Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten nicht entziehen – ob sie sie befürworten oder nicht.Heutzutage teilen sich Familien nicht mehr automatisch einen Haushalt, eine Nationalität oder eine Identität. Neuere Formen familiären Lebens sind weniger an eine einzelne Lokalität gebunden. Durch digitale Medien können wichtige Lebensentscheidungen über Länder und Kontinente hinweg gemeinsam getroffen werden. Mobilität und Migration sind nicht mehr notwendigerweise auf Dauer angelegt und der Begriff der Akkulturation ist neu zu bestimmen, wenn er nicht ideologisch werden soll. Was bedeuten diese Veränderungen der familiären Mobilität und Mediatisierung für systemische Beratung und Therapie? Welche möglichen blinden Flecke sollten bei der Arbeit mit mono- und transnationalen Familien beleuchtet werden? Gelingt es dabei, eine kosmopolitische Haltung einzunehmen und damit nicht nur hilfreich, sondern auch politisch zu werden? Dieser und weiteren Fragen geht Maria Borcsa nach.

Seit über vierzig Jahren ist das Genogramm, die grafische Darstellung familiärer Zusammenhänge, verwandtschaftlicher Strukturen und den Beziehungen untereinander, ein wichtiges Instrument der Systemischen Therapie. Seine Besonderheit ist, dass es als Methode disziplinen- und schulenübergreifend eingesetzt werden kann, wobei sich das Erheben von Informationen mit Interventionsaspekten überschneidet. Genogramme werden zudem im Forschungskontext genutzt und stellen somit ein Verfahren dar, das die Kluft zwischen Forschung und Praxis überbrückt.Renommierte und erfahrene Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, Europa und den USA beschreiben den Einsatz von klassischen Genogrammen in unterschiedlichen Settings. Einzel-, Paar-, Familienberatung und -therapie, Supervision und Weiterbildung sind Kontexte, in denen Genogramme mit spezifischen Zielstellungen eingesetzt werden. Neben klassischen Genogrammen für unterschiedliche Anwendungsfelder werden in diesem Band kreative Weiterentwicklungen vorgestellt, wobei der Einbezug größerer sozialer Systeme eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit erhält. Das Buch ist eine bereichernde Einladung, dieses Instrument in seinen vielfältigen Ausprägungen wieder stärker in den Blick zu nehmen und es kreativ zu nutzen.