Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice has been the psychiatric and mental health clinician's trusted companion for over four decades. This new fifth edition delivers the essential information that clinicians of all disciplines need to provide effective family-centered interventions for couples and families. A practical clinical guide, it helps clinicians integrate family-systems approaches with pharmacotherapies for individual patients and their families. Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice draws on the authors' extensive clinical experience as well as on the scientific literature in the family-systems, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience fields.
This updated classic textbook on couples and family therapy is written through a psychiatric and psychosocial lens. It delineates clinical practice, research, and training issues, in part through case examples. The chapters present family therapy and family-oriented interventions with an emerging evidence base in an easy-to-read and digestible manner.
Organized into six sections, this title covers:
- The history of the field and the general concepts of family function and dysfunction
- How to do family evaluation, formulate a broad diagnostic plan, delineate goals and plan treatment
- Provides indications, contraindications and evidence-based results
- Discusses ethical quandaries, professionalism, and training issues
- Techniques that can be utilized in the therapeutic encounter to foster change and growth in both patients and their families.
The text addresses the need for the modern day clinician to have a solid foundation in cultural competency and to be able to work with patients who come from a range of cultural, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This classic teaching textbook is well suited for mental health clinicians of all levels who work with families.
