Synopses & Reviews
This popular workbook encourages students to explore their own family origins and the roles that family dynamics play in students' attitudes, values, and behavior patterns. Students are encouraged to think about systems theory in general and apply it to their own lives. By working through the book's in-depth interpersonal family life experience exercises, now greatly expanded, readers have a powerful subjective experience that can be used as a vehicle for discovering their own family strengths and interactive patterns as an aid in assessing their own potential as family therapists.
Synopsis
Revised to reflect changes in the sixth edition of the book, the workbook encourages students to explore their own family origins and the roles that family dynamics play in the student's attitudes, values and behavior patterns. The goal is to help students discover how their own family experiences affect their performance as family therapists. Can be bundled with the text, see your Thomson representative for details.
About the Author
Both Irene and Herbert Goldenberg are active and experienced teachers and practitioners of couples and family therapy. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he developed and taught classes in family therapy. Irene is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She served as Associate Chairperson of that department and as Director of Psychological Services for many years, and continues to teach marriage and family therapy courses to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers there. He currently supervises doctoral students and directs the family therapy program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The Goldenbergs have been awarded the 2007 American Family Therapy Academy lifetime achievement award for family therapy. They also hold membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Family Therapy division (43) of the American Psychological Association. Both have been elected fellows in that APA division. The Goldenbergs are co-authors of another book published by Brooks/Cole, COUNSELING TODAY'S FAMILIES, Fourth Edition.Both Irene and Herbert Goldenberg are active and experienced teachers and practitioners of couples and family therapy. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he developed and taught classes in family therapy. Irene is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She served as Associate Chairperson of that department and as Director of Psychological Services for many years, and continues to teach marriage and family therapy courses to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers there. He currently supervises doctoral students and directs the family therapy program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The Goldenbergs have been awarded the 2007 American Family Therapy Academy lifetime achievement award for family therapy. They also hold membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Family Therapy division (43) of the American Psychological Association. Both have been elected fellows in that APA division. The Goldenbergs are co-authors of another book published by Brooks/Cole, COUNSELING TODAY'S FAMILIES, Fourth Edition.