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Feed‐Forward: Future Questions, Future Maps

Peggy Penn
- 01 Sep 1985 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 3, pp 299-310
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Feed-forward is a technique that encourages families to imagine the pattern of their relationships at some future point in time as mentioned in this paper, in conjunction with positive connotation, put families in a metaposition to their own dilemmas and thus facilitate change by opening up new solutions for old problems.
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"Feed-forward" is a technique that encourages families to imagine the pattern of their relationships at some future point in time. Questions about the future, in conjunction with positive connotation, put families in a metaposition to their own dilemmas and thus facilitate change by opening up new solutions for old problems.

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Inside out, or outside in: meeting with couples

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework of behaviours, emotions, feelings, meanings and beliefs for gendered stories is proposed to help link the perspectives of interpersonal and intrapersonal themes.
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Continued Evolution of Family Therapy: The Last Twenty Years

TL;DR: There have been numerous accounts of the history and major trends and issues in family therapy during the field's first three decades in the literature (see for example: Broderick & Shrader, 1981; Framo, 1972; Guerin, 1976; Kaslow, 1973, 1977, 1980; Nichols, 1986, 1999 for some varied depictions, written from each respective author's unique lens).
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Impasse and change: a systemic/strategic view of the therapeutic system*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how clients and therapists, together, create impasses or change and propose a series of questions based on this model for analyzing and resolving impasses.
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Dealing with Loss in the Family Context

TL;DR: A family systems analysis of two therapy cases contradicts conventional views of mourning as being primarily an individual experience or measurable most importantly in terms of short-term impact on health.
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Epistemology, systems theories and the theory of family therapy

TL;DR: The authors examines the theoretical dilemmas which arise from the polarization of family epistemologies into the pragmatic and the aesthetic, and examines the problem of ascertaining the truth of any theory from three different perspectives: truth as fact, truth as coherence, and truth as usefulness.
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Mind and Nature

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Mind and Nature

TL;DR: For instance, it has been argued that knowledge of the external world is not the end of knowledge, but only a means as discussed by the authors, and that the only cognitive experiences the human mind is capable of are ideas and perceptions.
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The death of resistance.

Steve de Shazer
- 01 Mar 1984 - 
TL;DR: The distinction between the family-as-a-system and family-therapy-as a-system leads to a clinical perspective, or stance, that includes a focus on changing as mentioned in this paper.