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This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts. Copious case examples illustrate how therapists can empower family members to discover their agency, find resources to address tough challenges, and especially repair their damaged relationships. These guidelines also show how to work effectively within multiple relationships in a family without compromising therapist focus, client individuality, or client safety.Included in the coverage:Using the therapeutic alliance to empower couples and familiesCouples’ cross-complaintsEngaging reluctant adolescents…and their parentsParenting in isolation, with or without a partnerChild maltreatment: creating therapeutic alliances with survivors of relational traumaDisadvantaged, multi-stressed families: adrift in a sea of professional helpersEmpowering through the alliance: a practical formulationTherapeutic Alliances with Families offers powerful new tools for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working in couple and family therapy cases with reluctant clients and seeking specific, practical case examples and resources for alliance-related interventions.

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts. Copious case examples illustrate how therapists can empower family members to discover their agency, find resources to address tough challenges, and especially repair their damaged relationships. These guidelines also show how to work effectively within multiple relationships in a family without compromising therapist focus, client individuality, or client safety.

Included in the coverage:

Using the therapeutic alliance to empower couples and familiesCouples’ cross-complaintsEngaging reluctant adolescents…and their parentsParenting in isolation, with or without a partnerChild maltreatment: creating therapeutic alliances with survivors of relational traumaDisadvantaged, multi-stressed families: adrift in a sea of professional helpersEmpowering through the alliance: a practical formulationTherapeutic Alliances with Families offers powerful new tools for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working in couple and family therapy cases with reluctant clients and seeking specific, practical case examples and resources for alliance-related interventions.          

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts. Copious case examples illustrate how therapists can empower family members to discover their agency, find resources to address tough challenges, and especially repair their damaged relationships. These guidelines also show how to work effectively within multiple relationships in a family without compromising therapist focus, client individuality, or client safety.Included in the coverage:Using the therapeutic alliance to empower couples and familiesCouples’ cross-complaintsEngaging reluctant adolescents…and their parentsParenting in isolation, with or without a partnerChild maltreatment: creating therapeutic alliances with survivors of relational traumaDisadvantaged, multi-stressed families: adrift in a sea of professional helpersEmpowering through the alliance: a practical formulationTherapeutic Alliances with Families offers powerful new tools for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working in couple and family therapy cases with reluctant clients and seeking specific, practical case examples and resources for alliance-related interventions.

Un manual práctico para psicoterapeutas, trabajadores y educadores sociales o profesionales de la salud mental que trabajen con casos familiares difíciles y busquen recursos específicos para mejorar la seguridad, autonomía e independencia de sus clientes.La terapia familiar plantea un reto tanto a los miembros de la familia como al terapeuta. El profesional a menudo se encuentra con situaciones difíciles y muchos clientes se sienten presionados u obligados a la terapia. Además, la necesidad de equilibrar deliberadamente las alianzas con múltiples miembros de la familia para ayudar a alcanzar los objetivos terapéuticos se presenta como un desafío. Cuanto más compleja, reacia o conflictiva sea una familia, más esencial será crear alianzas sólidas con cada persona y con la unidad familiar como un todo.Este libro plantea nuevas y potentes herramientas para profesionales que trabajen con casos difíciles y que busque conseguir la autonomía, individualidad y sentido de seguridad del cliente. Usando un modelo creado por los propios autores y de gran resonancia científica en la actualidad (SOFTA), esta obra ofrece una guía sólida y práctica para mejorar la eficacia de la terapia familiar a través de la imprescindible alianza con los clientes.

Adaptarse de forma positiva a las situaciones adversas y al entorno más próximo es un reto al que to-das las personas se enfrentan día a día.Este libro reúne una serie de relatos inspirados en emociones e historias que ocurren y se construyen en la psicoterapia. Cada uno de ellos cuenta un hecho verdadero y capta la experiencia subjetiva y emocional de individuos resilientes con total libertad literaria.Lejos de las explicaciones teóricas, este libro le muestra distintos retratos de resiliencia anónimos para que pueda aprender, indirectamente, de esos momentos reales. Situaciones vividas por personas, en muchos casos niños y adolescentes, que superan de una manera ejemplar grandes adversidades sin llamar la atención, sin ser héroes para nadie más que para su terapeuta.Algunos de los relatos se ven influenciados por momentos mágicos, otros han surgido a distancia o, incluso, han brotado durante el confinamiento obligatorio acontecido por la pandemia del COVID19. En base al origen de las historias, el libro se estructura en tres apartados:•En sesión: agrupa aquellos momentos mágicos que ocurren inadvertidamente en una sesión de terapia. Son instantes que no se pueden explicar con términos teóricos o técnicos de psico-terapia. A veces, ni siquiera su significado se asienta en palabras, solo se revelan en gestos, sueños, lapsus y miradas. •Mensajes y cartas: recoge las situaciones inspiradas en el material escrito que recibe o envía el terapeuta, mediante mensajes, correos electrónicos y cartas. Muchas veces esos mensajes cambian totalmente el sentido de la terapia o arrojan luz sobre cosas de las que el terapeuta no era consciente o no había comprendido. •Historias de vida: reúne auténticas historias de resiliencia y esperanza que pueden resultar inverosímiles. Se presentan como una oportunidad única de conocer en profundidad otras vi-das. Sin duda, este libro le ofrecerá un espacio de lectura donde el aprendizaje, la emoción y la ternura de los relatos no le dejarán indiferente.