A Practical Guide to Family Therapy
This book will serve as a key text for anyone seeking to develop and improve their interviewing and intervention skills when working with families. It provides a detailed set of pragmatic steps for family therapy, without sacrificing the essential creativity of the therapeutic enterprise. The book is structured to match the progress of therapy, from first assessment session, to those that focus specifically on safety, establishing parental hierarchy, dealing with breached relationships, couple sessions, family of origin sessions, and more. Particular attention is also given to a host of skills for working with adolescents, smaller children, and the wider system. Paul Rhodes and Andrew Wallis have assembled a group of authors who mirror their commitment to innovative and contextual practice, grounded in systemic family therapy, but also drawing on a variety of other models, including structural family therapy, brief solution-focused therapy, and narrative therapy. The contributors to this book are all highly experienced practitioners, sharing their technical skills, cases, therapeutic stories, and passion for supporting families in distress. The book is suitable for a wide range of disciplines, including social work, counselling, clinical psychology, and psychiatry. Beginning therapists will benefit from the clear and direct structure provided, supporting the difficult learning process. Experienced clinicians will find a very useful compendium of contemporary systemic practice.
Bibliographic details:
To be published, October, 2011. 245 x 170mm. 288 pages.
Includes references and index.
Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-9808649-3-9. $A60.00 rrp.