PeoplemakingAbstract: The fundamentals of family therapy are examined, focusing on the changeable and correctable features of familylife and based on the propositions that human beings are flexible and that adults affect both their own and their children's behavior. A family is a "factory" where people are made. Troubles arise in four areas: self-worth, communication, rules, and the links to society. Regardless of the family structure (natural, single-parent, adoptive parent, foster parent, or institutional), specific domestic problems fall into one of the four trouble areas and can be corrected accordingly. Talking and listening, communication paths, rule origin and flexibility, the extended family, and the family structures of the future are explored. In addressing aspects of family problems, exercises and examples are included to allow families to criticize their own behavior. |
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... situation . And yet I have found very few people who refuse when asked directly and honestly for help . Obviously ... situation holds true for all members of the family . Every wife and mother knows how Alice feels when John is waiting ...
... situation . And yet I have found very few people who refuse when asked directly and honestly for help . Obviously ... situation holds true for all members of the family . Every wife and mother knows how Alice feels when John is waiting ...
Page 178
... situation that has to do with previous possessions , previous friends , previous contacts , which , without anybody meaning it to , impinge on the present marriage . Something has to be done about it . We can't fall off the face of the ...
... situation that has to do with previous possessions , previous friends , previous contacts , which , without anybody meaning it to , impinge on the present marriage . Something has to be done about it . We can't fall off the face of the ...
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... situations . What is im- portant is to choose the method that best fits the particular situation , which in turn requires flexibility and freedom . The word to watch out for is always . Too many families always use edict , always vote ...
... situations . What is im- portant is to choose the method that best fits the particular situation , which in turn requires flexibility and freedom . The word to watch out for is always . Too many families always use edict , always vote ...
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