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Long considered the standard of excellence–the best introduction and guide to the practice of family therapy available–this accessible resource explores the rich history and contemporary practice of the entire field. Thorough, thoughtful, fair, and balanced, Family Therapy by Michael P. Nichols presents ideas and techniques that give readers a clear focus on clinical practice. While exploring the history, the classic schools, and the latest developments, this new edition puts an increased, pragmatic focus on clinical practice, which includes discussions of the author’s observations of actual sessions with leading practitioners, as well as the best case studies of several invited master therapists. Included are video links, interactive chapter quizzes, new case studies, a new section on the impact of the Affordable Care Act, and many more content changes that bring the reader up to date on the latest and most critical issues in the field of family therapy today. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video and assessments.

 

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Illustrates family therapy techniques.

With its clinical focus and extremely practical presentation, The Essentials of Family Therapy, 6/e examines the rich history, classic schools, and latest developments in family therapy. The sixth edition is edited to focus more on the contemporary clinical practice and case studies illustrating family therapy techniques. Written by a leading family therapist, descriptions of the various models are based on actual experience.

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Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Utilize various family therapy techniques.
• Recognize the techniques of successful contemporaries in the field.
• Understand why research has failed to influence clinical practice.

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With its clinical focus and extremely practical presentation, the Fifth Edition of The Essentials of Family Therapy, examines the rich history, classic schools, and latest developments in family therapy, emphasizing clinical practice throughout.

Family Therapy: Concepts & Methods is the definitive, classic in the field and covers all the major schools and developments in Family Therapy.

 

Just some of the features that make this book so widely used -

• Brief biographies and photos of some of the leading family therapists of the twentieth century 
• Extensive coverage of professional ethics, reflecting the need for students to have increased awareness of professional issues in family therapy
• Unique issues family therapists encounter when providing home-based services
  Latest research and data - often before that research is published in other forums

• several new case studies
• a new summary of major theoretical concepts
• a new section on working with common forms of family trianges
• new sections on Sex and the Internet and Neuroscience and Relationships
• and much more!

"One thing that tends to get lost in academic discussions of family therapy is the feeling of accomplishment that comes from sitting down with an unhappy family and being able to help them. Beginning therapists are understandably anxious and not sure they'll know how to proceed. (“How do you get all of themto come in?”) Veterans often speak in abstractions. They have opinions and discuss big issues—postmodernism, narrative reconstructionism, second-order cybernetics. While it's tempting to use this space to say Important Things, I prefer to be a little more personal. Treating troubled families has given me the greatest satisfaction imaginable, and I hope that the same is or will be true for you."

 - Michael P. Nichols

 

Discussa, criticata, attaccata, difesa tenacemente, in crisi da decenni, spesso data per morta, ma sempre pronta a risorgere. Oggi più che mai, la famiglia è al centro di accese discussioni, tra chi la vorrebbe ancora rigida nella sua costellazione tradizionale e chi, pur riconoscendone il valore cardine nella società contemporanea, la vorrebbe invece flessibile e aperta. Salvador Minuchin, dopo mezzo secolo di pratica militante come terapeuta familiare, in questo volume insegna che il principale nemico del sistema-famiglia non è tanto il suo "allargamento" (solo uno dei suoi molti aspetti), ma al contrario, proprio la cristallizzazione dei ruoli, che porta al fallimento del nucleo in ben il sessanta per cento dei casi. Se le famiglie hanno molte forme e la strada che attraversa il cambiamento non è mai tracciata una volta per tutte, Salvador Minuchin cerca di fornire una mappa che aiuti a capire meglio quest'avventura in continuo divenire. Dall'alto della loro esperienza, Minuchin e colleghi mettono a fuoco le dinamiche familiari con semplicità. Grazie a un'esposizione limpida ed empatica consentono al lettore di toccare con mano alleanze, complicità, conflitti, insomma tutta la costellazione di sentimenti che uniscono (o disgregano) le famiglie.

Follow a family therapist's narrative diary as he documents the process of working with the Salazars, as they explore each stage of their relationship-from courtship through the departure of the children from the home.

 

This unique casebook provides an in-depth, personal account from the counselor's perspective, while also looking at the personal viewpoints of family members. Each major stage of the family life is presented in a separate chapter and the book includes discussions of the effects of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation on individuals and families.

Each of us is controlled in some way by shame, one of the ugliest emotions in human experience. It saps our self-respect, builds walls between people, and forces us to create elaborate defenses to protect ourselves. This informative and practical analysis of the role of shame in our lives helps us to understand the root of our insecurity. Only by facing and coming to terms with our shame can we begin to resolve insecurities and become free to participate fully in life. Nichols discusses love and worth, the social sources of humiliation, the frustration of adolescence, and positive parenting, among other important topics, in this wonderful combination of clinical sophistication, common sense, and humanity!