Basic Family Therapy

by Barker (Author)

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  1992

  $3.50

  The third edition of this text provides an introduction to the field of family therapy. It offers a basic orientation to the field and covers all the main contemporary schools of family therapy. It also presents a coherent model of therapy which students can apply as they start learning the skills they need to work effectively with families. The book has been thoroughly revised to take account of the considerable advances in this fast-growing field. It discusses some new theoretical ideas and describes innovative techniques which have been developed in the six years since the second edition was published.

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  Paperback
  1987

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  This edition offers students a starting point for family work and shows how concepts derived from a variety of family therapy theories and other sources may be integrated into this basic approach. The student will eventually be able to treat effectively an increasing variety of both simple and complex clinical problems. Thoroughly revised to take account of the considerable advances in the field of family therapy, the book places more emphasis on Ericson's approach and strategic therapy, with expanded sections on teaching, learning and research.