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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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Me and my shadow : Therapy with sexually abused pre-adolescents

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the use of solution focused techniques with preadolescent children who have been sexually abused and present a therapeutic model that: 1) represents a blending of traditional psychological theoretical ideas with the more recent solution-focused techniques; 2) presents a unique time-limited group format for assisting children to come to know and like their authentic selves.
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Thoughts of an old therapist about the impact of age on her clinical work

TL;DR: The author's experience will encourage older therapists to continue in their practice and the factors which seem to play an important role are the personal events in the clinician's life, the changes which took place in the profession and the life histories of the individuals and families.
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Integrative Approaches to Trauma Work with Victims of Postelection Violence in an African Nation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present integrated techniques of trauma work drawn from both African and Western healing traditions which formed the content of the revised invited address delivered by the author during the workshop, and report on a trauma counselling workshop that was organised for volunteers and aimed at preparing them to gain a uniform orientation and well-defined perspective for working with victims of trauma and violence within the returnee university population.
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18 Working Systematically with Family Violence: Risk, Responsibility, and Collaboration

TL;DR: The definition of violence in family relationships is broad and includes physical violence, sexual abuse, neglect, emotional abuse and other psychological abuse, including coercion, intimidation and verbal abuse.
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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.