Ira D. Glick, Douglas S. Rait, Alison M. Heru, Michael Ascher

Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an updated edition of the classic textbook on couple and family therapy through a psychiatric lens. It delineates clinical practice, research, and training issues, in part through case examples. The book presents family therapy and family-oriented interventions with an emerging evidence-base in an easy-to-read and digestible manner.

The book is organized into six sections, starting with the history of the field followed by general concepts of family function and dysfunction, evaluation, treatment, indications, and results. All this aids the reader into gaining an understanding about the underlying principles and hypotheses behind family models of treatment. Readers will also become familiar with techniques that can be utilized in the therapeutic space to foster change and growth in both patients and their families. The text addresses the need for the modern day clinician to have a solid foundation in cultural competency and to be able to work with patients who come from a myriad of cultural, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, the book also covers ethical quandaries, professionalism, and training issues.

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Fifth edition of a classic text that views couples and family therapy through a psychiatric lens
Written by clinicians with a biopsychosocial perspective on illness and family dysfunction
Draws on case studies to present family-oriented interventions in an accessible manner
Explores underlying principles along with a wide range of practical therapeutic techniques
Culturally inclusive, enabling readers to work with patients from diverse backgrounds

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 5. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9781118897256
• ISBN-10: 1118897250
• Artikelnr.: 42338986

Autorenporträt

Ira D. Glick is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and formerly Chief of the Schizophrenia Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Douglas S. Rait is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chief of the Couples and Family Therapy Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Alison M. Heru is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, USA. Michael S. Ascher is Clinical Associate in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Forewords xix Ellen M. Berman MD, Lloyd I. Sederer MD Preface xxvii
Acknowledgments xxxi A Guide for Using the Text xxxiii List of Tables
xxxvii List of Figures xxxix Section I Family Therapy in Context 1 The
Field of Couples and Family Therapy: Development and Definition 5 2 Family
Life in Historical and Sociological Perspective 23 Section II Functional
and Dysfunctional Families 3 Understanding the Functional Family 41 4
Understanding the Functional Family in a Variety of Family Forms 59 5
Problems and Dysfunction from an Integrated Family Systems Perspective 75
Section III Family Evaluation 6 The Process of Evaluation 95 7 The Content
of Evaluation 107 8 Formulating an Understanding of the Family Problem
Areas 117 Section IV Family Treatment 9 Major Family Therapy Schools and
Their Treatment Strategies 137 10 Goals 147 11 Family Treatment: Integrated
Strategies and Techniques 157 12 The Course of Family Treatment 175 13
Promoting Change in Family Treatment: Issues of Alliance and Resistance 189
14 Family Therapy: General Considerations203 Section V Couples Therapy 15
Dysfunctional Couples and Couples Therapy 221 16 Sex Couples and Sex
Therapy 235 17 Couples and Families Breaking Apart: Separation and Divorce
249 Section VI Family Treatment When One Member Has a Psychiatric Disorder
or Other Special Problem 18 Family Treatment in the Context of Individual
Psychiatric Disorders 267 19 Family Treatment in the Context of Other
Special Problems--Violence to Self and Others 301 20 The Family and
Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Illness 321 21 Working with
Families in the Section VII Results of and Guidelines for Recommending
Family Therapy 23 Controversies Relative Contraindications and the Use and
Misuse of Couples and Family Therapy 371 24 Results: The Outcomes of
Couples and Family Therapy 381 Section VIII Ethical Professional and
Training Issues 25 Ethical and Professional Issues in Couples and Family
Therapy 405 Suggested Reading 419 References 419 Index 421