The only annotated full-text reader that addresses key issues in family therapy
Filling the need for a resource that goes beyond the scope of basic textbooks, this reader provides a compilation of 18 full-text articles that highlight family therapy models and related issues. The editors have included a diverse range of topics authored by leading scholars to showcase the far-reaching capacity of the field. Each article includes editorial comments that offer even greater context for readers.
Although it is designed as a stand-alone text, this reader can be used in conjunction with the upcoming Family Therapy: Models, Skills, and Techniques to enhance students' understanding of topics presented in the book chapters: the history of family therapy, modern family structures and challenges, approaches to clinical practice, ethical issues, and more.
This reader can be used in any Family/Marriage Therapy course in psychology, nursing, social work, human services, and other related disciplines.
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Introduction
Ch 1. Karl Tomm: His Changing Views on Family Therapy Over 35 Years
Ch 2. Living Arrangements Over the Life Course: Families in the 21st Century
Ch 3. Understanding Culture and Worldview in Family Systems: Use of the Multicultural Genogram
Ch 4. Maslow Revisited: Constructing a Road Map of Human Nature
Ch 5. Family-Of-Origin Work for Counseling Trainees and Practitioners
Ch 6. How Collaborative is Structural Family Therapy?
Ch 7. For Parents Only: A Strategic Family Therapy Approach in School Counseling
Ch 8. The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Therapy With Children in a School Setting
Ch 8. A helping Hand: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Ch 9. The Case of Molly L.: Use of a Family Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Anxiety
Ch 10. Ethics of Family Narrative Therapy
Ch 11. Review of narrative Therapy: Research and Utility
Ch 11. Basic Principles of Intervention
Ch 12. Parental Divorce and Family Functioning: Effects on Differentiation Levels of Young Adults
Ch 12. Counseling Gay and Lesbian Families: Theoretical Considerations
Ch 13. Trauma Symptoms in Preschool-Age Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Ch 13. "It's the Little Things": Women, Trauma, and Strategies for Healing
Ch 14. Marriage and Family Counseling: Ethics in Context
About the Editors
- Theories of various approaches to assessing and intervening with families;
- Understanding the similarities, differences and strategies of change among the major models of family therapy;
- Most current available research on the effectiveness of different approaches to family intervention;
- Family functioning from a life cycle perspective, taking into account client's race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender issues, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and differences from the "traditional" family;
- Techniques and strategies related to stages of the intervention in family therapy;
- Critique of the appropriateness of the theoretical models and its intervention techniques according to family developmental factors as well as the particular needs of the family.
