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What Is Family Therapy? + 6 Techniques and Interventions

By Courtney E. Ackerman — 2022

Family therapy or family counseling is a form of treatment that is designed to address specific issues affecting the health and functioning of a family.

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Helping Families to Change

With an emphasis on learning to change through other modalities than speech, this book discusses the importance of non-verbal body experience and awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships. A number of meditative exercises are included.

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Virgina Satir, James Stachowiak, Harvey Taschman
2011
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The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond

This book represents the evolution of Satir’s ideas over the last twenty years. In clear, plain terms, it details her theoretical position, her strategy in therapy, and how she tailored her interventions to address people’s particular issues.

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Virginia Satir, John Banmen, Jane Gerber, Maria Gomori
1991
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Conjoint Family Therapy

Third edition of this classic on family therapy. The introduction calls it a conceptual frame around which to organize your data and your impressions...a suggested path.

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Virginia Satir
1983
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Satir Step by Step: A Guide to Creating Change in Families

Annotated transcript of Satir conducting family therapy—showing what she’s thinking and how she selects a particular phrase or intervention—and then an account of her theoretical foundations and methods.

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Virginia Satir, Michele Baldwin
1984
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