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Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity |
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Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity is unique in the family therapy world today in that it is particularly appropriate for students and practitioners who favor a humanistic, experiential approach to working with families but lack the guidance to put this kind of approach into practice. The book guides the student or the individual therapy practitioner to make the paradigm shift to working with a systemic model by explaining this shift in a clear and specific way that can easily be understood.
Furthermore, it predicts some of the sticking points that might occur in family therapy if the practitioner had not been forewarned. By translating the therapist responses that could take many years to acquire into concrete interventions that are easy to learn, the book serves to take the elusive magical quality out of this seemingly intuitive approach to family therapy and turn it into a method that is quite tangible and user-friendly. Both conceptually grounded and practically focused, Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity bridges theoretical orientations and is an immediately useful guide for both novice and experienced family therapists alike.
This book also describes how to do family therapy when the family members are not all available for treatment. Psychodramatic Family Therapy is an approach that Judye has developed over the last 25 years while teaching Family Dynamics and Therapy to students in the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS. Through verbatim accounts of how to put this method into effect in a classroom setting, educators of family therapy will be exposed to an innovative model which is inspiring and engaging for students as they learn this deep and complex material.
Judye Hess, Ph.D, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1975. She has been on the Core Faculty in the Integral Counseling Psychology program the CIIS in San Francisco, since 1984 where she teaches Family Dynamics and Therapy, and Group Dynamics. She has also taught Marriage and Couple Counseling for many years. Judye has taught these classes at many San Francisco Bay Area schools, such as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Saybrook Institute, University of California at Hayward, John F. Kennedy University, Rosebridge Institute, and currently teaches at Holy Names University.
Dr. Hess has a private practice in Berkeley, California, where she specializes in seeing couples and families. Judye has been active in the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society and the American Group Psychotherapy Association for the last 30 years, and has led numerous groups and workshops for other group therapists on "Interpersonal Gestalt" and Group Process IN THE NOW. She has presented workshops on Psychodramatic Family Therapy at the American Association for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.
Ross Cohen, M.A., received his masters in Counseling Psychology from CIIS in 2004. He is the co-author, with Judye Hess, of Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving From Chaos to Clarity. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a private practice in Portland, Oregon. |
