ABSTRACT

This volume reflects the achievements in developing new concepts and models of family therapy and new approaches to special clinical issues and problems during the 1980s. Chapters by experts such as Boszormenyi-Nagy, Everett, Guttman, Lankton, Liddle, McGoldrick, Madanes, and Walsh offer insight into a variety of areas including systems theory, cybernetics, and epistemology; contextual therapy; Ericksonian therapy; strategic family therapy; treating divorce in family therapy practice; ethnicity and family therapy; and training and supervision in family therapy.

part 1|62 pages

Historical and Conceptual Foundations

part 2|414 pages

Models of Family Therapy

chapter 2|31 pages

Behavioral Family Therapy

chapter 2|37 pages

Bowen Theory and Therapy

chapter 2|29 pages

Brief Therapy:The MRI Approach *

chapter 2|41 pages

Focal Family Therapy

Joining Systems Theory with Psychodynamic Understanding

chapter 2|21 pages

Strategic Family Therapy *

chapter 2|27 pages

Structural Family Therapy

part 3|221 pages

Special Issues and Applications