Handbook Of Family Therapy

This volume reflects the achievements in developing new concepts and models of family therapy and new approaches to special clinical issues and problems during the 1980s. Chapters by experts such as Boszormenyi-Nagy, Everett, Guttman, Lankton, Liddle, McGoldrick, Madanes, and Walsh offer insight into a variety of areas including systems theory, cybernetics, and epistemology; contextual therapy; Ericksonian therapy; strategic family therapy; treating divorce in family therapy practice; ethnicity and family therapy; and training and supervision in family therapy. 1: Historical and Conceptual Foundations; 1: The History of Professional Marriage and Family Therapy *; 1: Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Epistemology; 2: Models of Family Therapy; 2: Behavioral Family Therapy; 2: Behavioral Marital Therapy; 2: Bowen Theory and Therapy; 2: Brief Therapy:The MRI Approach *; 2: Contextual Therapy *; 2: Ericksonian Family Therapy; 2: Focal Family Therapy; 2: The Milan Systemic Approach to Family Therapy; 2: Family Psychoeducational Treatment; 2: Strategic Family Therapy *; 2: Structural Family Therapy; 2: Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy; 3: Special Issues and Applications; 3: Family Therapy as the Emerging Context for Sex Therapy; 3: Treating Divorce in Family-Therapy Practice; 3: Promoting Healthy Functioning in Divorced and Remarried Families; 3: Ethnicity and Family Therapy; 3: A Family–larger-System Perspective; 3: Values and Ethics in Family Therapy; 3: Training and Supervision in Family Therapy