Overview

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 more than 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, and 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. This text is essential reading for mental health and human service practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, as well as graduate-level trainees in all mental health disciplines.

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“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, Professor (Emeritus), Clinical Child and 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

“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.

Author Information

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. Antonello D’Elia, MD, is a psychiatrist, trainer, and supervisor of the Family Therapy Academy, Italy, and Deputy Editor of Italian journal Terapia Familiare. He is also President of Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica. Peter Fraenkel, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York and a former faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

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