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Family Therapy —
History, Theory, and Practice
3rd Edition
Samuel T. Gladding
0-13-016720-7
Cloth
496 pages
2002
Brief Description
For upper level undergraduate or beginning graduate level marriage and family counseling courses offered through counselor education, child and family studies, and psychology departments.
This best selling text has been thoroughly updated to reflect a current and in-depth look at the field of family therapy. It retains its unique approach of leading the reader developmentally from understanding how families function to using therapeutic techniques that will help them change. Extremely organized and well written, this edition offers comprehensive coverage of all major theories of family therapy.
Features
Popular four-part format. Organizes content in a logical, developmental format:
- Understanding Families,
- Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Families,
- Special Populations in Family Therapy, and
- Professional Issues and Research in Family Therapy.
Practitioner oriented. Focuses on "how" to work with different types of families.
Illustrations, diagrams, summaries, and a glossary.
Assists readers in understanding and retaining the main points of the text.
New To This Edition
An entire chapter on the treatment of substance abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse in families. Contains information on the dynamics underlying these different forms of dysfunctionality as well as ways that work in helping families faced with these problems.
Expanded coverage of professional issues in family therapy and the process of family therapy.
Provides the latest information about associations dedicated to promoting family therapy and means by which therapists can best assist families in entering and being successful in treatment.
A student workbook by Monserrat Casado, Mark Young, and Scott Rasmus, all of the University of Central Florida.
Offers structured exercises and questions to stimulate reflection on text material.
Contents
I. UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES.
1. Individual and Family Life Cycles.
2. Healthy and Dysfunctional Characteristics of Families.
II. THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH FAMILIES.
3. Rationale and History of Family Therapy.
4. The Process of Family Therapy.
5. Psychodynamic and Bowenian Family Therapies.
6. Experiential Family Therapy.
7. Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies.
8. Structural Family Therapy.
9. Strategic and Systemic Family Therapies.
10. Solution-Focused and Narrative Family Therapies.
III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN FAMILY THERAPY.
11. Working with Single-Parent Families.
12. Working with Remarried Families.
13. Working with Culturally Diverse Families.
14. Working with Substance-Related Disorders, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse in Families.
IV. PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND RESEARCH IN FAMILY THERAPY.
15. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy.
16. Research and Assessment in Family Therapy.
Appendix A: AAMFT Code of Ethics.
Appendix B: Ethical Code for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.
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