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Family Therapy
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Family Therapy
Models and Techniques



July 2010 | 536 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

 

This text will enable students to gain beginning proficiency as a family therapist along with understanding the impact of a client’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender issues, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and differences from the “traditional” family on family assessment and intervention.

 

The book has six goals, as follows:

 

- acquaint students with the theoretical underpinnings of various approaches to assessing and intervening with families

- assist students in understanding the similarities, differences and strategies of change among the major models of family therapy

- introduce the student to the current available research on the effectiveness of different approaches to family intervention - help students assess family functioning from a life cycle perspective and make a valid plan, taking into account client’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender issues, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and differences from the “traditional” family

- help students develop techniques and strategies related to stages of the intervention in family therapy

- enable the student to critique the appropriateness of the theoretical models and its intervention techniques according to family developmental factors as well as the particular needs of the family.

 
PART I: Introduction and Background
 
1. The History of Family Therapy: Conceptual and Clinical Influences
 
2. The Ecology of Families: A Systems/Developmental Perspective
 
3. Ethnicity and Family Life
 
Part II: Models of Family Therapy
 
4. Communications/Humanistic Family Therapy
 
5. Family of Origin Family Therapy
 
6. Structural Family Therapy
 
7. Strategic Family Therapy
 
8. Solution-Focused Family Therapy
 
9. Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
 
10. Narrative Family Therapy
 
Part III: Clinical Issues in Family Therapy
 
11. Phases of Family Therapy
 
12. Families in Transition: Alternative Family Patterns
 
13. Family Stress, Crisis, and Trauma: Building Family Resilience
 
14. Family Therapy Research: Implications for the Practicing Family Therapist
 
AAMFT Code of Ethics
 
About the Authors

excellent text. It includes a very reasonable and "deep" approach to multiculturalism in family therapy.

Dr Thomas Frederick
Social Science , California Baptist University
July 11, 2016

This is a helpful book for those interested in family therapy as it considers the links between family therapy and a range of theoretical concepts as well as the development of family therapy as an intervention.

Mrs Imelda Hatton-Yeo
School of Public health & Clinical Sci, University of Central Lancashire
June 10, 2015

This book will assist any social work practitioner or health professional interested in family work per se.

The history of family therapy provides a most interesting read and the chapter on dealing with crisis and trauma very insightful.

Mr Robert Bielby
faculty of health and social care sciences, Kingston University
May 9, 2015

A really accessible introductory text on family therapy which offers a comprehensive of the key theories and concepts Well-structured and laid out with helpful case examples.

Miss Jacky Foster
Social Work , Cornwall College
September 24, 2013

Very good text for graduate class. Comprehensive for those students who are looking to understand the vocabulary, models and the needs of families and children in particular. This is a good introductory course text. As an instructor, I enjoy having discussion questions in the book to refer to in class and to assign for extra credit assignment. I am using a companion book because the focus of this class is counseling addictive families.

Professor Jane Nichols
Rehabilitation Institute, Southern Illinois University
July 3, 2013

Excellent text. Will continue to use in future courses. Readable and thorough

Dr Donald Marks
Psychology Dept, Kean University
February 26, 2012

Having thought two classes the Family Systemic Counselling Theroy and Skills module this year I would recommend that this book be added to the core text book list in our bibliography for this module. This book covers most of the topics in the narratives for this module and it would be of great benifit to our students.

Mrs Gisela Oates
Counselling & Psychotherapy Dept, PCI College
January 4, 2012

An excellently written and structured book, giving the reader an excellent overview of all aspects of Family Therapy.

Mr Mike Bancroft
Counselling, Alton College
November 9, 2011

Excellent text. Will be considered for next cohort in 2012.

Professor Ron Thiessen
Humanities , Concordia University
November 2, 2011

The book best addresses the Social Work Concentration of Globally-Focused Family-Centered Practice.

Dr James Scherrer
Graduate School of Social Work, Dominican University
August 30, 2011

Janice Matthews Rasheed

Janice Matthews Rasheed is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago, School of Social Work. She received her Masters degree in social work from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a Doctorate degree in social welfare from Columbia University. She was the co-principal investigator for a multiyear research grant funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the study of poor, non-custodial African American fathers. She has published articles in the Journal of Community Practice, Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Journal of African American Men and the Journal of... More About Author

Mikal Nazir Rasheed

Mikal N. Rasheed is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Justice Studies and Social Work Department at Northeastern Illinois University. He formerly served on the faculties at the George Williams College of Social Work at Aurora University and was also the director of the Department of Social Work at Texas Southern University. He received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, and a Doctorate degree in social work from Loyola University Chicago. He is coauthor of two Sage publications, Social Work Practice with African American Men: the invisible presence and Family Therapy with... More About Author

James A. Marley

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