Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; About the Author; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I; Chapter 1 Becoming a Competent Marriage and Family Therapist; Introduction; The Role of Common Factors in Therapy Outcomes; Common factors contributions to successful client outcomes; The Therapeutic Alliance; The probable causes of split alliances; Detecting rifts in the alliance; Learning to detect split alliances; Interventions to repair ruptured alliances; Summary: Establishing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance.
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Empathic listening and respondingPerson of the therapist variables; Dealing with stress as a therapist; Learning to observe your client's clinically relevant behavior; Crisis Management of Suicidal Ideation and Family Violence; Guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention; Suicide risk assessment; Using a semi-structured interview to assess suicide risk; Classifying the risk of suicide; Intervening with clients experiencing suicidal ideation and intention; Guidelines for Family Violence Risk Assessment: Partner-to-partner, Adult-to-Child, and Elder Maltreatment.
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Family violence prevalenceFamily violence definitions; Adult-to-child maltreatment; Partner-to-partner maltreatment; Elder maltreatment; Convergence of family violence domains; Additional factors which set family violence off from other forms of violence; Risk factors for family violence; Risk factors for elder mistreatment; Co-occurrence of risk factors for the three domains of family conflict; Screening and assessing for family violence; Using self-report instruments to assess for the occurrence of family violence; Intervening with clients experiencing family violence; Case Progress Notes.
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Marriage and Family Theories and Evidence-Based Marital and Family TherapyEvidence-based models as an alternative to theory-based models; What evidence-based therapies are available to marriage and family therapists?; Selecting an Evidence-Based Model for Marriage and Family Therapy Interns; Some criteria for selecting an evidence-based therapy model; In summary; PracticingWithin Your Competence; The Remainder of the Book; What Should You Take Away fromChapter 1?; Chapter 2 Basic Therapist Skills; Introduction; The Therapist's Contribution to the Therapy Relationship.
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Structuring case progress notesSession information; Session summary; Observations; Conceptualizations; Interventions; Missing information; Assignments and future plans; What Should You Take Away From Chapter 2?; Chapter 3 The Initial Phone Call and Assessing Clients' Complaints and Goals; Introduction; The Initial Phone Call: A Semi-Structured Interview; Initiating the initial phone contact; Clarifying the clients' problems and goals; Establishing expectations for the assessment session; Setting safety needs; Deciding who should come to the assessment session.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist is a practical ""how to"" guide designed to help trainee therapists successfully bridge the gap between classroom and consulting room. Readers will learn how to apply empirically-based methods to the core tasks of therapy in order to improve competency, establish effective supervision, and deliver successful client outcomes. A practical guide to improving competency across the core tasks of therapy, based on over 40 years of observation and teaching by an internationally acclaimed authorPresents treatment protocols t.