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COMPR EHENSI VE HA NDBOOKOF

PSYCHOTHER APY

COMPR EHENSI VE HA NDBOOK

OF

PSYCHOTHER APYV O L U M E 3

INTERPERSONAL/HUMANISTIC/EXISTENTIAL

Editor-In-Chief FLORENCE W. KASLOW

Volume Editors ROBERT F. MASSEY andSHARON DAVIS MASSEY

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

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Contributors

Maurizio Andolfi, MD, is director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia dela Famiglia in Rome, Italy,professor of psychology at the University of Rome. He is an approved supervisor in the AmericanAssociation for Marriage and Family Therapy and editor of Terapia Familiare. He researches the lon-gitudinal effects of psychotherapy.

Harry J. Aponte, MSW, is in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was clinical associateprofessor at MCP Hahnemann University, and director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.He was honored with awards from the American Academy of Family Therapy in 1992, the Men-ninger Clinic in 1997, and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy in 2001. Hisinterests involve spirituality in therapy, the person of the therapist, and therapy with low incomeand minority families.

Marilyn Peterson Armour, PhD, is assistant professor of social work at the University of Texas atAustin, Texas.

Dorothy Becvar, PhD, is a family therapist in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri. She is presidentand CEO of the Haelan Center, a not-for-profit holistic healing center. Her interests are focused onmarriage and family therapy.

Insoo Kim Berg, MSSW, is executive director and cofounder of the Brief Therapy Center in Mil-waukee, Wisconsin, along with her husband, Steve de Shazer. She provides consultation, training,and supervision in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Paul E. Bracke, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Oakland and Mountain View,California. He is a senior consultant and group leader for the Meyer Friedman Institute, MountZion Medical Center of the University of California in San Francisco. He has conducted research onthe effectiveness of reducing Type-A behavior in heart-attack victims and the role of families in de-veloping Type-A behavior. He is interested in the future of existential-humanistic psychology.

Helen H. Braun, MIATES, is a founder of the Centro Integral de la Familia in Quito, Ecuador, andan administrator and faculty member in the masters program in family therapy at the UniversidadPolitechnica Salesiana Sede Quito.

Andra L. Brown, MEd, is in the marriage and family doctoral program in the Department ofProfessional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.

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He is an American Psychological Association Minority Fellow and a Minority in Academic Careers Doctoral Fellow. His research interests include church and spirituality influences, resiliency,HIV/AIDS, school systems, and alcohol and substance abuse among adolescents and families.

James F. T. Bugental, PhD, is emeritus professor of the Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Califor-nia, emeritus clinical faculty member at Stanford University Medical School, and distinguished ad-junct professor at the California School of Professional Psychology. He is past president of theAssociation for Humanistic Psychology.

Christine M. Chao, PhD, is in private practice as a psychologist in Denver, Colorado. She was thedirector of the Asian Pacific Center for Human Development in Denver. She received the AsianWomen of Achievement Silk Wings Award. Her chief interests include Asian mental health and theintersection of cross-cultural psychology and Jungian thought.

Linda Combs, MSSA, LCSW, is training director at Family Service Bureau, an affiliate of NewCommunity Corporation, in Newark, New Jersey. She has supervised interns and staff at severalagencies. She is interested in psychodrama and systemic approaches to psychotherapy.

William F. Cornell, MA in phenomenological psychology from Duquesne University, is in privatepractice in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is certified in Radix and neo-Reichian methods and is a su-pervising transactional analyst. He specializes in supervision, the effects of abuse, and psychother-apeutic processes.

Catherine Ducommun-Nagy, MD, is the president of the Institute for Contextual Growth, Inc. andof its subsidiary, Nagy Context, Inc. She is adjunct assistant professor in the Master of Family Ther-apy program at MCP/Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born and trained inSwitzerland, she specializes in contextual therapy and residential treatment programs.

Adriana Balaguer Dunn, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Professional Psychol-ogy and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. She has been teach-ing in the masters, post-masters, and doctoral programs in marriage and family since 1994 andwas the doctoral clinical coordinator. She is a clinical member of the American Association ofMarriage and Family Therapy, an AAMFT approved supervisor, and a member of Division 43(Family Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. She has conducted research onLatino couples.

Mony Elkaim, MD, is director of the Institute for Family and Human Studies in Brussels, Belgium,professor at the Free University of Brussels, and past president of the European Family TherapyAssociation.

Eugene W. Farber, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia. His interestsfocus on HIV/AIDS mental-health intervention and psychological adaptation to adverse life events,including the role of resilience factors and meaning construction in psychological adjustment.

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Anne R. Farrar, MA, is in the counseling psychology doctoral program in the Department of Pro-fessional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. Herresearch interests include child maltreatment, adoption and foster care, and play therapy.

Shibusawa Fazuko, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is assistant professor at the Columbia School of SocialWork, New York. She was a family therapist in private practice in Tokyo, Japan. She is a HartfordGeriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. Her clinical and research interests focus on Asian Americanfamilies, ethnic elders, and HIV risk among older adults.

Nouriman Ghahary, MS, is in the counseling psychology doctoral program in the Department ofProfessional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.Her research and clinical interests include the impact of trauma on individuals and larger commu-nities, politically based trauma, and resilience.

Eliana Gil, PhD, is coordinator of the Abused Childrens Treatment Services in Fairfax, Virginia.She is director of the Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy and an ad-junct faculty member of Virginia Tech Universitys Family Services. She specializes in workingwith abused and traumatized children and their families.

Ingeborg E. Haug, DMin, is associate professor of Marriage and Family Therapy Education andProgram Chair at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published on ethics andspirituality.

Pilar Hernndez, PhD, is assistant professor in the marriage and family programs in the Depart-ment of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NewJersey. She specializes in the use of narrative approaches to trauma and resilience, especially re-garding persons subjected to political oppression, and she focuses on f