| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xv, 524 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The child in family therapy : guidelines for active engagement across the age span / Tanya B. White and Richard Chasin -- Development in family contexts / Geri Fox -- Guidelines for a family assessment protocol / Edith Catlin Lawrence -- Family therapy in an age of biological psychiatry : diagnostic and treatment considerations / Allan M. Josephson -- The biology of family culture / Douglas A. Kramer -- Two-parent families, or how to love a two-headed monster / Douglas A. Kramer -- Successful African American single-parent families / Marion Lindblad-Goldberg -- Remarried systems / Mary F. Whiteside -- Children in foster families / Kim Sumner-Mayer -- Children with chronic illness and physical disabilities / Judith A. Libow -- Families with children with disrupted attachments / Lee Combrinck-Graham and Susan B. McKenna -- Children of parents with mental illness / Alan Cooklin -- The invisible illness : children in alcoholic families / Stuart A. Copans -- Families coping with the death of a parent : the therapist's role / Joan C. Barth -- The family's own system : the symbolic context of health / David V. Keith -- Partners for success : a collaborative project in school-based mental health practice and training / Phebe Sessions and Verba Fanolis -- Children in placement : a place for family therapy / Ann Itzkowitz -- The family and the legal system : the search for an intelligent integration / G. Pirooz Sholevar -- A model for disrupting cycles of violence in families with young children / John Brendler -- Of two worlds : working with children in immigrant families / Veronica Barenstein and Ema Genijovich -- The many cultures of child protection / Begum Maitra. |
| Summary |
"Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this book provides a conceptual framework and extensive practical advice for conducting family-based therapy for childhood emotional and behavioral problems. |
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The noted contributors represent diverse theoretical approaches, but all share a focus on the family as the primary context of development - and the most important resource for children who are struggling. |
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Thoroughly rewritten to reflect 15 years of advances in the field, and featuring many new authors and new chapters, the second edition is sure to become a widely used text and professional resource."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Child mental health.
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Child psychiatry.
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Family psychotherapy.
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Families -- Mental health.
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Family Therapy.
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Child.
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Family.
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Infant.
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Systems Theory.
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| Added Author |
Combrinck-Graham, Lee.
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| ISBN |
1593852630 cloth |
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9781593852634 |
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