Salvador Minuchin, Michael Nichols, Wai Yung Lee

Assessing Families and Couples

From Symptom to System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A step-by-step guide to assessing couples and families, Assessing Families and Couples, offers a clear delineation of the process of family therapy through richly illustrated case material; featuring clients from a diversity of backgrounds. Appealing to both new and experienced therapists, Assessing Families and Couples, portrays a clear picture of what occurs in a two-session model when conducting a family therapy assessment. In the absence of a videotape to depict the process of therapy, readers can still visualize the details of the therapeutic journey in a step-by-step manner. Students and instructors alike, will find this book an invaluable tool for the learning and teaching of family therapy assessment. The text begins with a brief historical review of family therapy and continues with a detailed explanation of the authors' four-step assessment model. The assessment model is illustrated by a series of thoroughly detailed case studies, featuring African-American, European, Latin-American, Spanish, Irish, and Chinese families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education (US)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 177mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780205470129
• ISBN-10: 0205470122
• Artikelnr.: 21018049

Inhaltsangabe

 
 
PREFACE.
1. Introduction: A Four-Step Model for Assessing Couples and Families.
I. TROUBLED CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS.
2. The Parentified Child.
3. Conflictual Couple/Triangulated Children.
 
II. STEP-FAMILIES.
4. The Teenager Who Was a Liar.
5. Three Dyads Are Less Than a Whole Family.
 
III. COMPLEMENTARY COUPLES.
6. .  Agitated Depression in an Adult Woman.
7.  The Woman Whose Hands Were Always Dirty.
 
IV. PSYCHOSOMATIC FAMILIES.
8.  Oedipus with Stomach Cramps.
9.  A Young Chinese Man with Anorexia Nervosa.
 
V. THE FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES
10. Three-Generations of Women.
11.  Residential Treatment of Drug Addiction and the Family.     
 
EPILOGUE.