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Bitter, James, and Gerald Corey. "Family Systems Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1995. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6054.

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Bitter, James, and W. Nicoll. "Family systems therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6057.

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Bitter, James, Manford Sonstegard, and Angela Roberts. "Adlerian Family Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6060.

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Book Summary: Complements and expands upon the "Family Therapy with the Experts" video series produced by the same authors. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the theory and what makes it significant. The authors then delineate the clinical perspective
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Bitter, James Robert, and Rebekah J. Byrd. "Adlerian Family Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/879.

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Book Summary: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field. Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches, and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples, and related interpersonal relationships. Key topics include: Assessment Communication Coping Diversity Interventions and Techniques Life Events/Transitions Sexuality Work/Life Issues, and more Key features include: More than 500 signed articles written by key figures in the field span four comprehensive volumes Front matter includes a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically Back matter includes a history of the development of the field, a Resource Guide to key associations, websites, and journals, a selected Bibliography of classic publications, and a detailed Index All entries conclude with Further Readings and Cross References to related entries to aid the reader in their research journey
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Bitter, James Robert, and Rebecca Byrd. "Adlerian Family Therapy:." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5213.

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Book Summary: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field. Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches, and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples, and related interpersonal relationships. Key topics include: Assessment Communication Coping Diversity Interventions and Techniques Life Events/Transitions Sexuality Work/Life Issues, and more Key features include: More than 500 signed articles written by key figures in the field span four comprehensive volumes Front matter includes a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically Back matter includes a history of the development of the field, a Resource Guide to key associations, websites, and journals, a selected Bibliography of classic publications, and a detailed Index All entries conclude with Further Readings and Cross References to related entries to aid the reader in their research journey
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Bitter, James Robert, and Gerald Corey. "Family Systems Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5217.

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Bitter, James Robert, and Gerald Corey. "Family Systems Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5223.

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Book Summary: The ninth edition of Corey's best-selling THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY helps you develop your own counseling style. With this text, you will gain a firm foundation in the major counseling theories (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, and postmodern approaches) as they are used in practice. By means of the case of "Stan," you will see how the theory presented in each text chapter informs therapeutic decision making. The "DVD for Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Case of Stan and Lecturettes" is an extension of the text. "At a Glance" charts pinpoint the major differences between theories in areas such as multicultural focus, basic philosophies, and limitations.
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Weich, Hellmuth. "Antenarratives in family therapy." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/7982.

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Researchers and policymakers have become increasingly aware of the value of talking therapies and service providers are confronted with the need to deliver these cost-effectively. Amongst service providers, social workers are at the front line of rendering these kinds of services to families and people in the community. Yet in the UK theyoften do not have the training or / ., experience to provide interpersonally mediated talking-therapy services to people who specifically need them. This thesis suggests that a therapeutic approach, informed by the narrative and family therapy traditions, might be particularly useful, and its applicability and explores its theoretical development by means of case examples. Narrative therapy is particularly germane to the concerns of social work, in that it takes an ethical stance on people's stories, and addresses issues of oppression and the consequences of being marginalised. There have been few studies exploring the application and outcome of narrative therapy, mainly due to a lack of appropriate developed methodologies. The goal of this study was to develop a methodology that could indicate changes in the stories of families. Boje's (2001) idea of exploring the 'antenarratives' - the speculative precursors to full-fledged narratives - was adopted for this purpose. The present study tried to answer two research questions. These are whether an antenarrative methodology can be used to illustrate changes in the stories of families in order to assess the outcome of narrative family therapy, and whether this methodology can be used to track both grand and micro narratives and the changes that take place in these stories. The study was conducted from a practitioner-researcher perspective, with the researcher applying a model of narrative family therapy with participants from several families. For darity's sake, this thesis restricts itself to a detailed case-study account of the transcripts of a series of sessions with ') two families. A baseline narrative was analysed after the first session and a second base line after the sixth session. After each of the two analyses, changes were suggested to refine th~ approach. The conclusions reached are that the antenarrative approact) helps to track the development and construction of families' stories. Themaps illustrating how different themes deverop and interact in particular were helpful in illustrating both this and the ways in which stories develop rules and strategies to justify their own existence. It was recommended that the methodology be split into three sections depending on the goal of the study. The first part addresses the initial understanding to help sift through large volumes of data, whilst the grand and micro narratives helping to understand what is happening to stories and why this takes place. The latter part, concerned with narrative type, authorship, and comparative questions, is able to show what has changed and how this has occurred. The theoretical contributions made are that stories should not be seen , as two-dimensional and linear, but as multi-dimensional entities in which multiple stories interact with one another. The idea of a 'Tamara' - a play on multiple stages - is helpful in understanding how stories interact with one another and how the point or angle of view will determine the stories we hear and see. It also highlights the idea that families should not be seen as singlestory entities, but as living multiple stories, and formulates the issues so that they can be applied in social work contexts. The concepts of a grand and micro narrative were easily integrated with narrative therapy's idea of developing thick descriptions of people's lives, i and can turn the observer's gaze back upon the professionals to show how social workers police families through the process of providing help, thereby enhancing the profession's reflective capacities.
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Smietana, Shannon L. "Intermediate Family Therapy Skills." DigitalCommons@USU, 2001. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2624.

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The field of marriage and family therapy (MFT) has prospered since its beginnings nearly 50 years ago. In order to keep the field current and competitive with other related professions, empirical research is necessary. Although there has been an upsurge of research on the effectiveness and specialty areas of MFT, one area has been overlooked: skills. THe empirical research that has been performed has focused its attention on beginning therapists. The current research took the next step in determining family therapy skills and investigated the skills needed by intermediate-level therapists--not beginners, yet also not advanced therapists. This research surveyed a panel of supervision experts in the MFT profession who work with intermediate-level therapists in order to determine the skills that intermediate-level therapists are the same skills thought to be important for beginning therapists, identified in previous research. Of the top 25 ranked items in the Basic Family Therapy Skills project that were rated in the current Intermediate Family Therapy Skills project, 22 of the items' means differed less than .25 in their ratings. Overall, most of the nominated items were rated between "very important" and "important". Implications for training and further research are discussed.
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Sawa, Russell J. "Family therapy and family medicine, an interdisciplinary epistemology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0003/NQ34699.pdf.

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Earl, Ryan Michael. "How Award-Winning Family Therapy Educators Engage Their Students in Meaningful Family Therapy Education." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77948.

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Family therapy educators are currently challenged to teach their students in ways that facilitate competencies, but that are also meaningful to students. In this qualitative study, which serves as the second article of this dissertation, twelve award-winning family therapy educators were interviewed about how they facilitate educational practices that family therapy students have defined as meaningful to them. A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed seven primary themes: 1) relationship building, 2) attending to student development, 3) relevance, 4) actively engaging students in the process, 5) enthusiasm and curiosity, 6) providing and receiving honest feedback, and 7) transparency. The implications of these findings are discussed to support meaningful family therapy teaching practices as well as to offer specific suggestions for how family therapy educators can more deeply engage with their students.
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HIME, THIAGO ANDRADE PINTO. "CONVERSATIONAL STYLE IN FAMILY THERAPY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3713@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O estudo focaliza os estilos conversacionais emergentes da interação entre terapeutas e clientes no contexto de uma primeira sessão de terapia de família a partir de uma perspectiva teórica de integração entre as ordens institucionais e interacionais do discurso. A partir da análise dos dados, percebemos que a sessão de terapia apresenta uma configuração discursiva híbrida, demonstrando características de discurso institucional e de conversa espontânea, evidenciadas pela natureza do piso conversacional - ora configurando-se como típico da fala do especialista, ora apresentando-se colaborativo, característico de uma fala mais livre - observado no decorrer da interação entre terapeutas e clientes. Argumentamos, então, ao articular os conceitos de ordem institucional e ordem interacional, que essas instâncias de fala-em-interação com características de conversa cotidiana são contextualmente relevantes para a realização do mandato institucional peculiar à terapia de família e não desvios da organização institucional.
This study focuses on the emergent conversational styles in the interaction between therapists and clients in a context of a first session of family therapy from a theoretical point-of-view which aims at integrating the institutional and interactional orders of discourse. It was possible to observe that the therapy session presents a hybrid discursive configuration, displaying the characteristics from both institutional and ordinary talk, which is evidenced by the nature of the conversational floor - at times configuring itself as expert talk, at times structuring itself as spontaneous talk -observed throughout the interaction between therapists and clients. Therefore, by articulating the concepts of institutional order and interactional order, we argue that these instances of talk-in-interaction, characterized as ordinary talk, are contextually relevant for the accomplishment of the institutional mandate peculiar to family therapy and not deviations from the institutional organization.
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Bitter, James Robert, and Frank O. Main. "Adlerian Family Therapy: An Introduction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5204.

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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including an integrative approach to Adlerian family therapy, the value of applying an Adlerian model to the special needs of adopting families, and the use of art therapy when working with families.
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Moline, M. E., and James Robert Bitter. "Case Apprach to Family Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5226.

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Book Summary: CASE APPROACH TO COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY, Eighth Edition, vividly illustrates how major counseling approaches work with a single client, Ruth. Dr. Corey provides solid examples of psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, and postmodern theories in action. Dr. Corey applies each therapeutic approach to a single client, illustrating how the various theories work and helping you see exactly how the techniques differ. Well-respected and widely recognized practitioners serve as guest commentators, offering their unique perspectives on Ruth's case. Commentators include founders of some of the therapies, such as William Glasser for choice theory and reality therapy, Arnold Lazarus for multimodal therapy, and Albert Ellis for rational emotive behavior therapy.
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Morrow, Judith Elaine. "Strategic/ecostructural family therapy, a therapy of social action." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23433.pdf.

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Gagalis-Hoffman, Kelly. "Belief transmission through family storytelling : implications for family therapy /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1505.pdf.

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Gagalis-Hoffman, Kelly. "Belief Formation Through Family Storytelling: Implications for Family Therapy." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/741.

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The purpose of this study was to phenomenologically explore and describe the influence family storytelling has on the formation and transference of beliefs. This study was a case study of one family who was identified as engaging in family storytelling. The participants were selected based on their participation in a 2004 pilot study, "A Phenomenological Examination of Family Recreational Storytelling." The results of the 2004 pilot study were analyzed for belief-centered themes. It was upon those themes that questions for this study were based. For this study it was hypothesized that: 1) storytelling strengthens family bonds and connections; 2) storytelling facilitates the creation of individual and familial beliefs; 3) these beliefs either facilitate or constrain the functioning capability of the family and its individual members; and 4) as this phenomenon is more fully understood, powerful interventions can be utilized by therapists and implemented in the field of marriage and family therapy. For the current study, it was concluded that family storytelling influences beliefs, which in turn affects individual action. Additionally, an individual's overall perspective on life is capable of being shaped by the tone and nature of the stories that children are told by their parents. Finally, this study provided insight into how clinicians can coach families to implement storytelling as a therapeutic intervention. Information regarding how parents used stories and the characteristics of the story, storyteller, and setting was outlined. How children used storytelling to form and establish beliefs was explored.
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Beggs, Mary Agnes. "The Family Sand Tray Therapy manual : a new method of family therapy for child focused problems /." Search for this dissertation online, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.

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Policay, Rachel Hequembourg. "Therapy Dogs in Couple and Family Therapy - A Therapist's Perspective." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86137.

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The purpose of this study was to contribute an increased understanding of therapists' experiences working with therapy dogs in couple and family therapy. This qualitative study sought to describe the overall experience of therapists who work with therapy dogs in couple and family therapy, including managing the therapy dog's presence with more than one client and the benefits and challenges of doing so. Eight individuals participated in semi-structured interviews and areas of inquiry included how therapists made the decision to work with a therapy dog, how the therapy dog was managed in session, the impact of the therapy dog's presence (e.g. benefits and challenges), and recommendations for therapists who aspire to work with Canine-Assisted Psychotherapy (CAP) in their practices. The data was analyzed using transcendental phenomenology. Findings from the data analysis suggest that the majority of therapists who use CAP with couples and families find it to be beneficial for the therapists, the couples and families, and the therapy dog, with only a few challenges. Participants focused more on being flexible and observing the system's dynamics surrounding the therapy dog, whereas in individual therapy it appears that therapy dogs are included to fulfill a treatment goal or enhance a therapy model. Additionally, the majority of participants reported on the therapy dog's ability to help the therapist better understand their couple and family clients and overcome particular challenges when working with more than one client. The findings contribute to the CAP literature, have clinical implications, and provide areas for further exploration.
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Pratt, Keeley Lamson Angela. "Medical Family Therapy Meets Childhood Obesity." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2793.

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Regehr-Neufeld, Elsie. "An application of structural family therapy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/MQ32227.pdf.

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Woods, Kathleen Patricia. "Interactional analysis of family therapy sessions /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10909448.

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Mease, Alyson Leigh. "Meta-analysis of family therapy research." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162250.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling Psychology, 2004.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 1, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: B, page: 0566. Chair: Thomas L. Sexton.
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Popkova-Massé, Valentina V. "Impasse in Marriage and Family Therapy." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2519.

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to learn about practicing Marriage and Family Therapists' experiences with therapeutic impasse. The study had several objectives: investigate the incidence of impasse; look into therapists ' experiences with impasse, their attitudes toward it, and their views on its etiology; and explore clinicians' strategies for impasse resolution. One hundred and six clinical members of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) responded to a self-designed questionnaire. The majority of the respondents (83%) reported being stuck in therapy for a few minutes and 35% reported being stuck for three or more sessions during the previous year of their practice. The majority of times, the therapists experienced low to medium stress in impasse and predominantly distressing emotions such as frustration and anxiety. Nonetheless, 86% of the participants reported having positive attitudes toward impasse. This study entertained a qualitative analysis of the first signs of impasse that MFTs reported they noticed as well as therapy situations in which they typically or frequently experienced impasse. Clinicians reported looking into different units of analysis when noticing the first signs of impasse. Most of them observed client signs, fewer noticed signs in the therapeutic system, and the least noticed signs in themselves. Similar to the question of signs of impasse, the therapists concentrated on client, system, and their own characteristics when describing their typical impasse situations. As many as 65% of the responses contained therapists' accounts of typical client dynamics with which they experienced impasse and only 5% of the responses mentioned therapist dynamics. A total of 95% of the sample reported high or very high rates of impasse resolution. ln addition, 88% of the therapists reported having a strategy/strategies for resolving impasse. The study revealed diverse strategies that MFTs used for dealing with impasse: immediate interventions, larger scale interventions, and complete courses of actions. Implications for research, practice, and training are discussed.
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Polaha, Jodi. "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6681.

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Polaha, Jodi. "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6685.

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Cornett, Nicholas A. "Filial Therapy and the Family: Examining the Impact of Child Parent Relationship Therapy (Cprt) on Family Functioning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115058/.

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Research has indicated that filial therapy, an approach in which parents conduct play sessions with their young children, has strong effects on the participating parents and children. As a result, some have speculated that filial therapy improves the family system; however, minimal research exists to support this claim. Using a single-case, time-series design, I examined the impact of child parent relationship therapy (CPRT), a filial therapy approach, on the functioning of 8 diverse families (two-parent, biological children = 4; two-parent, adopted children = 3; single-parent, biological children = 1). 15 parents and 17 children (male = 15, female = 17) participated in the study. All but 1 parent was Caucasian. The children were more ethnically diverse (Caucasian = 5, Hispanic/Caucasian = 5, Hispanic = 3, Asian = 2). Parents’ ages ranged from 29 to 49 and children’s from 2 to 13. Results from simulation modeling analyses (SMA) indicated that 6 of 7 families experienced a statistically significant improvement in their targeted areas of family functioning, and the average effect size was moderate. Results from self-reported measures indicated that 7 families experienced notable improvements in family satisfaction, 4 in cohesion, 3 in communication, and 1 in flexibility. Data from an observational measure rated by independent assessors also indicated improvements pre- to post-intervention: 5 families in flexibility, 4 families in cohesion, and 4 families in communication. All families reported improved functioning in post-intervention interviews. The results support that the benefits of filial therapy may indeed extend to the family system.
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Caners, Marie. "Structural family therapy, a social work practicum." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ53133.pdf.

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Robinson, Donald Keith. "Brief strategic family therapy with Aboriginal families." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62835.pdf.

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Stevenson, Christine. "Negotiating a therapeutic context in family therapy." Thesis, Northumbria University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262566.

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Earle, Marcus R. "The image of marriage and family therapy." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77908.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the image that professions other than marriage and family therapy (MFT) have of MFT as being either a profession or a subspecialty within a larger profession. Lawyers, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers in three states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) were surveyed regarding their beliefs about MFT and nine other occupations. A questionnaire was developed, based upon the sociological literature pertaining to the criteria inherent in all professions. Results indicated that MFT is viewed by lawyers, physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists as being more like a subspecialty within a larger profession than a profession in its own right. Social workers were the only group which felt that MFT is more like a profession. Of note is that MFT was viewed as having a strong code of ethics, its own support structures, and it has demonstrated its usefulness. Its perceived weaknesses lie in the absence of a distinct subject matter, theory and research, methodology, that it is not based upon scholarship and research, and that clients dictate the nature of the service they receive. Future research needs to examine how MFT can change its image.
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Carruthers, William Keene. "Religious orientation in marriage and family therapy." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-172913/.

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London, Diane L. "Integrating spirituality in marriage and family therapy." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999londond.pdf.

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Webb, Nancy. "Trainee Perspectives of Basic Family Therapy Skills." DigitalCommons@USU, 1997. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2658.

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Much has been written about family therapy training and supervision from the perspective of teachers and supervisors. However, the perspective of family therapy trainees is not well represented in the literature. Research employing student responses is common, but results are offered from the perspective of the trainers of family therapy and the subjective experience of students is frequent ly left untapped . One area of training and supervision, basic therapy skills, offers no perspectives from family therapy trainees. This research examined trainee perspectives concerning basic family therapy skills and made comparisons to trainer perspectives regarding the same skills. The findings indicate that some differences exist in those skills valued as most important to students when compared to the same skills evaluated by their instructors. Students place value on self attributes and joining skills whereas teachers and supervisors value professional ethics and the students ' knowledge base when ranking skills.
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Benson, Margo. "Intermediate Trainee Perspectives of Family Therapy Skills." DigitalCommons@USU, 2004. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2739.

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Marriage and family therapy training involves the development of therapy skills that lead to effective treatment, and the family therapy literature recognizes the importance of skill development in training. The training literature dealing with specific skills most often refers to beginning-level skills and obtains data largely from supervisors and trainers. Intermediate-level skills appear to be overlooked and no apparent attention is given from the perspective of trainees. This research examined the perspectives of trainees concerning family therapy skills at the intermediate level. Intermediate trainee perspectives were compared with the perspectives of their supervisors. Comparisons were also made with perspectives of beginning students. The findings indicate that intermediate trainees consider all the skills defined by their supervisors as important, with some differences among the groups in the types of skills preferred. Intermediate trainees continue to value the self attributes and joining skills preferred by beginning students as they make the transition to the professional level, where case management and professionalism skills become more important.
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Rogers, Teresa M. "Healing Partners: The Integration of a Therapy Animal in Feminist Family Therapy." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1428358328.

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Holmes, Sophia Bilicki. "On the nature of expertise in family therapy." Swinburne Research Bank, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net.

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Thesis (PhD) - Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009.
Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, [Faculty of Life and Social Sciences], Swinburne University of Technology - 2009. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268)
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Davies, Belinda. "Adult family members' perspectives on the play of a young disabled child within the family." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2970.

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Kelley, LaFray. "Solution-Focused Couples' Group Therapy." DigitalCommons@USU, 1998. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2573.

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Solution-focused therapy is one of the models of brief family therapy that has come into prominence during the 1980s and 90s. Whereas earlier forms of family therapy concentrated on problems and the behaviors that maintained them, solution-focused therapy places its emphasis on "exceptions" to the problem--times when it is not happening--and seeks to elaborate on and amplify these exceptions. A solution-focused therapy model has been used with individuals, couples, and groups of individuals, but a search of the relevant literature revealed no information on its use with couples' groups. The purpose of this study was to develop a solution-focused treatment plan for a couples ' group and to test its effectiveness. A single-case research design was used with a multiple baseline assessment strategy across subjects. Participants' improvement on measures of overall marital satisfaction and specific goal achievement was considered in evaluation of effectiveness. Five couples completed the program. Marital satisfaction was measured using the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) and the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMS) . On both measures 7 of the 10 participants showed improvement between baseline and intervention scores. Two participants showed little change in scores and 1 subject recorded a decline in score. A self-report goal sheet utilizing a 0-10 scale was used to record progress toward individual and couple goals. Eight participants reported progress, 1 no change, and 1 a decline on both types of goals. The results of this study lend support to the supposition of positive out comes from solution-focused couples ' group work and suggest the need for further study.
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Corturillo, Emily Marie. "Couple and Family Therapy Faculty Members' Level of Training in LGB Affirmative Therapy." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27907.

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This study sought to investigate the training that Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) faculty members have received on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) affirmative therapy. The sample for this study included 65 faculty members from CFT programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education. The on-line data collection for this study included two Likert scale items and one open-ended question. In particular the results suggest that 45.6% of participants reported receiving some LGB affirmative therapy training. Additionally, the thematic analysis revealed six categories: (1) Negligible Training, (2) Informal Training, (3) Coursework, (4) Topic-Driven Training, (5) Tools for Training, and (6) Experience. The findings of this study provided crucial implications for both CFT graduate training programs as well as current CFT faculty members, such as including LGB topics throughout CFT program curricula and faculty members attending sessions at conferences or continuing education workshops on LGB topics.
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McNamee, Carole M. "Bilateral Art: An Integration of Marriage and Family Therapy, Art Therapy, and Neuroscience." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11107.

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Bilateral art is a neurologically-based therapeutic intervention that engages both dominant and non-dominant hands in the creation of images in response to polarized beliefs, cognitions, or feelings. Advances in neuroscience that integrate attachment theory and experience with neuronal development argue for use of the intervention. Retrospective case studies using enhancements of the bilateral art intervention protocol for individuals support these arguments. These case studies demonstrate clinical application of the intervention to a range of presenting problems including differentiation from family of origin, parenting problems, loss, trauma, and self-esteem concerns and provide the first documented evidence of the effectiveness of the bilateral art intervention. Additional case studies reflect development of two different bilateral art intervention protocols that facilitate exploration of relationships. The first protocol adapts the use of bilateral art with individuals to use with couples and it has a dual purpose: to facilitate both openness and integration of polarized thoughts or feelings in one member of a couple and to increase empathy in the other. The second protocol facilitates exploration of and reflection upon a relationship and is applied in the case study to the supervisor-supervisee dyad that is an integral part of the training of marriage and family therapists. Experiences reveal possible contraindications as well as indications for the use of these protocols.
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Hadfield, Karin. "A structural family therapy approach to counselling families." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53097.pdf.

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Reed, Peggy. "Two perspectives on family systems theory and therapy." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Pethica, Stefania. "Applying conversation analysis to family therapy process research." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/applying-conversation-analysis-to-family-therapy-process-research(dc41f1ee-6034-4464-93a9-83926453c64d).html.

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This manuscript explores the application of Conversation Analysis, an empirical approach to the study of naturally occurring everyday interactions, to the field of family therapy process research. Conversation Analysis is claimed to have the potential to benefit family therapy process research by providing evidence of effective therapist-family interactions and producing evidence of in-session change. However, these claims have rarely been substantiated by references to occasions in which this has been the case. This manuscript aims to address these claims in two ways: firstly by reviewing all the literature on family therapy process research that has adopted Conversation Analysis as a methodology of choice; secondly by providing an example of how Conversation Analysis can be used to explore the interactional consequences of a specific therapeutic strategy, psychoeducation, within the context of a feasibility study for a novel family therapy intervention. Finally, this manuscript provides a reflection on future research directions, theoretical developments and the clinical implications of using this methodology, thus providing a comprehensive picture of the application of Conversation Analysis in the field of family therapy process research as well as some evidence of its potential practical utility.
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Hoff, Christopher Russell. "Developmental Pedagogy in Marriage and Family Therapy Education." Thesis, Loma Linda University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10161158.

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New practice domains are opening up for practitioners of family therapy in the medical, organizational, and human relations fields. In this new environment, family therapy educators and supervisors are required to cross the epistemological spaces of scientist-practitioner, postmodernism, and critical theory. These new possibilities require that family therapist educators become comfortable moving between multiple epistemologies. This poses increasing challenges that will require a hybridization of knowledge and practice approaches in MFT education.

Through focus groups consisting of 34 participants, all of who were in their first quarter of a Master’s degree program in Marriage and Family Therapy. We found a rich set of themes that reflect the experiences of students in their first quarter of learning multiple, potentially contradictory theories. The data that emerged reflect both the deep and varied student experiences that took place as they were introduced to multiple perspectives in their first quarter, as well as student desires that they would have liked to have had met during their experience. The results in each of these areas uniquely inform potential future MFT pedagogical practices.

Keywords: pedagogy, epistemology, family therapy, narrative analysis

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Bitter, James. "Self-Disclosure and Storytelling in Adlerian Family Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6117.

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Hudgins, Cathy Mills. "Region as a Cultural Context in Family Therapy." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26521.

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Environmentally-constructed, regional culture as defined by geographic place is not generally included in family therapy research and training concerning race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other contextual factors. This grounded theory research project explores how practitioners working with families acknowledge, access, and use region as a cultural context in their service delivery, specifically in the New River Valley region of Southwest Virginia. Ecological theory, social construction theory, family systems theory, and cultural competency perspectives were used to frame the research questions, to develop the interview protocol, and to support the analysis of the properties and dimensions of the concepts and categories that emerged from the data analysis. The resulting grounded theory revealed that clinicians working with regionally distinct clients combine a client-centered approach with multiple-layers of regional knowledge and self-awareness.
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McMonigle, Catherine Lorraine. "Parents' and Children's Experiences in Family Play Therapy." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32448.

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Family Play Therapy is a creative therapeutic approach to engage children in therapy in the context of their family system. While the young field of family play therapy offers both the benefits of family therapy and play therapy, research concerning its efficacy is largely unavailable. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experience of family play therapy in context of child sexual abuse treatment, from the perspective of child clients and their parents. A secondary purpose of this descriptive study was to provide contextual data to inform future quantitative research on family play therapy. In separate, semi-structured and open-ended interviews, eight children and their non-offending parents described their therapy experience of the family puppet interview intervention, in which they created and acted out a story with puppets. Participantsâ descriptions of their experience revealed five broad themes: (1) the perceived benefits of play (what participants liked), (2) parents feelings about play as a medium, (3) parentâ s perceived role in the session, (4) childrenâ s thoughts about family participation in therapy, and (5) suggestions for improvement. A discussion of the findingsâ relevance to previous literature, clinical practice and future research, as well as the limitations of this study is provided
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Dragomir, Renne Rodriguez. "Does adherence to IHBT improve family therapy outcomes?" University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1587646811820939.

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Juleff, Donna. "Client satisfaction survey of in-home family therapy." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001juleffd.pdf.

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