This user-friendly book uses systems theory as an integrating framework for understanding the theory and practice of family therapy, it provides essential information for individuals preparing for the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy.
Family Therapy: A Systemic Approach 7th edition includes historical information, current developments, an overview of postmodemism, as well as consideration of various family and developmental theories that are integrated into a "dynamic process model" for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models discussed Include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive, and five postmodern approaches. Epistemological challenges in the context of practice, assessment, intervention, training, supervision, and research are described and discussed.
• Thoroughly updated throughout
• An updated table of events in family therapy in the context of world events (Chapter 2)
• Expanded definitions of difficult concepts throughout the text, particularly in the chapter describing the paradigmatic shift of systems theory (Chapter 3)
• A new figure in the chapter on postmodemism illustrating general worldview eras chronologically and placing the evolution of systems theory/family therapy Into historical context (Chapter 4)
• Expanded discussion of cognitive behavioral therapy in the chapter on behavioral/cognitive approaches (Chapter 12)
• Updated Information, including studies related to evidence-based practice as well as brief consideration of common factors, in the chapter on research in family therapy (Chapter 17)