Family therapy trainees are inundated with a multitude of family therapy theories. They also have difficulty shifting from an individualistic view to one of seeing interactions and systems. Veteran therapist and founder of Structural Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin, goes back to basics with his two co-authors Michael D. Reiter and Charmaine Borda in The Craft of Family Therapy.
Key Features
- Teaches basic communication and family therapy skills.
- Includes Dr. Minuchin’s most interesting and illuminating cases.
- In-depth commentary on each case, emphasising techniques to refocus attention from the Identified Patient to the family as a whole.
- Ends with three supervision transcripts from Dr. Minuchin’s students.
- Consultation interviews conducted with each supervisee’s case family.
Additional Information
How do therapists hone their own methods with all of these choices? And how do they learn how to best treat families with all of the focus being taken away from their clients and redirected instead on processes? Perhaps most importantly, how can they learn through an inductive process of exploring what has occurred during the therapeutic session? Not only do readers re-learn basic techniques, such as reframing and joining, but they are treated to an in-depth commentary on each case, with Dr. Minuchin emphasising the techniques he uses that allow him to refocus attention from the Identified Patient to the family as a whole.
