num_pages: 96
description: Pastoral counselors therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment which works better in some situations than in others. Integrative Family Therapy introduces the major schools of family therapy proposes a tested model that integrates the various approaches and illustrates how this model functions both for assessing and treating family problems. Seven central concepts are discerned as a way of understanding the various family therapies as a group. Then the major family therapy theories are discussed including cognitive family life cycle-developmental interactional-communication multigenerational object relations problem solving and structural family. After examine their deep structures an integrated model of six discrete moments is presented and illustrated. Charts direct the reader through the model and illustrate how the model is employed by means of several case studies.
language: English
title: Integrative Family Therapy
publisher: Fortress Press