Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults The Diamond Model [Hardcover]

Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults: The Diamond Modelis a comprehensive introduction to a model of multi-systemic, integrative, culturally competent, child and family-oriented psychotherapy: The Diamond Model.

This model integrates a great number of concepts, methods and techniques, found in diverse fields such as the various branches of psychology and psychotherapy, cultural anthropology, biology, linguistics and more, into a single linguistically unified theoretical and methodological framework. Through this model, the author presents clinical cases to help explore various internal and external factors that lead individuals and families to seek out therapy. The book also reserves a special place for examining play therapeutic and culturally competent techniques.

With vivid clinical examples throughout, Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults serves both as a theory-to-practice guide and as a reference book for therapists working with children and families in training and practice.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical and methodological foundations

Chapter 1 The Diamond Model - essentials

Chapter 2 The sublanguages of information processing, cybernetics and semiotics

Chapter 3 The synchronic and diachronic perspectives and the concept of simplicity

Part 2 The internal and external subsystems

Chapter 4 The internal subsystems

Chapter 5 The external subsystems

Part 3 Multi-systemic diagnosis

Chapter 6 Collecting and analyzing diagnostic data

Chapter 7 Organizing the multi-systemic diagnostic data

Part 4 Therapyls‹