| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
xlviii, 739 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Family therapy in context. The field of marital and family therapy: development and definition -- Family life in historical and sociological perspective -- Functional and dysfunctional families. Understanding the functional family -- Understanding the functional family: alternative family forms -- Problems and dysfunction from a family systems perspective -- Family evaluation. The process of evaluation -- The content of evaluation -- Formulating and understanding of the family problem areas -- Tools for evaluation, including rating scales and tests -- Family treatment. Major schools of family therapy -- Goals -- Family treatment: strategies and techniques -- The course of family treatment -- Promoting change in family treatment: issues of alliance and resistance -- Family therapy: general considerations -- Brief family therapy: treatment as it is influenced by time constraints -- Treatment as it is influenced by issues of ethnicity, race, gender, and class -- Treatment as it is influenced by issues specific to African American families / with Marlene F. Watson -- Couples therapy. Dysfunctional couples and couples therapy -- Sex, marriage, and marital and sex therapy -- Separation and divorce / with Richard M. Patel -- The couple and reproductive issues -- Lesbian and gay couples / with Laura Markowitz and John T. Patten -- Family treatment when one member has a psychiatric disorder or other special problem. Family treatment in the context of individual psychiatric disorders -- Family treatment in the context of other special problems: violence to self and others -- The family and treatment of acute and chronic psychiatric illness -- Results of and guidelines for recommending family therapy. Indications for and the sequence of family therapy evaluation and treatment -- Controversies, relative contraindications, and the use and misuse of marital and family therapy -- Results: the outcome of family therapy -- Family systems medicine and ethical, professional, and training issues. Treating the medically ill patient: a family systems medicine perspective -- Ethical and professional issues in family therapy. |
| Subject |
Family psychotherapy.
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Marital psychotherapy.
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Family psychotherapy.
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Marital psychotherapy.
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| Added Author |
Glick, Ira D., 1935-
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| ISBN |
0880485485 alkaline paper |
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