Family therapy: models and techniques

This text will enable students to gain beginning proficiency as a family therapist along with understanding the impact of a client’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender issues, age, socioeconomic status,disability, and differences from the “traditional” family on family assessment and intervention. The book has six goals, as follows: acquaint students withthe theoretical underpinnings of various approaches to assessing and intervening with families; assist students in understanding the similarities, differences and strategies of change among the major models of family therapy; introduce the student to the current available research on the effectiveness of different approaches to family intervention - help students assess family functioning from a life cycle perspective and make a valid plan, taking into account client’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender issues, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and differences from the “traditional” family; help students develop techniques and strategies related to stages of the intervention in family therapy; enable the student to critique the appropriateness of the theoretical models and its intervention techniques accordingto family developmental factors as well as the particular needs of the family.

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-0574-9
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés