"In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr. Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy model for work with youngsters and their families. This model centers diagnosis and treatment around the concept of the Functional Hypothesis, which views symptoms as adaptive and survival.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages145-150) and index.
Contents
The essence of emotional healing -- Historical roots of the internal family systems therapy metamodel -- Family dynamics : the dance of adaptation -- Clinical assessment of children and their families -- Organizing concepts and principles for treatment of children and their families -- Intrapsychic treatment of children -- Healing attachment injuries of children -- Guiding the process of self-led parenting -- Working with siblings -- Working with teens -- Inside the child's body -- The child in larger contexts -- Frequently asked questions in working with the internal family systems metamodel -- A closer look at two applications of the internal family systems metamodel -- The real picture.