The First Three Chapters Of This Family Therapy Work Introduce The Notions of social construction assumptions and social scripting theory. Subsequent chapters then apply the theory of "scripting" habitual ways of dealing with life's situations to

Social construction theory and therapy assumptions; the script as life-form - parasites of meaning; backwards scripts; I demand a rewrite - when your child doesn't fit your script; scripts, scripts and more scripts - a multiscript approach to adolescents; exploring shadow scripts in couple therapy; the chemically dependent "child" script - will Peter Pan ever grow up?; pre-scripts and post-scripts - families, life scripts and AIDS; unscrupulous scripts - family violence; I thought it was our turn - therapeutic considerations in mid-life families; the final script - a developmental crisis, death.