Bøger af Rudi Dallos

En omfattende og opdateret introduktion til teori og praksis i familieterapi og systemisk familiearbejde. Bogen giver et overblik over den centrale begrebsramme - illustreret med casemateriale. Kapitlerne rummer såvel en historisk gennemgang af de systemiske ideers udvikling som en grundig beskrivelse af de væsentligste begreber.Udviklingen beskrives i tre hovedfaser. Først en nøje gennemgang af den tidlige ideudvikling baseret hovedsageligt på systemteori. Derefter udviklingen henimod konstruktivistiske arbejdsmåder og endelig en beskrivelse af aktuel praksis inspireret af socialkonstruktionismen og dermed relaterede narrative terapiformer.Der indgår således kapitler om emotioner og tilknytning i familier samt et overskueligt kapitel om forskningsmetoder. Desuden suppleres hvert kapitel med specifikke litteraturhenvisninger og øvelser. Til sidst i bogen er der emneorienterede litteraturoversigter, ordlister og vejledende "undersøgelsesformater".Oversat fra engelsk af Mikal Arboe efter "An Introduction to Family Therapy".

Explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice. This book shows how to use these ideas through the integrated approach of 'attachment narrative therapy'. It is suitable for a range of mental health professionals, including, family therapists, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists, and clinical psychologists.

This book focuses on the issues facing practising clinicians wishing to engage in research. It outlines approaches involving both clients and other professionals in the research and argues for approaches that combine an exploration of the experience as well as the effectiveness of therapies.

This invaluable contribution to working with families, whether as a family therapist, clinician or parent, offers insight into how problems for families and children arise and what can help. Don't Blame the Parents explores the ubiquitous issue of blame and responsibility in families, especially of parents feeling blamed for causing or exacerbating problems. The book examines problems that we all encounter in family relationships, whether with children's behaviour, marital anxiety, or not feeling like we are the effective parent that we intend to be. Blame can restrict our ability as therapists, clinicians and family members to explore family dynamics and responsibility for emerging problems in a constructive and progressive way. It can prevent exploration of family dynamics and of finding workable options for long-term positive change and better understanding the role of the family unit.The book draws on attachment and systemic perspectives on family therapy to support the view that parents generally intend to repeat or correct positive childhood experiences, while exploring why these intentions may become derailed. Seminal and contemporary research as well as clinical cases feature, all with an eye to fostering positive and responsible families."Rudi Dallos offers us a thoughtful and helpful deconstruction of the crucial ethical and therapeutic differences between blame and responsibility in family life. Drawing on his integration of trauma theory and attachment theory with systemic theory and practice, he explores the vexed questions of causality, context and intergenerational influences in the understanding and alleviation of distress in close relationships."Arlene Vetere, Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway

A critical reflection on the ideas that have shaped systemic and family therapy over the last years.

This book sets out a framework for practice that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals. This is not offered as a prescriptive model but as an aid and guide to practice that draws aspects of narrative and attachment therapy into systemic work.