Description
Book SynopsisThis authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties.
A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia:
- Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy
- Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families
- Integrative treatment for infidelity
- Live supervision in couple and family therapy
- Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms
- Split alliance in couple and family therapy
- Transgender couples and families
The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice.
Table of ContentsAcceptance vs. Behavior change in Couple and Family Therapy,Adult Attachment Interview,Child Sexual Abuse in Couple and Family Therapy,Dyadic Coping Inventory,Emotional Cutoff in Bowen Family Systems Theory,Families with Severe mental Illness,Identified Patient in Family Systems Theory,International Family Therapy Association,Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,Love,Mediation in Couple and Family Therapy,Modum Bad,Multisystemic Family Therapy,Neutrality of Therapist in Couple and Family Therapy,Object Relations Family Therapy,Parenting Wisely Enrichment Program,PFLAG,Reflecting Team Supervision in Couple and Family Therapy,Reframing in Couple and Family Therapy,Single Parent Families,Stages of Change in Couple and Family Therapy,Systemic-Transactional Model of Dyadic Coping,Training Solution-Focused Family Therapists,Values in Couple and Family Therapy,Violence in Couples and Families
