Clinical Interventions in Systemic Couple and Family Therapy

1. Front Matter

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2. Family Therapy and Clinical Psychopathology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Family Therapy of Psychosis: A Reconfirmation Process

      • Juan Luis Linares

      Pages 3-13

   3. Borderline Personality Disorder Storyboard from the Systemic Family Therapist’s Perspective

      • Luigi Cancrini, Francesca Romana De Gregorio

      Pages 15-29

   4. Systemic Couple Therapy as a Tool to Approach Depressive Disorders

      • Carmen Campo

      Pages 31-44

   5. The Hungry Brain: A Revision of the Concept of Anorexia Nervosa and a New Direction for Systemic Therapy

      • Jorge De Vega, José Soriano

      Pages 45-62

   6. A Challenge to Borderline Personality Diagnosis: Investigating Post-traumatic Personality Disorders. Connecting Personality Traits to Development in Family

      • Matteo Selvini

      Pages 63-74

3. New Resources in Systemic Therapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. The Importance of Being Siblings

      • Rodolfo de Bernart

      Pages 77-85

   3. What If There Is Another Person in His/Her Life? Infidelity in Couple Therapy

      • Annette Kreuz

      Pages 87-101

   4. Love, Sexuality, and Aging: Reflections from Couple Therapy

      • Ana Maria Gomes

      Pages 103-117

   5. Psychotherapy and Technology: Relational Strategies and Techniques for Online Therapeutic Activity

      • Gianmarco Manfrida, Valentina Albertini, Erica Eisenberg

      Pages 119-137

4. Systemic Interventions in Different Contexts

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Future Strategies on the Treatment of Drug Addiction. Psychotherapeutic Work with the Families of Substance Abusers. Thoughts from Europe

      • Juan Antonio Abeijón

      Pages 141-157

   3. The Multi-problem Family Generating Multiple Problems

      • Maurizio Coletti

      Pages 159-175

   4. The Multifamily Group in Severe Psychiatric Pathologies

      • Norberto Barbagelata

      Pages 177-190

   5. Family Therapy with Involuntary Clients. The Therapeutic Alliance as a Major Key to Therapy Success

      • Ana Paula Relvas, Luciana Sotero

      Pages 191-203

   6. Systemic Intervention on Disabilities

      • Javier Bou

      Pages 205-219

   7. The Mourning Family: Diagnosis and Systemic Intervention in Dysfunctional Family Grief

      • Roberto Pereira

      Pages 221-237

5. Correction to: Family Therapy with Involuntary Clients. The Therapeutic Alliance as a Major Key to Therapy Success

   • Ana Paula Relvas, Luciana Sotero

   Pages E1-E1

This timely update presents modern directions in systemic therapy practice with couples and families, focusing on clinical innovations from Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Top therapists discuss their breakthrough family work in treating familiar pathologies such as depression, borderline personality disorder, infidelity, and addictions, providing first-hand insight into meeting relational dysfunction with creativity and resourcefulness. The book applies novel conceptualizations and fresh techniques to complex situations including multi-problem families, involuntary clients, disability-related issues, anorexia, love and sex in aging, and family grief. From tapping into the strengths of siblingship to harnessing the therapeutic potential of the Internet, the book’s cases illustrate the rich variety of opportunities to improve client outcomes through systemic couple and family therapy.



This practical guide:

• Demonstrates strategies for therapists to improve practice
  
• Exemplifies methods for reducing the gap between clinical theory and practice
  
• Identifies multiple dimensions of systems thinking in case formulation and therapy
  
• Offers new insights into treating classic and recent forms of psychopathology
  
• Provides a representative picture of couple and family therapy in southern Europe

Clinical Interventions in Systemic Couple and Family Therapy is of particular relevance to practitioners and clinicians working within couple and family therapy, and is also of interest to other professionals working in psychotherapy and professional mental health services.

• family and couple therapy in Europe
• clinical practice in Europe
• family therapy in addiction
• intervention on borderline disorders
• dysfunctional interaction patterns
• relational history
• resistant depression
• severe psychiatric pathology
• therapeutic alliance
• nervous anorexia
• systemic therapy
• nourishment disorder
• post-traumatic personality disorder
• therapeutic process
• intersubjectivity
• family and personality development
• sibling influences on behavior

• Vasco-Navarra School of Family Therapy, Bilbao, Spain

  Roberto Pereira

• Department of Psychiatry, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Juan Luis Linares

Dr. Roberto Pereira is a psychiatrist and systemic family therapist. He is currently the Director of the Vasco-Navarra School of Family Therapy in Bilbao, Spain, as well as President of the European and Latin American Network of Systemic Schools (RELATES). He is also a past President of the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy Associations.

Dr. Juan Juis Linares is a psychiatrist, psychologist, and systemic family therapist and professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is also currently Director of the Psychotherapy Unit and the Family Therapy School at the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona, and is a former President of the European Family Therapy Association as well as Honorary President of European and Latin American Network of Systemic Schools (RELATES).

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