International Family Systems Therapy: Global Perspectives on the Healing Power of Families
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : November 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 448
- Category :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 98296
- ISBN 13 : 9781032882338
- ISBN 10 : 1032882336
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Detailing a wide range of systemic approaches to mental health and relational issues, this essential guide demonstrates the power of family systems therapy as a means of fostering genuine human, relational, and societal transformation.
With contributions from over 50 internationally recognized family therapy scholars and practitioners, this text illustrates how family systems therapy can provide a comprehensive, effective, and more humane approach to the dominant paradigm of mental health treatment. The book offers an integrative approach that blends action-oriented techniques with multigenerational and multicultural insights, and provides an understanding of children and adolescents’ issues, couple crises, losses and life adversities, and shares stories of resilience from families all over the world. Chapters explore how family and couple therapy can be used to address a variety of challenges such as engaging children’s voices in sessions; couples in which a partner suffers from a chronic illness or disability; strengthening family healing and resilience; teens at risk of suicide; the intricacies of power dynamics in couples; infertility; and much more.
Reviews and Endorsements
This book is a global “enactment” of the rebirth of systemic therapy to heal families and communities in the 21st Century–a must read for all interested in true human, relational and societal transformation.
Silvia M. Kaminsky, M.S.Ed, LMFT American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) President (Jan 2023-Dec 2024)
A comprehensive systems framework that inspires both trainees and seasoned practitioners to use creative interventions, nurturing family resilience through various life stages and bridging cultural and national divides.
Joel Elizur, Prof. (Emeritus), Clinical Child & Educational Psychology Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
What a tour de force! Andolfi’s book captures the spirit of his Assisi conference and its Manifesto: Valuing our children, couples, our resiliencies and diversities. It's a must read!
Rob Garfield, M.D, Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
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
About the Editor(s)
Maurizio Andolfi, MD, is an internationally renowned child psychiatrist, Director of the Family Therapy Academy in Rome, Italy, and Editor-in-Chief of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also Director of the Perth Circle for the Advancement of Family Therapy in Western Australia.
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Peter Fraenkel, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York and former faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family.
Antonello D’Elia, MD, is a psychiatrist, trainer and supervisor of Family Therapy Academy, Italy, and Deputy Editor of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also President of Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica.
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