Synopses & Reviews
This book is appropriate as a text for postgraduate marriage and family counselor/therapist training, and also as a professional development resource for practicing marriage and family counselors. The first three chapters of this book introduce the notions of social construction assumptions and social scripting theory. The remaining chapters then apply the theory of "scripting" to common clinical family situations seen in therapy, such as death and grief in the family, premarital child-bearing, adolescence, couples therapy, and chemical dependence in the family.
Synopsis
The First Three Chapters Of This Family Therapy Guide 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 tasks or situations to common clinical family situations seen in therapy, such as death and grief in the family, premarital child-bearing, children with disabilities, adolescence, couples therapy, chemical dependence in the family, AIDS in the family and family violence.