Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse systemic family therapy (SFT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
This book surveys the state of the science and practice of today's couple and family therapy, looking beyond single models of treatment to instead present an integrative view of the field and its methods of practice.
Providing a detailed, engaging overview of counseling psychology, this book examines its empirical foundations, its guiding principles, and the methods used in both research and practice. The third edition discusses contemporary research and theories, including feminist multicultural counseling.
This practical, evidence-based resource is the first available guide for health care providers and mental health professionals on advising and counselling couples and individuals who are experiencing sexual issues directly related to conception efforts, pregnancy, and the post-partum period.
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive, user-friendly coverage of measurement and design issues and basic qualitative and quantitative methods. Illustrating research concepts with clinically ......
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive, user-friendly coverage of measurement and design issues and basic qualitative and quantitative methods. Illustrating research concepts with clinically ......
Child to Parent Violence and Abuse is the first accessible, step-by-step practitioner's guide to understanding and working effectively with the thousands of families experiencing an underreported but deeply traumatic problem within the home.
Empowering Families to Meet the Challenges of Aging
Presents Caregiver Family Therapy (CFT), a systems approach to treating families that care for an ageing adult. CFT consists of three core stages: identifying the problem; structuring caregiver roles; and ensuring caregiver self-care. Full of rich clinical examples, this book will help therapists and other service providers meet the complex, ......
A clinical guide that shows practitioners how to transform family interactions from conflictive to collaborative, from habitual to proactive, so that the love trapped behind the anger can flourish, and family members can rebond in loving and mutually caring relationships.
Working with Emotions and the Therapeutic Relationship
Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous for -- pragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and build on their strengths. Yet when applied in a "one-size-fits-all" manner, these techniques may produce disappointing results and leave clinicians ......
Volume 1: Foundations, Methods, and Contemporary Issues Across the Lifes
Edited and authored by leaders in the field, this comprehensive three-volume set lays a solid foundation for integrating theory, research, practice, and policy in contemporary family psychology.
A Guide to Helping Adopted Children and Their Families Thrive
Children who are adopted at an older age through foster care and those adopted from overseas orphanages are at high risk for behavioural and emotional distress. This important manual presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for providing mental health treatment to families adopting vulnerable children.
Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention
Rich with illustrative case material, this book guides mental health professionals to break the cycle of at-risk behavior by engaging adolescents and their families in home, school, and community contexts. The authors explore the multigenerational patterns that shape the lives of poor and ethnic minority adolescents and present innovative ......
Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention
Rich with illustrative case material, this book guides mental health professionals to break the cycle of at-risk behavior by engaging adolescents and their families in home, school, and community contexts. The authors explore the multigenerational patterns that shape the lives of poor and ethnic minority adolescents and present innovative ......
From pioneering family-based treatment developer James Lock, this is the first comprehensive guide to adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) for anorexia nervosa (AN), an evidence-based individual approach. AFT is an effective alternative to family-based treatment that may be a better fit for some patients. Lock explains how AN serves as a maladaptive ......
