Main description:

Shlomo Ariel is an established international figure in the field of family therapy, having trained therapists in Israel, the USA and various European countries.

Contents:

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical and methodological foundations

Chapter 1 The Diamond Model - essentials

Chapter 2 The sublanguages of information processing, cybernetics and semiotics

Chapter 3 The synchronic and diachronic perspectives and the concept of simplicity

Part 2 The internal and external subsystems

Chapter 4 The internal subsystems

Chapter 5 The external subsystems

Part 3 Multi-systemic diagnosis

Chapter 6 Collecting and analyzing diagnostic data

Chapter 7 Organizing the multi-systemic diagnostic data

Part 4 Therapy

Chapter 8 Planning and carrying out the therapy

Chapter 9 The healing power of various therapeutic techniques

Chapter 10 Make-believe play as a therapeutic instrument

Chapter 11 Monitoring the therapeutic process

Epilogue

List of cases, examples and observations

Index