Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an updated edition of the classic textbook on couple and family therapy through a psychiatric lens. It delineates clinical practice, research, and training issues, in part through case examples. The book presents family therapy and family-oriented interventions with an emerging evidence-base in an easy-to-read and digestible manner.
Table of ContentsForewords xix
Ellen M. Berman MD, Lloyd I. Sederer MD
Preface xxvii
Acknowledgments xxxi
A Guide for Using the Text xxxiii
List of Tables xxxvii
List of Figures xxxix
Section I Family Therapy in Context
1 The Field of Couples and Family Therapy: Development and Definition 5
2 Family Life in Historical and Sociological Perspective 23
Section II Functional and Dysfunctional Families
3 Understanding the Functional Family 41
4 Understanding the Functional Family in a Variety of Family Forms 59
5 Problems and Dysfunction from an Integrated Family Systems Perspective 75
Section III Family Evaluation
6 The Process of Evaluation 95
7 The Content of Evaluation 107
8 Formulating an Understanding of the Family Problem Areas 117
Section IV Family Treatment
9 Major Family Therapy Schools and Their Treatment Strategies 137
10 Goals 147
11 Family Treatment: Integrated Strategies and Techniques 157
12 The Course of Family Treatment 175
13 Promoting Change in Family Treatment: Issues of Alliance and Resistance 189
14 Family Therapy: General Considerations203
Section V Couples Therapy
15 Dysfunctional Couples and Couples Therapy 221
16 Sex Couples and Sex Therapy 235
17 Couples and Families Breaking Apart: Separation and Divorce 249
Section VI Family Treatment When One Member Has a Psychiatric Disorder or Other Special Problem
18 Family Treatment in the Context of Individual Psychiatric Disorders 267
19 Family Treatment in the Context of Other Special Problems—Violence to Self and Others 301
20 The Family and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Illness 321
21 Working with Families in the
Section VII Results of and Guidelines for Recommending Family Therapy
23 Controversies Relative Contraindications and the Use and Misuse of Couples and Family Therapy 371
24 Results: The Outcomes of Couples and Family Therapy 381
Section VIII Ethical Professional and Training Issues
25 Ethical and Professional Issues in Couples and Family Therapy 405
Suggested Reading 419
References 419
Index 421
