MyHelpingLab MyHelpingLab is an exciting new interactive and instructive online resource designed to help students in Social Work, Counseling & Psychotherapy, Marriage/ Family Therapy, and Human Services make the transition from their academic coursework to their professional practice. MyHelpingLab is appropriate for use in any course where video ...
For all families considering therapy, this bestselling guide will provide a broad understanding of the family therapy experience. "Brings fresh insights to our understanding of family interactions."-- "Psychology Today" "Brings fresh insight to our understanding of family interactions, the forces that contribute to marital failure, and how family ...
This current, engaging, and practice-oriented text is your complete resource for mastering the many facets of family therapy. In this Seventh Edition of their respected text, Irene and Herbert Goldenberg examine and explain traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy. The authors ...
Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment. It explains how the use of genograms can bring to light a family's history of divorce, suicide, or estrangement, revealing inter-generational patterns that are more ...
Transcripts of six group sessions illuminate the tactics of therapists, methods of mapping and restructuring human relationships, and the nature of family problems.
This widely used clinical reference has now been fully revised and expanded, providing the latest knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to ...
This text is a comprehensive survey of the field of marriage and family therapy, with emphasis on a systemic theoretical perspective. The systemic-cybernetic framework in Family Therapy provides a framework for understanding people and families in context. The text--divided into three sections including The Systemic Framework, The Practice of ...
Long known as the world's leading medical hypnotist, Milton H. Erikson developed a strategic approach - for individuals, couples and families - that uses hypnotic-therapy skills in observing and motivating people. His ideas and procedures have been widely used to sharpen the techniques of therapists of many different schools. Jay Haley provides a ...
This is the eagerly-awaited new edition of The Changing Family Life Cycle. Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick are two of the best-known family therapists in the U.S. The authors have been particularly known for the introduction of feminist theory to family therapy. The new title, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, represents some of the sweeping ...
This second edition of The Essentials of Family Therapy examines the rich history, classic schools, and latest developments of family therapy while emphasizing clinical practice. Similar to another classic work from the same authors, titled Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, Sixth Edition this volume contains up-to-date descriptions of the ...
"Comprehensively presents Bowen's principles for assessing families, enabling the family therapist to organize clinical data and make therapy decisions".--James L. Framo, Ph.D.
A classic that teaches you how to think in a contextually sensitive, directive, and goal-focused way. A highly readable and practical volume that focuses on solving problems within the context of the entire social unit--the family, the school, the community.
This title provides a balanced presentation of the major theoretical underpinnings and clinical practices in the field of family therapy. By presenting an overview of traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy, it provides contemporary practice-oriented content laying the ...
When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959, at Menninger
An introduction to the Bowen Family Systems Theory and its applications both to church life and to the role of leadership in creating a healthier church, this book explains the complexities of congregational emotional life in understandable language.
Third edition of this classic on family therapy. The introduction calls it "a conceptual frame around which to organize your data and your impressions . . . a suggested path."
For courses in Marriage and Family Counseling, Marital Therapy, and Family Therapy. The most thorough and well-written text in the field, Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, now in its fourth edition, is a comprehensive and developmental textbook that covers all aspects of working with families. The author begins by helping students ...
Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research!Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text, Second Edition, presents twenty-two basic psychological concepts that therapists may use to understand clients and provide successful services to them. Each chapter focuses on a single concept ...
Family Ties That Bind examines family relationships and considers how birth order, our parents'' relationship, and the rules we were brought up with can affect our self-esteem and relationships with spouses, children and other family members.'
Families that return for treatment time and again often have problems that seem unrelated - such as compulsive, addictive or abusive behaviours - but they are linked by an underlying process of shame. Comparing the shame-bound family system with the respectful family system, Fossum and Mason outline the assumptions underlying their approach to ...
This text provides down-to-earth, practical information about how to carry out the important procedures in marriage and family therapy. It serves as a student's or clinician's "handbook," with explanations of how to handle the full range of situations encountered in everyday family practice. The authors have collected the procedures that make up ...
Working with Familiespresents an innovative model for choosing specific intervention methods that meet the discriminate level of need of a particular family. This is one of the few texts that addresses work with families from a social worker's perspective. It assesses families by their level of need, from the most basic level (needs for food, ...
This work demonstrates how therapists can apply systems thinking to understand better clients' individual psyches. The Internal Family Systems model (IFS) uses family system concepts to draw a map of the network of subpersonlities that exist within each individual. Step by step details are combined with clinical examples to illustrate how ...
This basic how-to book provides a step-by-step outline of family therapy, from initial interview assessment to termination. It is designed to help beginning therapists translate theory into action and actually do family therapy. The book provides practical guidelines for conducting family interviews, giving readers the help they need to feel ...
Advice for helping children ages 3 to 19 through the crisis of a parent's serious illness. Covers such topics as what to tell a child about the illness; how children of different ages react; how to recognize early-warning signs of stress in artwork, play, and sleep patterns, eating habits and schoolwork; when and where to get professional help; ...
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