A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice Involving Families Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice covers all aspects of working with couples and families.

Drawing on a rich theoretical background of evidence-based practice and marriage and family therapy, it presents important background information for the healthy functioning of families of all configurations, provides an overview of how the individual and family life cycles are intertwined, and provides evidence-based interventions used to work with families in need of counseling Specific and clear examples (with plenty of case studies) are provided to illustrate the evidence-based interventions used to work with families in need of counseling. The 7th edition adds chapters on psychodynamic family theory, Bowen family systems theory, solution-oriented brief therapy, and narrative family therapy, and more than 240 new citations.

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