A Practical Guide to Family Therapy: Structured Guidelines and Key Skills

Synopsis

Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families.This second edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters which cover working with First Nations Families, diversity and family therapy, understanding emotions, and dialogical reflective processes. The book begins with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and use of self as a foundation, and from there provides the reader with practical, skill-oriented guidelines for working with families. From the first session to addressing the complexities of separated parents, parent-child relational breaches, family of origin issues, wider systems, managing emotions, diversity, and much more, the book takes the reader through core practices that will become essential skills for family work.Written by an expert team of authors committed to innovative and contextual practice, this book is for experienced clinicians who want to learn to work with families and for beginning therapists to learn from a structured approach to developing complex skills.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040046531

Related ISBNs:

9781040046524, 9781032789835, 9781032789842, 9781003490104

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

06/11/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Andrew Wallis, Kerrie James and Paul Rhodes

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Andrew Wallis

Edited by:

Kerrie James

Edited by:

Paul Rhodes