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Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse Eliana Gil

Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse By Eliana Gil

Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse by Eliana Gil

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Presents a family systems approach to curing abusive families by a prominent author in the field of treating child abuse. It includes a focused step-by-step programme for assessment, treatment and reunification, with numerous case histories and dramatic examples throughout.

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Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse by Eliana Gil

A direct, informed approach involving all family members

An invaluable guide for enhancing your skills when working withfamilies in which child abuse has occurred. Systemic Treatment ofFamilies Who Abuse addresses both the symptoms and precipitatingissues of child abuse and neglect, and also

* offers new ideas for effective treatment
* identifies the conditions that are often present when child abuseoccurs
* outlines the protective factors that can counteract a person'stAndency toward child abuse

The author discusses how the treatment of child abuse differs fromgeneric treatment, and stresses the necessity for systemicinterventions for everyone: abusers, abused, and nonabused familymembers.

Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse Reviews

Replete with case examples, Eliana Gil's straightforward, nononsense guide to treating some of society's most dangerous familyinteractions is a valuable resource to all clinicians who work withchild abuse.'' --Marcia Sheinberg, director of training, AckermanInstitute for Family Therapy, and director, Ackerman IncestProject

This book is well-written and well-illustrated with clinical casematerial. --Benjamin E. Saunders, Ph.D., National Crime VictimsResearch and Treatment Center, Medical University of SouthCarolina

With its clear, practical style, this is an unusually useful bookfor clinicians at any level of skill, the next best thing to anexperienced supervisor or colleague. Gil does an extraordinary jobof integrating theory, research, and case examples in an area ofclinical practice that can easily be intimidating. The book'sparticular strength lies in its skillful blAnd of narative andclinical dialogue, in which the therapist's voice is consistentlyempathetic, firm, and focused, both inspiring readers to take asimilar approach and at the same time teaching them how. --AdeliaMoore, Ph.D., Connecticut Children's Medical Center School,Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

About Eliana Gil

ELIANA GIL is director of the Center for Advanced Clinical Development in Springfield, Virginia. A marriage, family, and child counselor, and play therapy supervisor, she is on the board of directors of both the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse. She is the author of numerous books including Play in Family Therapy (1994), Sexualized Children: Assessment and Treatment of Sexualized Children and Children Who Molest (1993), and The Healing Power of Play: Therapy with Abused Children (1991).

Table of Contents

1. What Makes Child Abuse Treatment Unique.

2. Assessment.

3. Principles of Treatment.

4. Beginning Treatment.

5. Assessing Family Readiness for Reunification(with MonicaRoizner-Hayes).

6. Treatment Failures.

Appendix: Checklist for Reunification of Incestuous Families.

Additional information

CIN0787901539G
9780787901530
0787901539
Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse by Eliana Gil
Eliana Gil
Used - Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
19951019
264
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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