This text offers a straightforward, comprehensive overview of both traditional and evolving theoretical models of family therapy and intervention techniques as well as a discussion of clinical issues unique to family therapy practice. Aiming to prepare students to develop beginning proficiency in family therapy, the authors outline major family therapy models in detail, including a step by step description of concepts, theories, skills, and techniques as well as a history of each model and its conceptual and theoretical underpinnings. The text also provides extensive case illustrations of family interviews that identify the specific stages, clinical issues, concepts, theories and techniques associated with each model. This core text is designed for graduate level courses such as Family Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, Marriage and Family Counseling, Family Systems Theory, and Family Counseling in departments of social work, psychology, nursing, education, or human services. Table of Contents PART I: Introduction and Background
1. The History of Family Therapy: Conceptual and Clinical Influences
2. The Ecology of Families: A Systems/Developmental Perspective
3. Ethnicity and Family Life
Part II: Models of Family Therapy
4. Communications/Humanistic Family Therapy
5. Family of Origin Family Therapy
6. Structural Family Therapy
7. Strategic Family Therapy
8. Solution-Focused Family Therapy
9. Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
10. Narrative Family Therapy
Part III: Clinical Issues in Family Therapy
11. Phases of Family Therapy
12. Families in Transition: Alternative Family Patterns
13. Family Stress, Crisis, and Trauma: Building Family Resilience
14. Family Therapy Research: Implications for the Practicing Family Therapist
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