Critical Topics in Family Therapy

1. Front Matter

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2. Critical Topics in Family Therapy: AFTA Monograph Series Highlights

   • Thorana Nelson, Hinda Winawer

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3. Part I Touched by War Zones, Near and Far: Oscillations of Despair and Hope, 2005—Jodie Kliman, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Families in the War Zone: Narratives of “Me” and the “Other” in the Course of Therapy

      • Yael Geron, Ruth Malkinson, Michal Shamai

      Pages 7-19

   3. Reflections on Growing Up in a War Zone: Understanding War and Building Peace

      • Sanja Rolovic, Roxana Llerena-Quinn

      Pages 21-32

4. Part II Lessons Learned in Community Practice, 2005—Ramón Rojano, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Fresh Start for Families: A Collaboratively-built Community-based Program for Families that are Homeless

      • Peter Fraenkel

      Pages 35-43

   3. Systemic Community Psychiatry

      • Marcelo Pakman

      Pages 45-47

   4. Constructing Empowerment and Resilience Contexts: Systemic Interventions in Communities

      • Rosa Maria Stefanini de Macedo

      Pages 49-54

   5. Challenges and Changes to Family Therapy Practice in South Africa

      • Madhubala Ishver Kasiram, Emmerentie Oliphant

      Pages 55-63

   6. Nuestra Casa [Our Home]: From the Family to the Community

      • Beatriz Molina†, Ćielo de Cure, Carmen Maria de Salazar, Katia de Rosales, Silvia de Navarro, Maria Teresa de Sabbagh et al.

      Pages 65-68

5. Part III Systemic Responses to Disaster: Stories of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 2007—John Sargent, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Helping Children Heal After the Hurricanes: An Innovative Training Approach

      • Katherine T. Volk, Kristina Konnath, Ellen L. Bassuk

      Pages 71-79

6. Part IV Neuroscience and Family Therapy: Integrations and Applications, 2008—Martha Edwards, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. “News from Neuroscience”: Applications to Couple Therapy

      • Mona DeKoven Fishbane

      Pages 83-92

   3. Neurobiology and Addiction: Assisting the Family and Support System to Get Resistant Loved Ones into Treatment

      • Judith Landau, James Garrett

      Pages 93-102

7. Part V Expanding Our social Justice Practices: Advances in Theory and Training, 2010—Jane Ariel, Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe, and Sarah Stearns, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Doing Family: Decentering Heteronormativity in “Marriage” and “Family” Therapy

      • Jacqueline Hudak, Shawn V. Giammattei

      Pages 105-115

8. Part VI At the Edge: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Couples and Families, 2011—Arlene Lev and Jean Malpas, Guest Editor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Families in Transition: Supporting Families of Transgender Youth

      • Melissa MacNish, Marissa Gold-Peifer

      Pages 119-129

This Brief from the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) is a collection of chapters from the AFTA Monograph Series. The chapters specifically address responses to a wide range of contextual phenomena from a relational family therapy perspective. Chapters are grounded in family systems concepts and informed by postmodern perspectives including social justice. The collection provides cutting edge thinking and practices for a variety of experiences that strongly impact individuals and families. Authors address the treatment of couples and families oppressed by socio-contextual phenomena such as war and poverty, and of those marginalized by the insidious impact of dominant discourse on relationships and on the therapeutic context, for example, sexual/gender identity and sexual practices. Established practitioners and scholars with particular expertise in the areas addressed bring exceptional transparency and knowledge to the descriptions of their work. Researchers, clinicians, educators, and students of family and couples therapy will find this volume very useful.

• Families Experiencing Social Injustice
• Family Therapy with Trauma Victims
• Neuroscience and Family Therapy
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Systemic Family Therapy
• Working with Families after Trauma

• Santa Fe, USA

  Thorana Nelson

• Princeton, USA

  Hinda Winawer

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