By Patricia Minuchin PhD, Jorge Colapinto LPsych LMFT, Salvador Minuchin MD
ISBN-10: 1593853475
ISBN-13: 9781593853471
This extensively followed textual content and sensible guidebook provides the basics of family-based intervention with consumers being affected by continual poverty-related crises and lifestyles stressors. Grounded in Salvador Minuchin's influential systemic version and the large event of all 3 very hot authors, the booklet illustrates leading edge methods for execs inside substance abuse, foster care, and psychological healthiness contexts to construct collaboration with households and different helpers, and to elicit households' strengths.
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Interagency problems crop up surprisingly often in individual cases. When workers make contradictory diagnoses of the family’s needs and spend time arguing diverse views, their behavior may mirror the conflicts and unsuccessful coping patterns of family life. A review of case coordination must always be part of a systems approach. ” Changing the pattern of agency involvement may require something basically simple, such as reducing the number of agencies in the loop so that coordination is more effective.
People who have formed new social units—nontraditional in their attitudes toward gender, toward the definition of family, and toward the creation and rearing of children—will certainly face social barriers, legal problems, and religious criticism from the culture at large. Though people implementing unique lifestyles are generally not poor or in need of help at survival levels, it seems likely that they will be needing services of some kind. We know, for instance, that many people with committed, well thought-out attitudes toward life and relationships find that the raising of children brings on unexpected disagreements, and parents with new and com- 32 FUNDAMENTALS OF THOUGHT AND PRACTICE plex lifestyles are probably not an exception.
It may be useful to note, first, that we’ve had a particular role in the agencies where we’ve worked, and that the professional role of the reader may be either analogous or different. As consultants and trainers, we’re outsiders, which gives us certain advantages: some freshness of perspective when we look at the agency’s structure and way of working, and some freedom from the alliances and tensions that subdivide the insiders. It also brings disadvantages: We must take time to learn how the agency functions, and we miss important subtexts obvious to any member of the staff.
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