Families and Family Therapy

Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The

If individuals cannot adequately be understood without reference to the family system, families themselves are comprehensible only in a broader social context.

Today's clinical social workers face a spectrum of social issues and problems of a scope and severity hardly imagined just a few years ago and an ever-widening

This edition builds on the case material of the first edition and develops the editors' therapeutic approach that identifies normative family rituals as the bas

A master class in family therapy--now updated with an additional ten years' case experience Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice

Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach presents basic knowledge about family counseling and applies various theoretical models to a case examp

Multi-generational Family Therapy reveals the limits of the medical model in treating mental and relational problems. It instead provides a toolkit for therapis

A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his

Secret-keeping is a seemingly unavoidable part of human interaction, from governments to married couples. Unlike privacy, which in the West is considered a heal