Research Catalog

Title

Narrative solutions in brief therapy / Joseph B. Eron and Thomas W. Lund.

Author

Eron, Joseph B.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Lund, Thomas W.

Description

xii, 288 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume presents a unique and powerful approach developed by Joseph B. Eron and Thomas W. Lund that combines the best elements of the strategic and narrative traditions in family therapy. The brief therapy detailed in these pages is one with depth and purpose, designed to take advantage of the broad spectrum of life experience in building solutions. A hands-on guide, the book explains in close detail how problems develop from the mishandling of ordinary life events, and how to map problem cycles, reframe problems with respect, and find simple and elegant solutions. Beyond this, Eron and Lund describe how people in distress lose track of who they are and wish to be, and how alternative constructions of their problems, embedded in conversation, are linked to solutions.

Series Statement

Guilford family therapy series

Uniform Title

Guilford family therapy series.

Subject

• Professional-Family Relations
• Parent-Child Relations
• Family Therapy
• Psychotherapy, Brief > methods
• Family Therapy > methods
• Family psychotherapy
• Brief psychotherapy
• Strategic therapy
• Psychotherapist and patient
• Psychotherapy, Brief

Genre/Form

Case Reports

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-277) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The 1970s and 1980s: An Emphasis on Action -- 2. From MRI to CFI: Linking Meaning and Action -- 3. The 1990s: An Emphasis on Meaning -- 4. Toward a Theory of Problem Construction -- 5. The Strategy of Conversation, Part I: Approaching the Therapeutic Conversation -- 6. The Strategy of Conversation, Part II: Steps to Assessment -- 7. The Strategy of Conversation, Part III: Steps to Narrative Solutions -- 8. Retelling Children's Stories, Part I -- 9. Retelling Children's Stories, Part II -- 10. Listening to the Voices of Adolescents -- 11. Leaving Parents, Finding Partners: Narrative Solutions with Young Adults -- 12. The Power of Untold Stories: The Case of Sammy's Secret -- 13. As Time Goes By: Conversations with Adults in Distress -- 14. When Things Get Complicated, Part I: A Collaborative Solution -- 15. When Things Get Complicated, Part II: Mandated Therapeutic Conversations -- 16. Back to the Future.

ISBN

1572301260

LCCN

^^^96002355^

OCLC

34410504

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library