Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying -- A Humanistic Perspective

By Daniela Kramer-Moore and Michael Moore

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members. 

• Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
• Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
• Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
• Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Apr 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781119943259