Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
Contents
Why Work with Families in Substance Abuse Treatment? -- "Like a Zoom Lens ..." -- Understanding the Family in Context: Family Systems Theory and Practice / Wendy Snyder -- Interdependence: The Family and Individual Development -- Systems Theory: The Basis for Understanding Interdependence -- Human Systems in Perspective: Family, Culture, and Society As Context -- Major Schools of Family Therapy -- Goals and Techniques: What and How Family Therapists Help People Change -- Family Therapy Misunderstood: The Issues of Parent Blame, Biologically Based Disorders, and the Disease Model of Addiction -- Family-Centered Treatment in a Variety of Settings -- What Makes a Difference in Treatment? -- Client Contributions -- The Therapeutic Relationship -- Hope and Expectancy -- Therapy Models -- Working with Families: Basic Skills -- Power Dynamics in Family Therapy -- Emotional Intensity in Family Therapy -- Learning to Join with Families -- Moderating Intensity -- The REM Approach to Working with Conflict -- Domestic Violence and Safety -- Using Goals to Frame Counseling -- Attending to Process -- Assessing Motivation -- Visitors -- Complainants -- Customers -- Working with Visitors and Complainants in the Same Family -- Negotiating a Contract for Therapy -- A Vision of the Future -- Making Goals Measurable -- Resolving Conflicting Goals -- Contract Problems -- Problem and Solution Sequences -- Defining Problem Sequences -- Solution Sequences -- The Ups and Downs of Change -- Making Change Bigger -- When Change Gets Derailed.