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Family Therapy:
A Systemic Integration
5th Edition
Dorothy Stroh Becvar,
Raphael J. Becvar
0-205-36005-X
Cloth
413 pages
2003
Brief Description
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 an understanding of people in the context of their environment. The text—divided into three sections for theoretical frameworks, models of family therapy, and the practice of family therapy—includes current developments, evolving models, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a “dynamic process model” for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships, including psychodynamic, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral approaches. Therapeutic modalities include individual, couple, group family, couples group, multiple family, networking, and symptom-focused.
Appropriate Courses
Designed for Introduction to Family Therapy courses in departments of social work, psychology, and counseling, as well as for family departments or institutes.
Features
- Provides a user-friendly guide to understanding the world of family therapy and shifting from an individual psychology paradigm to a systemic/cybernetic paradigm.
- Presents a theoretical map that allows for a vision of a totally conjoined universe.
Encourages students to learn how to think and operate in a self-referential manner.
- Explicates and uses the systems theory as an integrating framework for understanding the theory and practice of family therapy.
- Builds a bridge between a systemic/cybernetic epistemology and postmodernism.
Helpful to individuals preparing to take the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy.
- Vignettes, examples, and current research findings and applications provide excellent coverage of family therapy from a systems theory perspective.
New to this Edition
Up-to-date discussion of postmodernism in Chapter 4.
Expanded discussion of family processes, development, and context in Chapter 6.
Questions and reflections from a second-order cybernetics/postmodernist perspective in Chapters 7-13.
Includes the most recent research findings and discussions in family assessment (Ch. 15).
Contents
Each chapter concludes with “Summary.”
Preface.
PART I. THE SYSTEMIC FRAMEWORK.
1. Two Different World Views.
2. The Historical Perspective.
3. The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory.
4. Postmodernism and Family Therapy.
5. The Family: Process, Development, and Context.
II. THE PRACTICE OF FAMILY THERAPY.
6. Psychodynamic Approaches.
7. Natural Systems Theory.
8. Experiential Approaches.
9. The Structural Approach.
10. Communications Approaches.
11. Strategic Approaches and the Milan Influence.
12. Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches.
13. Postmodern Approaches.
III. THE SYSTEMIC PRACTITIONER.
14. Family Assessment.
15. Therapeutic Intervention and Strategies.
16. Training and Supervision.
17. Research in Family Therapy.
18. Epistemological Challenges: Thinking About Our Thinking.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
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