Evolution of a Treatment Approach to Families: Group Family Therapy

Family Therapy for Trauma: An Integrative Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST) Approach offers a stand-alone family therapy treatment approach for trauma, addressing a gap in the trauma treatment literature. The book outlines a flexible yet structured family therapy approach that can integrate intervention procedures from any of the evidence-based manualized trauma treatments into a family treatment framework. The authors show how this flexibility offers great advantages for engaging trauma survivors and their families into treatment, who otherwise would not cooperate with standard trauma treatment approaches. They show how tracking and utilizing client and family frames in the organizing of treatment enhances both family engagement and the healing process in general. We show the role of family interactional patterns in the perpetuation of trauma symptoms and how changing these patterns leads to the resolution of trauma symptoms. The book demonstrates how tracking and enlarging interactional exceptions plays a key role in overcoming problems related to trauma. For clients who are not interested in trauma treatment, the authors show how treatment focusing on whatever issue they are willing to address can simultaneously resolve their trauma symptoms.

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Interpersonal Biofeedback: Biofeedback in a Relationship Context

Biofeedback ◽

10.5298/1081-5937-43.4.07 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 153-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Steven C. Kassel ◽

John LeMay

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Family Therapy ◽

Marriage And Family Therapy ◽

Couples Therapy ◽

Biofeedback Therapy ◽

Relational Therapy ◽

Marriage And Family ◽

Relationship Context ◽

The 1960S ◽

Group Family

Marriage and family therapy has had well over 70 years of research and clinical practice. The roots of biofeedback therapy go back to the 1960s for both research and clinical practice. This article reviews both couples therapy and group family therapy to illustrate the integration of psychophysiologically based interventions (interpersonal biofeedback), into relational therapy contexts. It also illustrates the utility of this approach for both clients and clinicians.

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Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780190926632.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 38-53

Author(s):

Dennis C. Daley ◽

Antoine Douaihy

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Family Therapy ◽

Case Management ◽

Substance Use Disorders ◽

Treatment Approach ◽

Treatment Programs ◽

Individual Group ◽

Community Recovery ◽

Medical Evaluation

People do not respond the same way to any one particular treatment approach in any particular setting. Some need more intensive and/or extensive treatment than others. It is not unusual for a person with a severe SUD to engage in several episodes of treatment before sustaining recovery. For those who are physically addicted, medical detoxification may be needed before they can benefit from other types of treatment. Treatment is helpful only to the extent that a person sticks with it and uses the guidance of professionals and peers in recovery. The person with an SUD may use any combination of treatment programs, services, or community recovery supports. Treatment includes detoxification; rehabilitation; individual, group, and family therapy; other services (case management, vocational or leisure counseling, medical evaluation); and medications.

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A Survey of the use of Family Therapy by Caseworkers

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438947005100202 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 76-81

Author(s):

Mary K. Reynolds ◽

Joseph T. Crymes

Keyword(s):

Family Therapy ◽

Random Sample ◽

Treatment Approach

The extent to which caseworkers currently use family therapy as a diagnostic-treatment approach is estimated from a random sample of caseworkers in NASW

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Group Treatment that Helps Abusive or Neglectful Parents

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438948506600906 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 66 (9) ◽

pp. 556-562 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ann Tuszynski

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

Family Therapy ◽

Family Life ◽

Group Work ◽

Group Treatment ◽

Treatment Approach ◽

General System ◽

General System Theory ◽

Structural Family Therapy ◽

Structural Family

This article addresses the maturational and closure problems of women who, because they neglect or abuse their children, have been referred to a family life center for treatment. The treatment approach blends general system theory, structural family therapy, and group work in a day program.

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