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International Family Systems Therapy: Global Perspectives on the Healing Power of Families

Editor : Maurizio Andolfi, Editor : Peter Fraenkel, Editor : Antonello D'Elia

Table of Contents

Part I - Get Rid of Labels and Pills: Empowering Children as an Invaluable Resource
1. From Child-problems to Family Resources: A Healing Process
Maurizio Andolfi

2. Amplifying Children’s Voices: Empowering Distressed Children as Family Healers
Wai Yung Lee

3. Imagination and Creativity in Family Therapy with Children Labelled with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Michele Zappella

4. Exploring the Psychological Landscape of Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Family Approach
Tiziana Bufacchi

5. The Community Project in the Schools of the Family Institute of Porto Alegre, Brazil: Description and Purpose
José Ovídio Copstein Waldemar, Breno Irigoyen de Freitas, Klaus Iglesias Hensel, & Lisiane Milhoranza Rech

6. “Tell me a Story…mine!”: Children and Parents Talk about Adoption
Alessandra Santona and Laura Gorla

Part II - Adolescents at High Risk: How to Listen to Their Voice
7. The Silent Adolescent in the Family Therapy Session
Peter Rober

8. Confrontative Intervention in Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Noga Nabarro

9. Adolescent Family Therapy: Considerations of Systemic and Developmental Lenses
Christine Senediak and Isabelle Feijo

10. De Corporis Momentum: The Importance of the Body in Family Therapy.
Dominique Bardou

11. Suicide Attempts in Adolescence: The Line Where Life and Death Meet
Maurizio Andolfi

12. Working with High-Risk Adolescents in Combined Group and Family Therapy
José Barrera

13. Gender Variance in Adolescence
Patrizia Petiva, Eva Gerino, & Rossella Siragusa

14. Multigenerational Therapy and Violence Against Children
Alejandro Astorga and Alicia Cruzat

15. Social Withdrawal in Adolescence
Francesca Ferraguzzi

16. Silent Emotions: Embodied Metaphors in Early Onset Eating Disorders in Adolescence and Pre-Adolescence
Camillo Loriedo

17. Therapeutic Work with Families and Adolescents at Risk in a Western Australian Mental Health Service
Giulia Pace

Part III - Family and Social Dimensions of Couple Crises and Divorce
18. Resolving Power Struggles in Last Chance Couple Therapy
Peter Fraenkel

19. Treating Same Sex Couples: Harnessing the Power of Love
Michael LaSala

20. Intergenerational Couple Therapy
Maurizio Andolfi and Anna Mascellani

21. Families Created from the Heart
Natividat Perez and Carmen Catalayud Lliso

22. Impact Techniques in Systemic Therapy
Umberta Telfener

23. Family/Couple Therapy through the Lens of Intimate Partner Violence: No Limits or Know Your Limits?
Elisa Agostinelli and Brian Sullivan

24. Serious Illness and Disability: Helping Couples Meet the Challenges
John S. Rolland

25. Children and Parents in Contemporary Families: From Boundary Ambiguity to the Construction of New Belongings
Salvatore D’Amore

Part IV - Trauma, Loss and Resilience: The Healing Power of the Extended Family and Community
26. Changing the Subject: From System to Culture to the Event
Vincenzo Di Nicola and John Farnsworth

27. Loss and Resilience through Turbulent Times: Meaning Making, Hope, and Transformation
Froma Walsh

28. Resignification: The Gift of Elaboration and Processing a Traumatic Experience
Shulamit Graber

29. Remembering Helps Us Forget
Antonello D’Elia

30. Young Children Remember: The Family as a Resource in the Treatment of Pre-verbal Trauma
Arianne Struik and Raffaella Salvo

Part V - Cultural Diversity, Migration and Social Discrimination
31. Family Transformation and Therapy in Malaysia: A Multicultural Mosaic Shaped by Historical Transformation
Bawany Chinapan and Wai-Eng Ding

32. Migration in Seven Words: An Inspirational Tool for Thinking about Family Therapy
Ivy Daure

33. Cultural Diversity as a Resource in Family Therapy
Lorena Cavalieri

34. Empowering and Supporting Japanese Families: A Gender Perspective
Tazuko Shibusawa, Shinichi Nakamura, Takeyoshi Nozue, Noriko Odagiri, & Mami Onishi

35. The Inventiveness of Loss Narratives of Trauma and Resilience among Palestinian Refugees Forcibly Displaced in Israel
Mustafa Qossoqsi

36. Interethnic Marriages and Family Dynamics in Senegal
Geneviève Platteau and Waly Fatou Diop

37. Introducing Climate Change in Mental Health Practice
Olga Garcia Falceto, Enrique Falceto de Barros, & Luisa Falceto de Barros