Circumplex Model

Systemic Assessment and Treatment of Families

David Olson, Candyce Smith Russell, Douglas H Sprenkle

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317773627
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This functional new volume introduces professionals to the Circumplex Model of Family Systems--one of the most respected and widely used approaches of its kind in family studies. Internationally known scholar/practitioners in the marriage and family therapy field demonstrate how the model can be used to assess couple and family dynamics and plan treatment interventions. They extend the use of the Circumplex Model for treating problem families using a range of clinical interventions at both the family level and broader social system level--including specific treatment populations--sex offenders, juvenile delinquents, truants, and multi-problem families. Designed as a multidisciplinary resource, this authoritative and accurate volume will assist social workers, psychologists, pastoral counselors, family therapists, and other mental health professionals who work with individuals in a family treatment context.

Index

Abandonment, fear of, 118

Acculturation, of Mexican Americans, 241, 244,246

Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARSMA), 241

Adaptability, 10,12-13, 54. See also Chaotic families; Flexible families; Rigid families; Structured families

of adjudicated youths' families, 252-253, 254,257,258,259

balance in, 20-21,57

child sexual abuse and, 99

clinical interventions, 41-42,62-67

from chaotic to flexible systems, 64-67

from rigid to structured systems, 62-64

cohesion combinations, 119,120-121

components of, 116

curvilinear aspects of, 57,58,77

definition, 12,55

ecosystem context of, 144

of ethnic families, 212-220,226-230

Afro-American, 216,226-227

Anglo-American, 214,215

Asian-American, 229

chaotic families, 217,218,219, 226-227,229

Chinese-American, 214

flexible families, 215-217,218,219, 227

French-American, 213-214

German-American, 213-214,218,219, 220

Irish-American, 216-217,218,219

Italian-American, 213-214,215,218, 219

Japanese-American, 213-214

Jewish-American, 214,215-216,227

Mexican-American, 213,243-244

Polish-American, 214-215

rigid families, 213-214,218,219, 228-230

Scandinavian-American, 214,215

structured families, 214-215,218,219, 228

intervention and, 41-42

levels of, 10,12,55,56

organizational styles of work groups (OSW) and, 271-272,275,276,278, 279,281

in perceptually discrepant families, 182, 183-185

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• EDITORIAL NOTE
• Introduction
• Circumplex Model of Family Systems VIII: Family Assessment and Intervention
• Utility of the Circumplex Model with Severely Dysfunctional Family Systems
• Symptoms as Regulators of Distance and Change
• The Clinical Use of the Circumplex Model in the Assessment and Treatment of Intrafamily Child Sexual Abuse
• Sexually Addicted Families: Clinical Use of the Circumplex Model
• Integrating Milan Therapy and the Circumplex Model: Ecosystemic Consultation with Families and Their Helpers
• Cross-Generational Coalitions, Discrepant Perceptions and Family Functioning
• Ethnic Families in the Circumplex Model: Integrating Nuclear with Extended Family Systems
• Can Therapists Use FACES III with Mexican Americans? A Preliminary Analysis
• The Circumplex Model with Adjudicated Youths' Families
• School-Family Intervention and the Circumplex Model
• Index