Description
Book SynopsisThis book draws together theories and techniques from the diverse schools of family therapy, combining them with practical clinical approaches in a single comprehensive resource. It presents the current body of theoretical knowledge and the latest empirically based clinical applications in the field.
Trade ReviewThe book's 35 authors make up a highly eminent and distinguished group of clinician-scholars who have provided us with a well-written, well-edited collection of 38 chapters, covering every conceivable aspect of family and couples therapy. . . . This comprehensive, current, and thoroughly up-to-date tome fills a vital need. It provides a comprehensive picture of what is seminal and traditional in family psychology as well as what is innovative and on the cutting edge. It is one of the most important books on family therapy that I have reviewed in the past several years, and it deserves a place on the bookshelf of every health care professional. It should be definitive for years to come.
-- William Vogel, Ph.D. * Psychiatric Services *
Table of ContentsContributors
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Family Theory and Therapy: An Overview
Part II: Family Therapy: Theory and Techniques
Chapter 2. Structural Family Therapy
Chapter 3. Constructing Therapy: From Strategic, to Systemic, to Narrative Models
Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Family Therapy
Chapter 5. Multigenerational Family Systems Theory of Bowen and Its Application
Chapter 6. Contextual Therapy
Chapter 7. Behavioral Family Therapy
Chapter 8. Psychoeducational Family Intervention
Chapter 9. Social Network Intervention
Chapter 10. Gender-Sensitive Family Therapy
Chapter 11. Techniques of Family Therapy; Family Theories: Conclusion
Part III: Family Assessment
Chapter 12. Initial and Diagnostic Family Interviews
Chapter 13. Family Assessment
Chapter 14. The Family Life Cycle: A Framework for Understanding Family Development
Chapter 15. Functional and Dysfunctional Families
Chapter 16. Diagnosis of Family Relational Disorders
Part IV: Family Therapy With Children and Adolescents
Chapter 17. Family Therapy With Children and Adolescents: An Overview
Chapter 18. Family Therapy With Children: A Model for Engaging the Whole Family
Chapter 19. Parent Management Training
Part V: Couples Therapy
Chapter 20. Couples Therapy: An Overview
Chapter 21. Psychodynamic Couples Therapy
Chapter 22. Behavioral Couples Therapy
Chapter 23. The Divorcing Family: Characteristics and Interventions
Chapter 24. The Remarried Family: Characteristics and Interventions
Chapter 25. Marital Enrichment in Clinical Practice
Chapter 26. Sex Therapy at the Turn of the Century: New Awareness and Response
Part VI: Family Therapy With Different Disorders
Chapter 27. Family Variables and Interventions in Schizophrenia
Chapter 28. Depression and the Family: Interpersonal Context and Family Functioning
Chapter 29. Family Intervention and Psychiatric Hospitalization
Chapter 30. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and Family Psychiatry: Working Toward a Collaborative Model
Chapter 31. Alcoholic and Substance-Abusing Families
Chapter 32. Family Intervention With Incest
Chapter 33. Family Therapy With Personality Disorders
Chapter 34. Impact of Culture and Ethnicity on Family Interventions
Chapter 35. Medical Family Therapy
Part VII: Research in Family and Couples Therapy
Chapter 36. The State of Family Therapy Research: A Positive Prognosis
Chapter 37. Couples Therapy Research: Status and Directions
Chapter 38. Conclusion and Future Directions
References
Index
