With its combined focus on inclusion, social justice, and evidence-based practice, this book will help clinicians work with todays diverse families in effective, culturally responsive ways. The book examines several common interactional challenges that contemporary families face, such as co-parenting, divorce, intimate partner violence, and ......
A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material. The volume explores how family relationships--and therapy itself--are profoundly shaped by race, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ......
Provides students of family therapy with a unique opportunity to understand and compare the inner workings of 14 traditional and non-traditional family therapy models. The book demonstrates, through innovative ""guiding templates"", how the different therapeutic models are applied in an actual family therapy situation.
Presents a comprehensive systemic approach to treating difficult divorce. Drawing on the integrative tradition that considers both individual and systemic processes, Dr Lebow describes strategies for intervention that show therapists how to calm individuals, couples, and families in distress, and help ease the transition to a new family structure.
Drawing on real-life cases as well as research data, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate distills the current psychiatric knowledge of different forms of murder within the family. Although crimes of this sort have made headlines for decades -- and although violence and homicide within the family are public health issues -- little guidance ......
Providing a detailed, engaging overview of counseling psychology, this book examines its empirical foundations, its guiding principles, and the methods used in both research and practice. The third edition discusses contemporary research and theories, including feminist multicultural counseling.
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive, user-friendly coverage of measurement and design issues and basic qualitative and quantitative methods. Illustrating research concepts with clinically ......
... a well rounded road map for healing the trauma wounds... As a child psychiatrist with over 35 years of practice, I can only say I wish I had a guide like this when I was starting out. Highly recommended!"" - Scott Shannon, MD author of Mental Health for the Whole Child A step-by-step approach to trauma-informed treatment. This is the first ......
