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The death of resistance.
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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.Abstract:
For any conceptual distinction to be useful (5) within the field of family therapy, it needs to lead to some clear answers to the question: What does this distinction mean for clinical practice? The distinction between (a) the family-as-a-system, and (b) family-therapy-as-a-system leads to a clinical perspective, or stance, that includes a focus on changing. Once this focus is clear, the therapist can help to create the expectation of changing and consequently promote changing. That is, techniques can be developed using positive feedback loops. Moreover, this distinction leads to a therapeutic stance in which not changing is a surprise.read more
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Brief therapy: focused solution development
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How to Interview for Client Strengths
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Feed‐Forward: Future Questions, Future Maps
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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The Family Factor: The Impact of Family Relationship Dynamics on Business‐Owning Families during Transitions
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Conjoint family therapy. Some considerations on theory, technique, and results.
Don D. Jackson,John H. Weakland +1 more
TL;DR: The Family Therapy in Schizophrenia Project of the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation (PAMRF) as discussed by the authors was one of the first large-scale studies of conjoint family therapy with schizophrenia patients.
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Family Systems: Morphostasis and Morphogenesis, or “Is Homeostasis Enough?”
TL;DR: The role of family homeostasis in Conjoint Family Therapy is reviewed and examined from the standpoint of the Sociocultural Systems framework as presented by Buckley as discussed by the authors, and an attempt is made to relate them to a view of the family.
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Some conceptual distinctions are more useful than others.
TL;DR: The field of family therapy, now involved in an explicit epistemological and paradigmatic shift, has various muddles of each kind as mentioned in this paper, and it is suggested that making a distinction between "the study of the family-as-a-system" and the study of family-therapy-as a system leads to some useful and clear metaphors.