101 More Interventions in Family Therapy

Thorana S Nelson, Terry S Trepper

Contents About the Editors Contributors Preface Don't Just Do Something, Stand There Mirroring Movement for Increasing Family Cooperation Seeing the Obvious: Data Collection in Therapy Of Clocks and Rubber Bands: On the Use of Props in Family Therapy Know the Enemy's Strategies and You Will Know Your Own Power The Race Is On! A Group Contingency Program to Reduce Sibling Aggression (Kristin E. Robinson) Attitude as Intervention Sculpting Stepfamily Structure Taped Supervision as a Reflecting Team Becoming the Alien Other Playing Baby Competing Voices: A Narrative Intervention Start with Meditation Emotional Restructuring: Re-Romancing the Marital Relationship It's Bigger Than Both of Us Joining with Jenga: An Intervention for Building Trust with Stepfamilies Crisis Intervention with Families: A One-Down Position Columbo Therapy As a One-Down Positioning with Families Seeing Change When Clients Don't Making the Genogram Solution Based From Alienation to Collaboration: Three Techniques for Building Alliances with Adolescents in Family Therapy What I Needed versus What I Got: Giving Clients Permission to Grieve Starting with the Familiar: Working with Difficult Clients A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Use of Family Photographs to Promote Parental Nurturance in Family Therapy with Adolescents A Fairy-Tale Ending The Wall of Defenses Single Women and the Grief Circle Slaying the Wild Things The Nightmare Question: Problem Talk in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Alcoholics and Their Families I Rewrite with a Little Help from My Friends Time and Couples, Part I: The Decompression Chamber Time and Couples, Part II: The Sixty-Second Pleasure Point Debunking Addictive Religious Belief Systems in Marital Therapy Ceremony to Memorialize Old Hurts Strategic Journaling A Solution-Focused Guessing Game for Children The Problem Box Ritual: Helping Families Prepare for Remarriage Using Batacca Sticks in Couple Therapy Necessity's Way Couples Group Psychotherapy with HIV-infected Gay Men The Grid Revisiting the Subject of Emotional Highs and Lows: Two Interventions Changing Hats During Therapeutic Impasses Reciprocal Double Binds, Amplification of Constructions of Reality, and Change in a Training Context The Play Is the Thing: Using Self-Constructed Board Games in Family Therapy Therapists Must Be EXPLISSIT The Relapse Is Your Friend Sculptural Metaphors to Create Discontinuity and Novelty in Family Therapy A Therapeutic Remarriage Ritual The Complaint Technique Time Out--Calming the Chaos An Empirically Driven Marital Therapy Intervention Symbols in Relationships (Don G. Brown) Use of Structural Family Therapy to Facilitate Adjustment Among Adolescent Leukemia Patients We versus It (Jan Osborn) The Many Colors of Divorce On a Scale From One to Ten . . . Genograms in a Multicultural Perspective Using Art to Aid the Process of Externalization The What Are You Prepared to Do? Question (David Pearson) Race in Family Therapy: Unnoticeable or Relevant? The Extramarital Affair: Honesty and Deconstructive Questioning Three Excellent Agreements: Wynona and the Eighteen-Wheeler Functions of Behavior in the Adolescent Family Together and Apart: Daily Rituals in Divorced and Remarried Families Trance and Transformation: Intervention with Verbally Combative Couples Many Smalls Steps Instead of One Intervention Metacommunication and Role Reversal as an Intervention Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones: The Verbally Abusive Child Binuclear Family Therapy: Conflict Reduction Through Agreeing to Disagree