Therapy with Treatment Resistant Families

Here is a book advocating specific methods for dealing therapeutically with high-risk clients - those that are crisis prone and treatment resistant. With the help of this volume, family therapists and counsellors can learn to identify high-risk families at the first interview and target them for brief therapy, breaking the cycle of crises and subsequent treatment non-compliance. This ground-breaking therapy method for dealing with high-risk families is illustrated with extensive clinical histories, demonstration cases, and therapy transcripts. This guidebook details methods for preventing high-risk families from consuming a tremendous amount of mental health resources while sabotaging the best intentions of their service providers. "Therapy With Treatment Resistant Families" provides a wealth of applicable information for family therapists and covers important topics such as crisis intervention, crisis prone families, treatment resistant families, brief family therapy, and family therapy with medical patients. In addition to its benefits for family therapists, the cases related to behavioural medicine will be useful for mental health counsellors working with medical patients in a hospital setting. It is also one of the few volumes addressing family therapy, neuropsychological deficits, and cognitive decline.