Main description:

Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) provides a comprehensive and unifying framework for individual, couple, and family therapy. The book guides practitioners to use concepts and strategies from specific models of therapy--behavioral, analytic, emotion focused, and so on--with a set of practical and flexible guidelines for what to do with whom, and when to do it. The book also offers a treasure trove of case examples that illustrate how therapists can use IST to treat a wide variety of challenging problems.

Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1. How We Think and How We Work: Integrative Systemic Therapy in Action
Chapter 2. The Foundation of Integrative Systemic Therapy: Fundamental Assumptions About People and Therapy
Chapter 3. The Essence of Integrative Systemic Therapy: Beginning Therapy
Chapter 4. A Blueprint for Therapy: Testing and Revising Hypotheses
Chapter 5. The Hypothesizing Metaframeworks
Chapter 6. What to Do, When, and Why: Planning and the Planning Metaframeworks
Chapter 7. Conversing
Chapter 8. Feedback
Chapter 9. The Integrative Systemic Therapy Approach to Working With Families
Chapter 10. The Integrative Systemic Therapy Approach to Working With Couples
Chapter 11. The Integrative Systemic Therapy Approach to Working With Individuals
Chapter 12. Lifelong Learning in Integrative Systemic Therapy: Beginning, Practicing, Supervising, and Continuing to Grow
Appendix
References
Index
About the Authors