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Core Focused Family Therapy: Moving from Chaos to Clarity | 
| Authors: Judye Hess, Ross Cohen
Publisher: Idyll Arbor
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1301566
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 145
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1882883705
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89156
EAN: 9781882883707
ASIN: 1882883705
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Core Focused Family Therapy is divided into three sections. Section I discusses the general principles and values of Core Focused Family Therapy, desirable qualities of a therapist who may choose to practice in this method. Section II provides a detailed description of how to put CFFT into use in a very practical, hands-on way. Section III provides descriptions of two alternative methods of using CFFT when the whole family or parts of the family cannot be present.
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CFFT for professionals and the general public July 20, 2008
Moving from chaos to clarity is what we would all like to accomplish. In the family therapy setting these authors, Judye Hess and Ross Cohen, certainly help one understand how to get there. This informative book is most useful to the professional therapist working with family groups, however, it also contains some excellent information for the person entering into family therapy. The book will let you know what to expect and to some extent may eliminate potential awkward surprises. If someone in your family is hesitant about his or her commitment to enter into family therapy, you may want to share this book with that person. The authors will gently ease the reluctant family member into understanding the process and show them how good healthy interaction can help all the members of the family grow. Sharing emotions in a safe, structured environment can benefit everyone in the group and the authors make the reasons behind this dynamic infinitely digestible. Overall, this is an easy book to read and the lessons learned from it will enhance the therapist's knowledge about treating patients in a group situation and could prove invaluable to those individuals on the path to self discovery.
Excellent manual for a family therapist June 19, 2008
As a therapist, I found this book to be of tremendous import. It is organized clearly and provides a fine methodology for conducting family therapy. Dr. Hess has a keen sense of humanity and homes right in on the essence of good therapeutic inter actions. This would be a very useful manual to have in many clinical settings and universities. Well done.
A Great Book June 12, 2008
This amazing book seems to me to be appropriate for two audiences: those learning about family therapy for the first time, since this book lays out much of what any beginning family therapist needs to know; and those interested in Judye Hess's particular form of family therapy. Regarding the latter, this book seems to me an important contribution to family therapy, describing what I believe is a new approach. Reading this book, I found myself thinking: this is the way that family therapy ought to be done; why has no one ever written such a book before? Or have they done so and I just never heard about it? If I am right that this book is unique - no one has ever written one like it - and, at the same time, seems so right, then perhaps more of a point could be made about this fact. I can't think of any other way to improve it.
The book begins with a grabbing-your-interest-right-away-and-making-you-want-to-read-further point that you don't choose your family and then covers classical family therapy - providing a good introduction to the subject for the beginning student.
Following that is a nuts and bolts description of what to do in family therapy, starting from the first phone call, and including major issues a family therapist deals with. Again, this is useful for family therapists in general.
Then comes Judye's unique approach, an ingenious application of the method she uses in leading gestalt therapy groups. There is first the check in in which each family member gets a chance to say something - a protected moment where the therapist makes sure that this person is not interrupted. Then comes direct interaction where issues between pairs of family members are dealt with. From this may emerged a plan for action, following which there is a check out, where people get a chance to say how they felt about the session. Reading it made me think that I ought to do that with all my individual and couple therapy clients.
All of this is described with right-to-the-point examples and comments on how to handle the problems that arise. The reader feels the glow of knowledge arising from Judye's decades of experience. There is an amazing the amount of information slipped into this little book. In its own understated way, this book is inspirational. Reading it, I felt ready to go out and do what it said.
From another point of view, this book takes what has classically been the crucial issue in family therapy - the family's attributing the problem to one member (the IP) - and has developed a sophisticated way for therapists to deal with this issue. The trick, as the authors point out, is to challenge the family's attributing all their problems to the IP without alienating the family by insisting that the IP is not the problem.
If there was justice in this world, this book would be read in every family therapy class and be part of every family therapist's continuing education requirement.
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