Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research! Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text, Second Edition, presents twenty-two basic psychological concepts that therapists may use to understand clients and provide successful services to them. Each chapter focuses on a single concept using material from family therapy literature and various research studies, making it particularly useful for therapists working with child- or adolescent-referred problems.
Key Features
- The importance of spirituality and religion in family therapy
- Generational boundaries, closeness, and role behaviours
- Managing a family's emotions
- Defining problems
Additional Information
This new edition builds on the strengths of the first edition, incorporating ideas and articles that have become worthy of investigating since 1990. It introduces five new chapters on resiliency and poverty, adoption, chronic illness, spirituality and religion, and parenting strategies. These new chapters make the book far more relevant for students and clinicians trying to use family theory and technique in response to the problems they see in their communities.
Specifications
Basic Concepts in Family Therapy will assist you in offering clients better services by providing a deeper understanding of the contemporary family in its various forms, the psychological bonds that shape all families, and the developmental stages of the family life cycle. This exploration of how family demography, stages, and life cycles affect family functions is a solid foundation from which all of the therapeutic concepts in this book can be explored.
