International Family Systems Therapy

Global Perspectives on the Healing Power of Families

Maurizio Andolfi, Peter Fraenkel, Antonello D'Elia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

402 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032882338 (ISBN)

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Detailing a wide range of systemic approaches to mental health and relational issues, this essential guide demonstrates the power of family systems therapy as a means of fostering genuine human, relational, and societal transformation.

With contributions from more than 50 internationally recognized family therapy scholars and practitioners, this text illustrates how family systems therapy can provide a comprehensive, effective, and more humane approach to the dominant paradigm of mental health treatment. The book offers an integrative approach that blends action-oriented techniques with multigenerational and multicultural insights, and provides an understanding of children and adolescents’ issues, couple crises, and losses and life adversities, and shares stories of resilience from families all over the world. Chapters explore how family and couple therapy can be used to address a variety of challenges, such as engaging children’s voices in sessions, couples in which a partner suffers from a chronic illness or disability, strengthening family healing and resilience, teens at risk of suicide, the intricacies of power dynamics in couples, infertility, and much more.

This text is essential reading for mental health and human service practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, as well as graduate-level trainees in all mental health disciplines.

Maurizio Andolfi, MD, is an internationally renowned child psychiatrist, Director of the Family Therapy Academy in Rome, Italy, and Editor-in-Chief of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also Director of the Perth Circle for the Advancement of Family Therapy in Western Australia. Antonello D’Elia, MD, is a psychiatrist, trainer, and supervisor of the Family Therapy Academy, Italy, and Deputy Editor of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also President of Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica. Peter Fraenkel, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York and a former faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

PART 1

Get Rid of Labels and Pills: Empowering Children as an Invaluable Resource

1. From Child-problems to Family Resources: A Healing Process

by Maurizio Andolfi

2. Amplifying Children’s Voices: Empowering Distressed Children as Family Healers

by Wai Yung Lee

3. Imagination and Creativity in Family Therapy with Children Labelled with Autism Spectrum Disorder

by Michele Zappella

4. Exploring the Psychological Landscape of Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Family Approach

by Tiziana Bufacchi

5. The Community Project in the Schools of the Family Institute of Porto Alegre, Brazil: Description and Purpose

by José Ovídio Copstein Waldemar (2), Breno Irigoyen de Freitas, Klaus Iglesias Hensel, & Lisiane Milhoranza Rech

6. “Tell me a Story…mine!”: Children and Parents Talk about Adoption

by Alessandra Santona and Laura Gorla

Part 2

Adolescents at High Risk: How to Listen to Their Voice

7. The Silent Adolescent in the Family Therapy Session

by Peter Rober

8. Confrontative Intervention in Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

by Noga Nabarro

9. Adolescent Family Therapy: Considerations of Systemic and Developmental Lenses

by Christine Senediak and Isabelle Feijo

10. De Corporis Momentum: The Importance of the Body in Family Therapy.

by Dominique Bardou

11. Suicide Attempts in Adolescence: The Line Where Life and Death Meet

by Maurizio Andolfi

12. Working with High-Risk Adolescents in Combined Group and Family Therapy

by José Barrera

13. Gender Variance in Adolescence

by Patrizia Petiva (2), Eva Gerino, & Rossella Siragusa

14. Multigenerational Therapy and Violence Against Children

by Alejandro Astorga and Alicia Cruzat

15. Social Withdrawal in Adolescence

by Francesca Ferraguzzi

16. Silent Emotions: Embodied Metaphors in Early Onset Eating Disorders in Adolescence and Pre-Adolescence

by Camillo Loriedo

17. Therapeutic Work with Families and Adolescents at Risk in a Western Australian Mental Health Service

by Giulia Pace

Part 3

Family and Social Dimensions of Couple Crises and Divorce

18. Resolving Power Struggles in Last Chance Couple Therapy

by Peter Fraenkel

19. Treating Same Sex Couples: Harnessing the Power of Love

by Michael LaSala

20. Intergenerational Couple Therapy

by Maurizio Andolfi and Anna Mascellani

21. Families Created from the Heart

by Natividat Perez and Carmen Catalayud Lliso

22. Impact Techniques in Systemic Therapy

by Umberta Telfener

23. Family/Couple Therapy through the Lens of Intimate Partner Violence: No Limits or Know Your Limits?

by Elisa Agostinelli and Brian Sullivan

24. Serious Illness and Disability: Helping Couples Meet the Challenges

by John S. Rolland

25. Children and Parents in Contemporary Families: From Boundary Ambiguity to the Construction of New Belongings

by Salvatore D’Amore

Part 4

Trauma, Loss and Resilience: The Healing Power of the Extended Family and Community

26. Changing the Subject: From System to Culture to the Event

by Vincenzo Di Nicola and John Farnsworth

27. Loss and Resilience through Turbulent Times: Meaning Making, Hope, and Transformation

by Froma Walsh

28. Resignification: The Gift of Elaboration and Processing a Traumatic Experience

by Shulamit Graber

29. Remembering Helps Us Forget

by Antonello D’Elia

30. Young Children Remember: The Family as a Resource in the Treatment of Pre-verbal Trauma

by Arianne Struik and Raffaella Salvo

PART 5

Cultural Diversity, Migration and Social Discrimination

31. Family Transformation and Therapy in Malaysia: A Multicultural Mosaic Shaped by Historical Transformation

by Bawany Chinapan and Wai-Eng Ding

32. Migration in Seven Words: An Inspirational Tool for Thinking about Family Therapy

by Ivy Daure

33. Cultural Diversity as a Resource in Family Therapy

by Lorena Cavalieri

34. Empowering and Supporting Japanese Families: A Gender Perspective

by Tazuko Shibusawa (2), Shinichi Nakamura, Takeyoshi Nozue, Noriko Odagiri, & Mami Onishi

35. The Inventiveness of Loss Narratives of Trauma and Resilience among Palestinian Refugees Forcibly Displaced in Israel

by Mustafa Qossoqsi

36. Interethnic Marriages and Family Dynamics in Senegal

by Geneviève Platteau and Waly Fatou Diop

37. Introducing Climate Change in Mental Health Practice

by Olga Garcia Falceto (2), Enrique Falceto de Barros, & Luisa Falceto de Barros

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	940 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781032882338 / 9781032882338
Zustand	Neuware