Metaframeworks: Transcending the Models of Family Therapy / Edition 1

by Douglas C. Breunlin, Richard C. Schwartz, Betty Mac Kune-Karrer

Overview

An Innovative Approach to Family Therapy

This breakthrough book takes you beyond the theoretical boundariesthat currently constrain family therapy and leads instead to aninnovative approach. The authors analyze the different orientationsof family therapy schools and provide a foundation forunderstanding the fundamental concepts that underlie allapproaches. By integrating these multiple models of therapy, ormetaframeworks, you can improve the flexibility andcomprehensiveness of your treatment-without having to abandon yourtraining. Full of practical ideas, methods, and examples,Metaframeworks offers a wealth of guidelines for applying theseinnovative strategies to a wide range of clinical problems andpopulations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787910709
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/15/1997
Series:	Social & Behavioral Sciences
Edition description:	Revised and Updated
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.96(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

DOUGLAS C. BREUNLIN is vice president and chief operating officer of the Family Institute at Northwestern University.

RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ is a member of the senior faculty of the Family Institute at Northwestern University.

BETTY MAC KUNE-KARRER is director of the Family Systems Program of the Institute for Juvenile Research and clinical associate in psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

FOUNDATIONS OF THE METAFRAMEWORKS PERSPECTIVE.

A Conversation About Metaframeworks.

The Metaframeworks Perspective.

SIX CORE METAFRAMEWORKS.

Of Mind and Self: The Internal Family Systems Metaframework.

Patterns of Interaction: The Sequences Metaframework.

Leadership, Balance, and Harmony: The OrganizationMetaframework.

Beyond the One-Dimensional Life Cycle: The DevelopmentMetaframework.

Unifying Diverse Parameters: The Multicultural Metaframework.

Reweaving Feminism and Systems: The Gender Metaframework.

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE.

A Blueprint for Therapy.

A Case in Point.

Personalizing the Metaframeworks Perspective.

Editorial Reviews

'This book offers something really new. It not only distills muchthat is already known in other approaches, but also, havingextracted the best parts, is able to recombine them into aperspective that integrates other areas often ignored.Metaframeworks is a unique book in the field.' (ContemporaryPsychology)

"Those new to family therapy will find that this book offers aclear introduction to systems thinking and allows for comparisonand contrast of existing models of family therapy across thedimensions represented by the six metaframeworks." (Families inSociety: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services)

From the Publisher

The authors distill the central ideas from the many systems-based models of family therapy, add some concepts that have not been widely used before in family therapy, connect them all to one another in a new way, and apply these ideas to domains that family therapists have not explored from a systems perspective--domains such as intrapsychic process, human development, gender, and culture. For clinicians and theorists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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