FAMILY BELIEF SYSTEMS, THERAPY AND by Dallos R

FAMILY BELIEF SYSTEMS, THERAPY AND by Dallos R

Rudi Dallos discusses the understandings, beliefs, explanations and the constructs that people use in order to manage their relationships in families. "Family" here is a shorthand form for a group of people who are intimately involved over an extended period - and includes one-parent families, step-families, couples without children, homosexual relationships and communal structures. Dallos considers how families construct shared systems of beliefs which serve to guide their percieved options. His argument is illustrated by material drawn from both clinical practice and research into families and employs theories originally formulated in terms of individuals - especially personal construct theory. His aim is to explore intimate relationships in families from the standpoint of people inside them, and to link this exploration to the substantial body of literature which examines families from the outside. In short, this book aims to bridge the gap between system theory (as applied to families) and Kelly's personal construct theory and, in so doing, aims to encourage new ways of seeing and doing therapy. It reveals how a family's problems are related to its shared beliefs and how we can use therapy to challenge those beliefs and help with those problems.

Rudi Dallos is a Consultant Clinical psychologist and Programme Director of the D.Clin. Psychology training programme at the University of Plymouth. He also teaches on qualifying systemic family therapy courses, an intermediate family therapy course and conducts a variety of guest lecturing. He offers extensive clinical and research supervision, especially in areas related to this proposed publication.

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ISBN 13	9780335094929
ISBN 10	0335094929
Title	FAMILY BELIEF SYSTEMS, THERAPY AND
Author	Dallos R
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1990-11-16
Number of pages	208
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