Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This edition emphasizes contemporary approaches such as narrative and solution-focused therapies, and highlights such issues as poverty, social class, ethnicity, and spirituality. There is more emphasis on clinical practice, with clinical examples added throughout the book. There are new chapters on Integrative Models (Chapter 13) and on Research in Family Therapy (Chapter 15). The new chapter on Integrative Models includes information on working with family violence and conducting community family therapy. For anyone interested in family therapy.
Table of Contents
The context of family therapy. The foundations of family therapy -- The evolution of family therapy -- Early models and basic techniques: group process and communications analysis -- The fundamental concepts of family therapy -- The classic schools of family therapy. Bowen family systems therapy -- Experiential family therapy -- Psychoanalytic family therapy -- Structural family therapy -- Cognitive-behavioral family therapy -- Recent developments in family therapy. Family therapy enters the twenty-first century -- From strategic to solution-focused: the evolution of brief therapy -- Narrative therapy -- Integrative models -- The evaluation of family therapy. Comparative analysis -- Family therapy research: science into practice, practice into science.