Familien helfen FamilienDie Arbeit mit Gruppen kann langen Wartelisten entgegenwirken und den Beteiligten zudem die Erkenntnis vermitteln, dass andere Menschen mit ähnlichen Problemen zu kämpfen haben. Daraus resultieren häufig eine verbesserte Selbstreflexion und gegenseitige Unterstützung.Die Multifamilientherapie (MFT) verstärkt diesen Effekt noch, weil nicht Einzelpersonen aufeinandertreffen, sondern ganze Familien. Familiäre Dynamiken, die mit den jewei...

Eia Asen und Emma Morris beschreiben in diesem Buch einen innovativen Ansatz der Arbeit mit Familien, deren Kinder unter der feindseligen Beziehung ihrer Eltern leiden – vor, während oder nach einer gerichtlichen Auseinandersetzung. Es erläutert ein Modell therapeutischer Arbeit, das Kinder, ihre Eltern, die erweiterte Familie und ihr soziales Netz einbezieht. Der Ansatz zielt darauf, Kinder vor den Konflikten ihrer Eltern zu schützen und ihnen dadurch eine gedeihliche Beziehung zu beiden ...

Was in einem anderen Menschen wirklich vorgeht, lässt sich nur erahnen. Wer sein Verhalten verstehen will, ist auf Interpretationen angewiesen. Dieses Mentalisieren kann jedoch durch eigene Vorstellungen eingeschränkt sein, was wiederum mögliche Problemlösungen behindert. In einer Beratung oder Therapie geht es deshalb auch darum, diese Hemmnisse zu erkennen und auszuräumen und so die Mentalisierungsfähigkeit der Klientin, des Klienten wiederherzustellen. Eia Asen und Peter Fonagy kombinie...

"Es ist eine allgemeine Erkenntnis, dass Menschen in Konfliktsituationen für das eigene Problem meist eine eingeengte Sichtweise haben, aber eine hohe Sensibilität für ähnliche Probleme anderer." Diese Einsicht stand am Anfang der Multifamilientherapie (MFT), die in den USA und Großbritannien entstanden ist und zuletzt im deutschsprachigen Raum ganz neue Anwendungsbereiche erobert hat, so etwa in der Schul-, der Kinder- und Jugendsozialarbeit. Eia Asen und Michael Scholz, Pioniere der MFT,...

Dall'incontro di due tra i massimi esperti di psicoterapia sistemica e di mentalizzazione nasce questo contributo: un manuale che, in modo semplice e al tempo stesso fondato su solide basi scientifiche, offre gli strumenti necessari per lavorare sulle e con le relazioni. In che modo coniugare la mentalizzazione e la terapia sistemica? Come far riconoscere gli stati mentali propri e altrui? Come impostare le sedute? Quali dimensioni e variabili tenere in considerazione? Il volume risponde a...

Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on ways to help parents, children, and adolescents to overcome blocks in how they relate to one another by gaining a deeper understanding of--and openness to--each other's experiences and points of view. The volume draws on the empirically supported mentalization-based treatment ...

High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Tiesdescribes an innovative approach for families where children are caught up in their parents’ acrimonious relationship - before, during and after formal legal proceedings have been initiated and concluded.This first book in a brand-new series by researchers and clinicians at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) outlines a model of therapeutic work which involves child...

This book provides a pragmatic guide to multi-family therapy (MFT), as employed in a variety of different settings: health, social care and education.Bringing six to eight families together to work on similar issues in MFT has become an increasingly successful intervention that encourages service user-participation and moves towards a more patient- and family-centred care. This text describes the concepts, therapeutic stances, interventions and techniques of MFT, bringing together ...

Based on a research project which demonstrated the effectiveness of systemic therapy, this book can be used as the basis of a training programme in systemic couple therapy, as a phase in the treatment of depression. It describes in explicit detail the range of techniques used and can therefore also inform the next generation of research studies, which will be greatly facilitated by this work.

The provision of suitable mental health care is one of the major tasks facing general practitioners and their teams. Family-oriented primary care has moved from doctor-controlled to patient-centred consultations, with a greater emphasis on collaboration. The systemic framework uniquely lends itself to this shift in emphasis, as it views the delivery of care in social rather than merely medical terms. There is now a strong evidence base for the efficacy of systemic approaches in managing ma...

If a troubled family contains the resources to solve its own problems, then why not bring such families together, to share their experiences and support each other? This is the approach of the Marlborough Family Service, the institution at the forefront of development for child-protection cases, school-based interventions and family therapy for ethnic-minority communities for over twenty years. In this book three long-standing staff members describe for the first time their innovative work...

Multi-Family Therapy (MFT) involves the bringing together of different families in a therapeutic context in order to work jointly to overcome each of their specific and very individual problems. This innovative book combines the theory and concepts of MFT with detailed practical examples of techniques and exercises that have been proven to help with problematic children, teenagers and adults.In this book Asen and Scholz discuss how MFT has been developed over the past 30 years and ...