Full Description
Family Therapy, second edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that provides students and practitioners with foundational concepts, theory, vocabulary, and skills to excel as a family therapist.
This book is a primer of how family therapists conceptualize the problems that people bring to therapy, utilize basic therapeutic skills to engage clients in the therapeutic process, and navigate the predominant models of family therapy. The text walks readers through the process of thinking like a family therapist, and each chapter utilizes various learning tools to help the reader further understand and apply the concepts. Chapters explore the history, context, and dominant theories of family therapy, as well as diversity, ethics, empathy, structuring sessions, and assessment. Written in a comprehensive and approachable style, this text provides readers with the foundational skills and tools essential for being a family therapist, and allows students and practitioners to work relationally and systemically with clients. The second edition widens its scope of the family therapy field with updated research and four brand-new chapters.
This is an essential text for introductory family therapy courses and a comprehensive resource for postgraduate students and the next generation of family therapists.
Contents
I. THINKING LIKE A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 1 A History of Family Therapy
Chapter 2 Systems Theory
Chapter 3 Self of the Therapist
Chapter 4 Your Clients
Chapter 5 Considering Diversity
Chapter 6 Ethics in Family Therapy
II. SKILLS OF A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 7 Beginning the Family Therapy Session
Chapter 8 Basic Empathy Skills
Chapter 9 Advanced Empathy Skills
Chapter 10 Mutualization
Chapter 11 Effective Use of Questions
Chapter 12 Use of Self in Therapy
Chapter 13 Dealing with Intensity
Chapter 14 Assessment in Family Therapy (co-written by Kayleigh Sabo & Michael D. Reiter)
Chapter 15 Goal Setting and Termination
III. THEORIZING LIKE A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 16 Intergenerational Family Therapies
Chapter 17 Experiential Family Therapies
Chapter 18 Strategic Family Therapies
Chapter 19 Systemic Family Therapies
Chapter 20 Postmodern Family Therapies
Chapter 21 Integrative Family Therapies
Chapter 22 Expansion of Family Therapy (co-written by Kayleigh Sabo & Michael D. Reiter)
