Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (7th Edition)

This comprehensive, yet user-friendlysurvey of the field of marriage and family therapy takes a holistic view and looks at people within the context of their environment.

Thesystemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understanding people and families in context. The text divided into three sections including The Systemic Framework, The Practice of Family Therapy, and The Systemic Practitioner includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a dynamic process model for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, Assessment; Intervention; Training/Supervision; Research; and Epistemological Challenges are described and discussed