Family Therapy: An Overview - Hardcover

Goldenberg, Irene; Goldenberg, Herbert

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9780534137465: Family Therapy: An Overview

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534137466 ISBN 13: 9780534137465

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1990

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Covering evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, and intervention techniques, as well as ethical and other professional issues, this text chronicles the history, development, training, research, and interventions of the field of family therapy. It includes a basic introduction to family systems theory and a family life cycle framework. The book also integrates references to alternative family styles, changing sex roles, ethnicity, socioeconomic influences, incest, substance abuse, and family violence. The work features case studies with transcripts of actual therapy sessions to bring theory to life for students.

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The strengths are many in the text-- readability, understandability, rich with detailed information... It helps to connect the theory with a real person as well as allow for a historical perspective on when this type of thinking about families occurred.

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