Out of control family therapy and domestic disorder

Counselling techniques that can help families regain control and causes of families breaking up are among the topics explored in this ethnographic account of therapeutic sessions. Two very different views of what a family is and how it becomes `out of control' emerge, resulting in vastly differ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gubrium, Jaber F. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications c1992.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Sage library of social research ; v. 189.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798337006719
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Themes and Settings; Chapter 1 - The Troubled Home; The Problem and the Themes; The Constructed Home in Sociological Perspective; Knowing the Home; Organizational Embeddedness; Producing the Troubled Home; Chapter 2 - The Settings; The Facilities; Staff; Treatment Programs; Part II - Westside House; Chapter 3 - Discerning Domestic Authority; The Reality behind the Signs; The Presenting versus the Underlying Problem; The Language of Authority; Signs of Authority; Chapter 4 - Constructing the System; The Language of the System
  • Beholding the SystemMechanics of Construction; Chapter 5 - Restoring Hierarchy; Taking Control; Shaking up the System; Part III - Fairview Hospital; Chapter 6 - Domestic Sentiments and Control; The Organization of Domestic Sentiments; The History of Domestic Sentiments; How Power Spoils; Chapter 7 - The Rationalization of Feelings; Prerationalized Emotionality; The Democracy of Emotion; The Ultimate Depth of Feeling; Naming Feelings; The Good Session; Chapter 8 - Facilitating Expression; Passive and Aggressive Responses; Assertive Communication; Toughlove
  • Part IV - The Social Construction of Domestic OrderChapter 9 - Voice and Method; Rationalization; Therapeutization; From Domestic Privacy to Public Concern; Making Visible the Voicing of Disorder; Chapter 10 - Language and Domestic Reality; Reality Work; Rule Use; Successful Therapy and Reality Construction; A Postmodern Perspective?; Appendix: Doing the Fieldwork; References; Index; About the Author