101 More Interventions in Family Therapy

Contents About the Editors * Contributors * Preface * Don't Just Do Something, Stand There * Mirroring Movement for Increasing Family Cooperation * Seeing the Obvious: Data Collection in Therapy * Of Clocks and Rubber Bands: On the Use of Props in Family Therapy * Know the Enemy's Strategies and You Will Know Your Own Power * The Race Is On! A Group Contingency Program to Reduce Sibling Aggression (Kristin E. Robinson) * Attitude as Intervention * Sculpting Stepfamily Structure * Taped Supervision as a Reflecting Team * Becoming the "Alien" Other * Playing Baby * Competing Voices: A Narrative Intervention * Start with Meditation * Emotional Restructuring: Re-Romancing the Marital Relationship * It's Bigger Than Both of Us * Joining with Jenga: An Intervention for Building Trust with Stepfamilies * Crisis Intervention with Families: A One-Down Position * Columbo Therapy As a One-Down Positioning with Families * Seeing Change When Clients Don't * Making the Genogram Solution Based * From Alienation to Collaboration: Three Techniques for Building Alliances with Adolescents in Family Therapy * What I Needed versus What I Got: Giving Clients Permission to Grieve * Starting with the Familiar: Working with "Difficult" Clients * A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Use of Family Photographs to Promote Parental Nurturance in Family Therapy with Adolescents * A Fairy-Tale Ending* The Wall of Defenses * Single Women and the Grief Circle * Slaying the Wild Things * The Nightmare Question: Problem Talk in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Alcoholics and Their Families * I Rewrite with a Little Help from My Friends * Time and Couples, Part I: The Decompression Chamber * Time and Couples, Part II: The Sixty-Second Pleasure Point * Debunking Addictive Religious Belief Systems in Marital Therapy * Ceremony to Memorialize Old Hurts * Strategic Journaling * A Solution-Focused Guessing Game for Children * The Problem Box Ritual: Helping Families Prepare for Remarriage * Using Batacca Sticks in Couple Therapy * Necessity's Way * Couples Group Psychotherapy with HIV-infected Gay Men * The Grid * Revisiting the Subject of Emotional Highs and Lows: Two Interventions * Changing Hats During Therapeutic Impasses * Reciprocal Double Binds, Amplification of Constructions of Reality, and Change in a Training Context * The Play Is the Thing: Using Self-Constructed Board Games in Family Therapy * Therapists Must Be EXPLISSIT * The Relapse Is Your Friend * Sculptural Metaphors to Create Discontinuity and Novelty in Family Therapy * A Therapeutic Remarriage Ritual * The Complaint Technique * "Time Out"--Calming the Chaos * An Empirically Driven Marital Therapy Intervention * Symbols in Relationships (Don G. Brown) * Use of Structural Family Therapy to Facilitate Adjustment Among Adolescent Leukemia Patients * "We versus It" (Jan Osborn) * "The Many Colors of Divorce" * On a Scale From One to Ten ... * Genograms in a Multicultural Perspective * Using Art to Aid the Process of Externalization * The "What Are You Prepared to Do?" Question (David Pearson) * Race in Family Therapy: Unnoticeable or Relevant? * The Extramarital Affair: Honesty and Deconstructive Questioning * Three Excellent Agreements: Wynona and the Eighteen-Wheeler * Functions of Behavior in the Adolescent Family * Together and Apart: Daily Rituals in Divorced and Remarried Families * Trance and Transformation: Intervention with Verbally Combative Couples * Many Smalls Steps Instead of One Intervention * Metacommunication and Role Reversal as an Intervention * Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones: The Verbally Abusive Child * Binuclear Family Therapy: Conflict Reduction Through Agreeing to Disagree *