Please Help Me With This Family: Using Consultants As Resources In Family Therapy

by Maurizio Andolfi and Russell Haber

Book Overview

Please Help Me With This Family is based on the premise that it is generally useful to expand the therapeutic system when it is not working. By calling in additional resources when therapy reaches an impasse, the therapist is giving two strong messages to stuck families-(1)the admission of the failure of the present system to grow beyond the impasse, and (2) a model of creativity in recruiting resources to improve chances of success. Often, the resources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876307489
• ISBN13: 9780876307489
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"