Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods (The Merrill Social Work and Human Services)

Explore the history and practice of family therapy with an authoritative, readable, informative guide

• An engaging, accessible writing style keeps readers interested and informed. Using this book as a guide, readers are able to:
• • Describe various appropriate clinical approaches
  • Understand old and new developments in the field
  • Analyze successes and failures in research, and the impact on current clinical practices
  • Compare different schools of family therapy and explain the contemporary status of distinct schools of therapy
• An emphasis on clinical practice puts readers into the everyday aspects of their work with families, including:
• • NEW - A new chapter on research in family therapy (Ch. 15) includes a discussion on common factors and recommendations for bridging the research-practice gap
  • UPDATED - Recommendations for establishing a fee-for-service private practice (Ch. 3)
  • UPDATED - New case studies that illustrate the concepts, including the best cases of several invited master therapists
  • Discussions of the author''s observations of actual sessions with leading practitioners
• An up-to-date look at some of the most current issues in the field, including:
• • Coverage of the Affordable Care Act
  • UPDATED - An expanded and updated section on technology, including a discussion of the effects of technology on family relationships and adolescent emotional development (Ch. 10)
  • NEW - A list of prominent training centers and recommended readings in each theory chapter
  • NEW - A new section on immigration (Ch. 10)
  • NEW - A new section on community mental health (Ch. 3)
  • UPDATED - An expanded discussion of Bowen theory (Ch. 4)
  • NEW - A new section on emotional affairs (Ch. 3)
  • UPDATED - An expanded discussion of narrative externalizing questions (Ch.13)

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