Readings in Family Therapy
From Theory to Practice
Edited by:
December 2009 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This reader will serve as a supplemental resource for the text: Family Therapy: Models, Skills and Techniques: A Comprehensive Introduction, and the Instructors Manual.
The Reader has two purposes:
- to provide background reading material to assist the instructor in the preparation of class room lectures and
- to provide additional resources beyond the scope of an introductory family therapy textbook
Janice M. Rasheed, Mikal N. Rasheed, James A. Marley
Introduction
Don Collins, Karl Tomm
Ch 1. Karl Tomm: His Changing Views on Family Therapy Over 35 Years
Regina M. Bures
Ch 2. Living Arrangements Over the Life Course: Families in the 21st Century
Anita Jones Thomas
Ch 3. Understanding Culture and Worldview in Family Systems: Use of the Multicultural Genogram
Dennis O'Connor, Leodones Yballe
Ch 4. Maslow Revisited: Constructing a Road Map of Human Nature
Connie M. Kane
Ch 5. Family-Of-Origin Work for Counseling Trainees and Practitioners
Ryan T. Hammond and Michael P. Nichols
Ch 6. How Collaborative is Structural Family Therapy?
Judith A. Nelson
Ch 7. For Parents Only: A Strategic Family Therapy Approach in School Counseling
Cynthia Franklin, Joan Biever, Kelly Moore, David Clemons, and Monica Scamardo
Ch 8. The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Therapy With Children in a School Setting
John Wheeler
Ch 8. A helping Hand: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Amy Krain, Jennifer L. Hudson, Meredith Coles, and Philip Kendall
Ch 9. The Case of Molly L.: Use of a Family Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Anxiety
Christopher Peyton Miller and Alan W. Forrest
Ch 10. Ethics of Family Narrative Therapy
Mary Etchison, David M. Kleist
Ch 11. Review of narrative Therapy: Research and Utility
Mark S. Carich, Karen Spilman
Ch 11. Basic Principles of Intervention
Patrick Johnson, Jill M. Thorngren, and Adina J. Smith
Ch 12. Parental Divorce and Family Functioning: Effects on Differentiation Levels of Young Adults
Jennifer L. Adams, Jodi D. Jaques, and Kathleen M. May
Ch 12. Counseling Gay and Lesbian Families: Theoretical Considerations
Alytia A. Levendosky, Alissa C. Huth-Bocks, Michael A. Semel, Deborah L. Shapiro
Ch 13. Trauma Symptoms in Preschool-Age Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Vanja M. K. Stenius, Bonita M. Veysey
Ch 13. "It's the Little Things": Women, Trauma, and Strategies for Healing
Stephen Southern, Robert L. Smith, Marvarene Oliver
Ch 14. Marriage and Family Counseling: Ethics in Context
About the Editors
This is a very useful and well-written text which covers many relevant aspects of contemporary family therapy. In addition there are chapters on ethics and research re narrative therapy which capture complex issues effectively.
Nursing , Bradford University
February 25, 2010
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 - The History of Family Therapy
Chapter 2 - The Ecology of Families