Attachment : Focused Family Therapy

I have been training in the orientation of AEDP by Dr. Fosha, which focuses on individual work. I have disliked virtually every family therapy school I've come across. It's either about having the perfect behavioral intervention or confronting familial roles. This book was a eureka moment for me, after several years of AEDP, EFT, IFS work, yielding great changes with individual clients, but feeling completely incompetent during any family sessions, I now realize that I can work with a family with the same interventions that I use for individual work.The cons are that if you have read significant amounts of the literature on intersubjectivity, attachment theory, affective neuroscience, trauma theory and the like, the theory all ends up sounding the same. As if you can just juxtapose random statements from the above sciences and throw them together randomly. This improved greatly throughout the book.The other thing I would've liked to see, was more compare and contrast to other family therapies and some discussion about how this work in particular changes the family system.

Increasingly, there is a trend away from individual approaches to child therapy to focus more on the family. This is especially true in the treatment of children with disrupted attachment patterns, as is common with foster and adopted kids, for example. Drawing upon theory, clinical experience, and case examples, Hughes emphasizes that intervention with families should be playful, curious, and empathic. Hughes also emphasizes the importance of the therapist 'resonating' with what is happening in the treatment.Many of the concepts and approaches discussed in this book are familiar to those of us who work with foster and adopted children and their families. If you are new to these concepts, this book will broaden your understanding, but it requires a shift in mindset and approach from that of typical child psychology.

I attended a training by Dan Hughes years ago and was very inspired and impressed. This book gives the therapist the real 'flavor' of Hughes' work with attachment disordered children and their families. Humor, empathy, and "finding the words" for the child are used in a way that keeps the focus on the child-mother connection. Many others talk about keeping the focus on that connection...Hughes shows you how to do it. Highly recommended!

I've read a few of this author's published works. It has some value to the practitioner in the field, but, if you've read one you've read them all. A bit like the diet or self-help gurus who keep releasing re-hashes of their first successful publication.

Get it, you will like it, you will use it, you will use it again! Daniel Hughes is GOD of attachment!

Book was a bit old but good price and worth it. Good therapy addition and very useful.

Everything just a great as I expected. Thanks.

An engaging and easy read, Hughes years of experience clearly resound in his theoretical concepts and practical examples. Though the title suggests otherwise, there are many concepts that can easily be applied to daily clinical practice and not reserved for family therapy. His chapters on PACE and "shame and guilt" were the highlight of the book for me.

Detailed, descriptive and easy to read. A really helpful resource to inspire work with families and structure your approach.

excellent

Needed for work

Great condition, no problem with it!