Title: Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (4th Edition)
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0205285317
ISBN 13: 9780205285310
Binding: hardcover
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: New
Dimensions: 2.5 centimeters width by 18.3 centimeters height by 24.4 centimeters depth

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Family Therapy provides a comprehensive survey of the field of marriage and family therapy, with a focus on the systems theoretical perspective. This systemic-cybernetic framework provides a theoretical “map” that permits an understanding of people in the context of their environment. The text is a survey of the field of family therapy that includes current developments, evolving models, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a “dynamic process model” for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships, including psychodynamic, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral approaches. Therapeutic modalities include individual, couple, group family, couples group, multiple family, networking, and symptom-focused.

This revision includes an up-to-date discussion of postmodernism in Chapter 4; an expanded discussion of family processes, development, and context in Chapter 6; questions and reflections from a second-order cybernetics/ postmodernist perspective in Chapters 7-13; and the most recent research findings and discussions in Chapter 15. An Instructor's Manual/Test Bank provides sample examinations as well as student exercises and additional teaching resources.

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The systemic-cybernetic framework in Family Therapy provides a framework for understanding people and families in context. The text―divided into three sections including The Systemic Framework, The Practice of Family Therapy, and The Systemic Practitioner―includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates.

What reviewers are saying about Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration. . .

“As teaching students to think systematically is one of my primary course objectives, the Becvar and Becvar text could not provide a better main text for meeting that particular objective.”
Cindy Carlson, University of Texas at Austin

“The authors have modified original counseling theories and updated them so that they are more user friendly. When it is time for me to make a textbook change, I will be strongly inclined to adopt this text for use in my Family Counseling Class.”
Dr. Wanda Staley, Morehead State University

Highlights of the Sixth Edition. . .

Updated with recent developments and ongoing issues of which the family therapy practitioner needs to be aware (Chapter 2).
Updated with new information about various approaches to family therapy (Chapters 6―13).
Increased emphasis on importance of training and supervision (Chapter 16).
Discussion of the most recent research findings as well as related methodological issues (Chapter 17).
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