Integrative Family Therapy

<p>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.</p><p><i>Integrative Family Therapy</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Charts direct the reader through the model and illustrate how the model is employed by means of several case studies.</p>