Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Towards a Truly Systemic Account of the Present and Future of Manualisation.- Chapter 3. Another Loop of the Spiral: A Re-examination of 18 Manualized Prescriptions from 1978.- Part 1. Issues and Experiences in the Creation of Manuals.- Chapter 4. Four Advances That Can Enhance Treatment Manual Development.- Chapter 5. Six Different Approaches to Manualisation: Research Based Projects of the Leeds Family Therapy & Research Centre.- Chapter 6. Manualizing Human Systems Therapy: Towards a Few Session Therapy.- Chapter 7. Manualizing the Therapeutic Process in Systemic Therapy: From the Construction of the Hypothesis to the Assessment of Change.- Chapter 8. Family Maps and Systemic Setting of Therapeutic Work with Families.- Chapter 9. A Theoretical Model of a Systemic Therapy Clinic.- Chapter 10. Systemic Family Therapy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: Map of Therapeutic Competences.- Part 2. Research Issues in the Use and Evaluation of Manuals.- Chapter 11. An Integrative Approach to Systemic Therapy.- Chapter 12. The Story of the Digital, Analogic, Narrative (DAN) Model: From a Tool to Help Young Families to Raise Children to a General Model for Systemic Therapy.- Chapter 13. The Manualisation of Research at ISCRA Institute.- Chapter 14. The DAN Model in Practice: Transformations and Enhancement of Resiliency in a Nonclinical Parental Couple - A Case Report.- Chapter 15. Taking Care of Adoption (TCA): Development of a Treatment Manual for Adoptive Families.- Chapter 16. Manualized Family Therapy in a Controlled Study on Childhood Depression: Therapist and Supervisor Reflections on the Use of the Manual.- Chapter 17. International Practitioner Contributions to Manualising the SCORE for Improving and Measuring Systemic Therapy.- Chapter 18. Issues in Conducting a Rigorous Research Process for Creating a

Mauro Mariotti, M.D., is a child psychiatrist, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. He is the former Director of the Departments of Child and Maternal Health of Reggio Emilia and Child Psychiatry of Modena. He was a professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is the Director of Institute of Systemic and Relational Psychotherapy (ISCRA) of Modena and Cesena. He founded the international association of systemic mediation. He is the past president of Italians society of research and systemic therapy, founded by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco cecchin. He is the author and editor of 12 books on psychotherapy, child psychology and psychiatry, and family and founder of the Journal Maieutica. He is a board member of the European Family Therapy Association. He was also a member of the Italian Society of Psychology and Relational Psychotherapy (SIPPR) research board for which he served as coordinator and as Secretary for 8 years during the Presidency of Gianfranco Cecchin.Heserved as secretary also for the European Society of Family Mediation and he is active as court expert on children and family matters.

George Saba, Ph.D., is a systemic family therapist and a clinical and counseling psychologist with a broad scope of research, training, and clinical interests in systemic and relational care. He has been a behavioral science faculty member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, since 1983. For the past 30 years, he has served as the Director of Behavioral Sciences and the Associate Program Director at the Family and Community Medicine Residency. His clinical research has involved evaluating a systemic model of therapy for bulimia, substance use, chronic illness, and a relational oriented family medicine. His communication research has explored the physician-patient-family interaction in primary care. His educational research has included evaluating training models for systemic