Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults: The Diamond Model is a comprehensive introduction to a model of multi-systemic, integrative, culturally competent, child and family-oriented psychotherapy: The Diamond Model.

This model integrates a great number of concepts, methods and techniques, found in diverse fields such as the various branches of psychology and psychotherapy, cultural anthropology, biology, linguistics and more, into a single linguistically unified theoretical and methodological framework. Through this model, the author presents clinical cases to help explore various internal and external factors that lead individuals and families to seek out therapy. The book also reserves a special place for examining play therapeutic and culturally competent techniques.

With vivid clinical examples throughout, Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families, Children and Adults serves both as a theory-to-practice guide and as a reference book for therapists working with children and families in training and practice.

About the Author

Dr. Shlomo Ariel is a senior clinical psychologist and family therapist, an international trainer of therapists and Director of the Integrative Psychotherapy Center and the Israel Play Therapy Institute in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Reviews

In this fascinating book, Dr. Ariel provides a superb framework for
learning to be an integrative therapist. The book brings an energetic
and unique perspective; giving access to inner workings of language in
therapy, thus providing critical ground for learning from clinical
experience. Dr. Ariel's background in linguistics gives him ease in
dealing with and integrating concepts and findings from various fields.
He creates a language, simultaneously alive and rigorous, for
acknowledging and working creatively with the unending complexity of
human experience.

David Keith, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y.

This outstanding book provides a comprehensive overview of The Diamond Model, developed by the author. It sheds a new light on the ways systemic therapists can proceed through all the stages of therapy, applying an integration of various effective techniques. The author has demonstrated his capacity to clarify his multidimensional and culturally informed Diamond Model in a way that is easy to understand. Recently, Dr. Ariel trained a first generation of family therapists to apply The Diamond Model here in Kosovo. The trainees have found this model very useful as a theory-into-practice guide for working with complex cases.

Mimoza Shahini, Dr. Sci.; Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Mitrovica University; Director, The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic, Prishtina University, Kosovo

Book Information
ISBN 9781138282513
Author Shlomo Ariel
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 390g