Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse

In a direct, informed way Eliana Gil addresses the symptoms and the precipitating issues of child abuse and neglect. She offers new ideas for effective treatment, identifies the conditions that are often present when child abuse occurs, and outlines the protective factors that can counteract an individual′s tAndency toward child abuse. Gil also stresses the necessity for a treatment approach that involves all family members.

Spis treści:
1. What Makes Child Abuse Treatment Unique.
2. Assessment.
3. Principles of Treatment.
4. Beginning Treatment.
5. Assessing Family Readiness for Reunification(with Monica Roizner–Hayes).
6. Treatment Failures.
Appendix: Checklist for Reunification of Incestuous Families.

Nota biograficzna:
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).

Okładka tylna:
In a direct, informed way Eliana Gil addresses the symptoms and the precipitating issues of child abuse and neglect. She offers new ideas for effective treatment, identifies the conditions that are often present when child abuse occurs, and outlines the protective factors that can counteract an individual′s tAndency toward child abuse. Gil also stresses the necessity for a treatment approach that involves all family members.