Overview
- Provides the first exploration of systemic therapy as long term practice
- Features internationally renowned contributors with extensive experience as practitioners and researchers
- Appeals to professionals and researchers in the field of ‘systemic family therapy’
Part of the book series: Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy (PTCP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Long Term Systemic Work with Couples and Families
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Long Term Systemic Work with Individuals
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Long Term Systemic Work with Professional Practitioner Groups
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Long Term Systemic Work with Family Businesses
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About this book
Systemic psychotherapy has long been conceptualised and practiced as brief psychotherapy, in both the public sector and in independent practice, but it is now increasingly becoming a longer term practice.
This ground-breaking book examines the ways in which systemic theory can accommodate and formulate long term practice, and locates the boundaries of the systemic theories that both help to explain and give direction to such work. In doing so, it asks important questions such as: at what point might a practitioner need to incorporate and integrate other explanatory models into their systemic thinking? What does this mean for systemic practice? How does the relative longevity of the work impact the way practitioners build and maintain therapeutic relationships with the relational systems they assist? And what implications does such longevity have on, and for, the supervisory needs of systemic psychotherapists at the heart of the work? Given the absence of a rigorous evidence base for long term systemic therapy and practice, this book explores how practitioners can hold themselves ethically accountable for what they do and think.
Written by some of the leading names in systemic thinking, this book provides an important new resource for both students and experienced professionals in family therapy seeking to enhance their practice and research.
Reviews
“Although the iThrive model (Wolpert et al., 2015) has redressed the balance somewhat by suggesting a service framework for UK Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services that include very short, brief, medium and long-term therapeutic interventions, there has been a startling lack of focus in the therapeutic literature on long-term work, in recent years. … This is an enjoyable, highly relevant and timely addition to the literature, and addresses an important and much neglected aspect of systemic practice and consultation.” (Percy Aggett, Journal of Family Therapy, August 16, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jim Sheehan is Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at the VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a social worker, family therapist, trainer, consultant and systemic supervisor. His previous publications include Supervision of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (2017) co-edited with Arlene Vetere, andFamily Conflict After Separation and Divorce (2018) published by Palgrave.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Long Term Systemic Therapy
Book Subtitle: Individuals, Couples and Families
Editors: Arlene Vetere, Jim Sheehan
Series Title: Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44511-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44510-2Published: 02 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44511-9Published: 01 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-9127
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9135
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 209
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Psychoanalysis