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Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth
An affirming guide equipping family therapists to effectively incorporate positive psychology within their practices
The next step in the evolution of family therapy, positive psychology has enabled family therapists to help families--whatever their form--to build upon their strengths, overcome dysfunction, and move to new levels of harmony and thriving. Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth integrates positive psychology into traditional family therapy, presenting therapists with best-practice wisdom and evidence-based clinical tools to help?turn dysfunctional or troubled families into flourishing families.
Contributing a unique perspective to the field that combines the research, practice, and theory associated with the latest in positive psychology and family therapy, Positive Psychology and Family Therapy equips therapists to cultivate virtues, such as empathy, kindness, responsibility, involvement, social justice, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and volunteerism.
Filled with homework assignments and exercises that integrate positive techniques and interventions, this book establishes and promotes the family as the basic building block of the individual and the community. Offering therapists with no previous introduction to positive psychology a solid foundation, this text includes essential discussion of family interventions and techniques that demonstrate positive family therapy, as well as case examples that bring the concepts covered to life in real and accessible scenarios.
Authors Collie Conoley and Jane Close Conoley draw from their years of experience working with families to offer an integrated, practical?approach that allows family therapists to utilize positive psychology principles effectively within their practices.
The next step in the evolution of family therapy, positive psychology has enabled family therapists to help families--whatever their form--to build upon their strengths, overcome dysfunction, and move to new levels of harmony and thriving. Positive Psychology and Family Therapy: Creative Techniques and Practical Tools for Guiding Change and Enhancing Growth integrates positive psychology into traditional family therapy, presenting therapists with best-practice wisdom and evidence-based clinical tools to help?turn dysfunctional or troubled families into flourishing families.
Contributing a unique perspective to the field that combines the research, practice, and theory associated with the latest in positive psychology and family therapy, Positive Psychology and Family Therapy equips therapists to cultivate virtues, such as empathy, kindness, responsibility, involvement, social justice, work ethic, teamwork, purpose, and volunteerism.
Filled with homework assignments and exercises that integrate positive techniques and interventions, this book establishes and promotes the family as the basic building block of the individual and the community. Offering therapists with no previous introduction to positive psychology a solid foundation, this text includes essential discussion of family interventions and techniques that demonstrate positive family therapy, as well as case examples that bring the concepts covered to life in real and accessible scenarios.
Authors Collie Conoley and Jane Close Conoley draw from their years of experience working with families to offer an integrated, practical?approach that allows family therapists to utilize positive psychology principles effectively within their practices.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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October 25, 2020
This book merges family therapy iwth positive psychology. It provides an overview of main concepts on family systems therapy (something I was not too familiar with ) and also a brief overview of positive psychology principles as applied to family systems.
The main idea is to not focus on dysfunctions or problems but formulate positive goals that the family can work towards and equipping the family with tools and mechanisms (like capitalizing or catching the child doing good etc ) so that they can flourish and be happy.
I really liked the family systems approach where all people in the family are interconnected and instead of focusing on linear causation one works with circular causation and simultaneous interventions and change.
The book has been very well written with a couple of cases illustrating the therapeutic approach in the end.
The main idea is to not focus on dysfunctions or problems but formulate positive goals that the family can work towards and equipping the family with tools and mechanisms (like capitalizing or catching the child doing good etc ) so that they can flourish and be happy.
I really liked the family systems approach where all people in the family are interconnected and instead of focusing on linear causation one works with circular causation and simultaneous interventions and change.
The book has been very well written with a couple of cases illustrating the therapeutic approach in the end.
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