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Book SynopsisPlease Help Me With This Family is based on the premise that it is generally useful to expand the therapeutic system when it is not working. By calling in additional resources when therapy reaches an impasse, the therapist is giving two strong messages to stuck families-(1)the admission of the failure of the present system to grow beyond the impasse, and (2) a model of creativity in recruiting resources to improve chances of success. Often, the resources in the large system hold the keys to uncovering and correcting troublesome relationships and behaviors in the smaller system. Please Help Me With This Family is divided into four major sections, each illustrating unique approaches and methods for unlocking resources in family and therapeutic systems. The first section opens with a comprehensive review of the theoretical roots of family therapy consultation, followed by a discussion of the different faces of consultation around the world; a detailed case study of an anorectic family in
Table of ContentsContributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, I. AN OVERVIEW OF CONSULTATION WITH FAMILY THERAPY SYSTEMS, 1. Introduction: Consultative Resources in Family Therapy, 2. The Strange and the Familiar: Cross-Cultural Encounters Among Families, Therapists, and Consultants, 3. The Self of the Consultant: In or Out?, 4. The Inner Life of the Consultant, II. ELICITING RESOURCES FROM THE CLIENTS' SYSTEM, 5. The Child as Consultant, 6. The Family of Origin as Therapeutic Consultant to the Family, 7. With a Little Help from My Friends: Friends as Consultative Resources, 8. The Impact of Multiple Consultants in the Treatment of Addictions, III. ELICITING COLLEGIAL RESOURCES FROM THE THERAPIST'S SYSTEM, 9. The Referrer: Colleague, Client, or Pain in the Ass, 10. Whose Pain Is It?: Consulting at the Interface Between Families and Social-Medical Systems, 11. Consultation as Evaluation of Therapy, 12. Sequential Preventive Meta-Consultation (SPMC): A Model of Collegial Consultation in Systems Therapy, 13. From Impotence to Activation: Conjoint Systemic Change in the Family and School, 14. Peppa: An Indirect Consultation Concerning the Myth of Strength and Weakness, IV. CONSULTATION AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 15. Consultation in the Training Moment, 16. Increasing Mastery: The Effects ofthe Workshop Consultation on the Consultee, 17. The Body as the Expert: Gender Perspective in Consultation with Young Therapists, Name Index, Subject Index
