Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy

by Robert Sherman, Norman Fredman

Provides a set of techniques for marriage and family therapy. The authors have selected 59 techniques that have been widely used by clinicians for diagnosis and intervention and have been reported to be useful and effective in the clinical setting. The structured techniques are divided into six major Fantasy and imagery, Sociometrics, Structural moves, Behavioral tasks, Paradox, and Alternative models. Each category is preceded by an informative theoretical introduction reviewing the thinking behind the techniques. Each technique is presented with enough detail that you can use it immediately. Names of techniques "Pretending to have the symptom," "Contaminating the suicidal Fantasy," and "Sculpting."

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Robert Sherman (PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School) previously served as the Richard P. Buck Professor of Christian Theology at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine (which closed in 2013). A leading theologian of the Reformed tradition, he is the author of King, Priest, and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement.