A therapist offers a striking and novel take on the "obligation" to forgive those who have done us wrong. Spring discusses situations when forgiveness may not be the best option, discusses the notions of forgiveness, repentance, and apology, and identifies four levels of forgiveness. In denying that forgiveness should be a knee-jerk response, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Straightforward advice on coping with a man's covert hostility--for any woman who has encountered a colleague who postpones every meeting, an adolescent who will do the dishes "in a minute", or a husband shocked by her reaction to his "innocent" comments.
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 ...
Now in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition, this widely adopted text and clinical reference provides a comprehensive guide to assessment and treatment of all of the major female and male sexual dysfunctions. Leading authorities demonstrate effective ways to integrate psychological, interpersonal, and medical interventions. Every ...
Everyone involved with AD/HD will find the information in this book invaluable, especially people with AD/HD and couples therapists, who often mistake AD/HD for "communication problems" or "personality differences." Meticulously researched and presented with empathy and humor, _Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?_ offers the latest information from ...
A revolution is occurring in the field of couple therapy. In this second edition, Susan M. Johnson brings up to date the EFT clinical road-map that she provided in the original and highly regarded 1996 edition.
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.
Practical skills and techniques that are based on how distressed and non-distressed couples differ in their problem-solving methods. Often used as a supplementary text for college counseling courses. Content Highlights 1 Listening and Validation -- checking impact with intent, giving feedback, summarizing 2 Leveling -- expressing feelings, being ...
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
Exploring the ways that clients' lives, and family therapy itself, are constrained by larger forces of racial, cultural, sexual, and class-based inequality, this groundbreaking volume expands the boundaries of the field and works toward truly inclusive clinical practice. Editor Monica McGoldrick - whose earlier Ethnicity and Family Therapy ...
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 ...
Research on why some couples divorce and others experience sustained bliss has led to a theory that successful couples have an abundance of good feelings towards one another and are able to deal with conflicts without becoming hostile. Packed with specific interventions and exercises, this book offers a theoretically based systematic approach to ...
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 ...
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