Rewriting Family Scripts: Improvisation and Systems Change

by Byng-Hall and John Byng-Hall

Book Overview

Families can develop self-destructive routines so predictable that members seem to be following a script each coming in on cue as the plot unfolds. Such scripts can be altered, however, when therapists help clients learn to improvise new patterns of relating. This book presents an innovative approach to doing just that--incorporating into therapy elements of script theory and recent findings in attachment research, including those related to narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572300663
• ISBN13: 9781572300668
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"