Out of Control

Family Therapy and Domestic Disorder

von Jaber F. Gubrium

268 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Counselling techniques that can help families regain control and causes of families breaking up are among the topics explored in this ethnographic account of therapeutic sessions. Two very different views of what a family is and how it becomes `out of control' emerge, resulting in vastly different therapeutic approaches.Gubrium compares two family counselling facilities - a community outpatient centre and a private family-focused psychiatric hospital - which have radically different concepts of the family. One setting examines a family's system including hidden structures, power relations, language and interaction as clues to the family's dysfunction. The other is concerned with affective relationships and deep emotions, h

• Themen: Medizin Medizinische Spezialgebiete Klinische Psychologie Psychotherapie Paare und Familien
• ISBN: 9780803946323
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.1992
• Größe: 222 x 145 mm
• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc