| | Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods (with Research Navigator for the Helping Professions) (7th Edition) |  | Authors: Michael P Nichols, Richard C Schwartz
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 7201043
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
ISBN: 0205544215
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780205544219
ASIN: 0205544215
Publication Date: October 28, 2005
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Product Description
This edition emphasizes contemporary approaches such as narrative and solution-focused therapies, and highlights such issues as poverty, social class, ethnicity, and spirituality. There is more emphasis on clinical practice, with clinical examples added throughout the book. There are new chapters on Integrative Models (Chapter 13) and on Research in Family Therapy (Chapter 15). The new chapter on Integrative Models includes information on working with family violence and conducting community family therapy. For anyone interested in family therapy.
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 Great overview! June 9, 2008
This book gives excellent overview of multiple methods of family therapy. I needed it for a class, but I will be keeping it because of it's easy use and my future in family therapy. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested or who will be going into therapy of any kind, family, individual, couples, etc.
 Wonderful Overview December 8, 2007
I asked my professor for an updated book that gave a large overview of the field of family therapy. Well laid out and shows a variety of different paradigms -- their optimal and nonoptimal techniques, lens, etc.
EXCELLENT - very readable November 3, 2007
This book is well written, very readable, and superbly organized. The chapters are concise and it never gets wordy or boring. And excellent introduction to family therapy for the beginner.
Great Over view of Family Therapy Theory September 9, 2007
I used this book for a master class. It has great over views of family therapy theory. Well worth reading.
Repetitive but comprehensive May 7, 2007
At first I was put off by the repetitive writing in this book. For example, chapters 2, 3, and then 4 "introduce" the notion of family homeostasis, negative feedback, and the cybernetic model as though for the first time. Why? Then, I decided that this somewhat hypnotic repitition had merit. I was beginning to repeat the words "family homeostasis," in my head, and always found that the name Don Jackson followed in my mind. In short, I was learning something. Seriously, though repetitive in parts, I liked the throughness of this book. It covers all the major theories and techniques of family therapy, introduces us to the historical figures who created it, and is full of practical suggestions about how to conduct family therapy sessions and formulate systems-oriented interventions. It is balanced, taking from many different orientations core elements and coming up with an integrative approach to the field. The authors have a sense of humor and obviously a lot of hands-on experience. I would recommend this book to beginning students in the field, or more experienced practioners wishing a thorough review.
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