Reunification Family Therapy
Reunification Family Therapy

Author: Jan Faust

Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1616764910

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A unique, evidence-based treatment manual for repairing parent–child relationships Childhood problems are often related to and worsened by the disintegration of the family structure, whether through parental separation and divorce, military service, or incarceration. Reunification therapy is a therapeutic process incorporating different empirically based methods (CBT, humanistic, and systemic) to help repair relationships between parents and children and restore not only physical contact but also meaningful social, emotional, and interpersonal exchanges between parents and children. This unique manual, bringing together the vast experience of the author, outlines the many situations numerous families currently face and why the need for reunification therapy exists. The therapist works firstly with the individual family members and then with all the family in conjoint sessions. The manual expertly guides clinicians through pretreatment decisions and processes to enable them to decide where, when, and in what form reunification therapy is appropriate, taking into account ethical, legal and special family issues. Detailed chapters outline the structure and issues for the individual and conjoint sessions, as well as a step-by-step treatment plan template. Additional tools in the Appendix enable clinicians to monitor and effectuate change

Reunification Family Therapy
Reunification Family Therapy

Author: Jan Faust

Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1613344910

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A unique, evidence-based treatment manual for repairing parent–child relationships Childhood problems are often related to and worsened by the disintegration of the family structure, whether through parental separation and divorce, military service, or incarceration. Reunification therapy is a therapeutic process incorporating different empirically based methods (CBT, humanistic, and systemic) to help repair relationships between parents and children and restore not only physical contact but also meaningful social, emotional, and interpersonal exchanges between parents and children. This unique manual, bringing together the vast experience of the author, outlines the many situations numerous families currently face and why the need for reunification therapy exists. The therapist works firstly with the individual family members and then with all the family in conjoint sessions. The manual expertly guides clinicians through pretreatment decisions and processes to enable them to decide where, when, and in what form reunification therapy is appropriate, taking into account ethical, legal and special family issues. Detailed chapters outline the structure and issues for the individual and conjoint sessions, as well as a step-by-step treatment plan template. Additional tools in the Appendix enable clinicians to monitor and effectuate change

PARENTAL ALIENATION
PARENTAL ALIENATION

Author: Demosthenes Lorandos

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 1053

ISBN-13: 0398087504

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Parental Alienation: The Handbook for Mental Health and Legal Professionals is the essential “how to” manual in this important and ever increasing area of behavioral science and law. Busy mental health professionals need a reference guide to aid them in developing data sources to support their positions in reports and testimony. They also need to know where to go to find the latest material on a topic. Having this material within arm’s reach will avoid lengthy and time-consuming online research. For legal professionals who must ground their arguments in well thought out motions and repeated citations to case precedent, ready access to state or province specific legal citations spanning thirty-five years of parental alienation cases is provided here for the first time in one place. • Over 1000 Bibliographic Entries• 500 Cases Examined• 25 Sample Motions in MS Word Format* *Note: The eBook version contains the additional supplemental materials in PDF format only. It does not contain the MS Word formatted sample motions.

Working with Alienated Children and Families
Working with Alienated Children and Families

Author: Amy J. L. Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0415518032

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This guidebook pulls together for the first time the best thinking in the field today about different approaches for working with these families. It is written by and for mental health professionals who work directly with alienated children, targeted parents, and families affected by parental alienation.

Working With Alienated Children and Families
Working With Alienated Children and Families

Author: Amy J. L. Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1136340041

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This edited volume is written by and for mental health professionals who work directly with alienated children and their parents. The chapters are written by leaders in the field, all of whom know how vexing parental alienation can be for mental health professionals. No matter how the professional intersects with families affected by alienation, be it through individual treatment, reunification therapy, a school setting, or support groups, he or she needs to consider how to make proper assessments, how to guard against bias, and when and how to involve the court system, among other challenges. The cutting edge clinical interventions presented in this book will help professionals answer these questions and help them to help their clients. The authors present a range of clinical options such as parent education, psycho-educational programs for children, and reunification programs for children and parents that make this volume a useful reference and practical guide.

Parental Alienation and Family Reunification
Parental Alienation and Family Reunification

Author: Pearl S. Berman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-02-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1003846572

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This book on parental alienation and family reunification provides family court professionals with critical background in child development, dynamics present in violent families, and how to evaluate the testimony of experts to ensure it values children’s views, best interests of the children, and follows evidence-based practice. As laid out in the Child Welfare Information Gateway report, 2020, Family court judges should make decisions per the best interests of the child standard. High conflict custody cases make this complicated, especially when reunification services are requested. In the middle of contentious proceedings, judges oftentimes receive conflicting information from parents. Judges and family law professionals can be lead astray, relying on unproven constructs and instruments not meeting the criteria of reliability and validity. Mandating victimized children into reunification programs that are neither evidence-based nor trauma informed can cause further harm to the children. This book will be of interest to those working in the family courts, particularly expert witnesses, clinical psychologists, therapists, children’s services workers including social workers, child protection court workers, mental health professionals involved in child custody decisions, and researchers with an interest in parental alienation. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development.

Overcoming Parent-child Contact Problems
Overcoming Parent-child Contact Problems

Author: Abigail Judge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190235209

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Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems describes interventions for families experiencing a high conflict divorce impasse where a child is resisting contact with a parent.

Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind

Author: Amy J. L. Baker

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0393075982

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An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the other parent. This book examines the impact of PAS on adults and offers strategies and hope for dealing with the long-term effects.

Family Reunification
Family Reunification

Author: Amy M. Fernandez

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781267463098

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"Family reunification occurs after children are removed from their homes, often due to neglect or abuse, and are placed in the child welfare system; the children are reunified with their parent(s) when court approved. This paper reviewed the research demonstrating that a significant number of reunifications fail, due in part to a lack of support for these families. The purpose of this project was to design a counseling group to strengthen reunified families. A survey of the literature provided evidence for the effectiveness of Adlerian and narrative therapies, in general, and it suggested the appropriateness of these approaches for these families. Therefore, a 20-session Adlerian, narrative therapy group for multiple families was proposed and described. It aims to offer these families parenting education, social support, encouragement, and a way to re-envision or re-story themselves and their future. The limitations as well as implications of such a group were also considered." -- Abstract, p. 1.