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Over the last three decades, family therapy has revolutionized the mental health field, changing the way human problems are conceived and therapy is conducted. In concert with the dynamic growth of family therapy, the field of family therapy training and supervision has also expanded enormously yielding many new ideas and skills. Yet, until now, few books have been devoted to it, and no single volume has attempted to relate the full breadth of this growing field in terms of its conceptual and theoretical expansion as well as its practical application. HANDBOOK OF FAMILY THERAPY TRAINING AND SUPERVISION fills this need by presenting a truly comprehensive view of this dynamic area.
To accomplish this broad yet in-depth scope, editors Liddle, Breunlin, and Schwartz have assembled 30 highly acclaimed authorities to author chapters in their respective areas of expertise. For further clarification, the editors have included segues that introduce and analyze each of the book's four major sections providing the reader with an overview of the section, highlights of themes that run through it, and discussion of the issues raised in a way that ties the chapters together.
The book opens with a presentation of the unique and innovative
approaches to training and supervision that have evolved in each separate school of family therapy. Offering a panoramic view of the entire field of family therapy, these seven chapters allow for fascinating comparisons among the different schools regarding the process by which ideas about therapy evolve into training techniques and philosophies. Section II follows with an explication of the pragmatics of family therapy supervision. Helping family therapytrainers avoid and anticipate the common mistakes involved with supervision, the skills described in this section create an atmosphere conducive to learning and maintaining a working trainer-trainee relationship, and finally, for training of supervisors. Practical guidelines
List of contents
Preface, SECTION ONE OVERVIEW 1 Family Therapy Training and Supervision: An Introduction SECTION TWO FAMILY THERAPY MODELS: APPROACHES TO TRAINING 2 Teaching the Structural Way 3 The Milan Training Program 4 Training in Bowen Theory 5 Training in the Brief Therapy Model 6 Training Strategic Therapists: The Use of Indirect Techniques 7 An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systems Approach 8 functional Family Therapy: Basic Concepts and Training Program SECTION THREE PRAGMATICS OF SUPERVISION 9 Systemic Supervision: Conceptual Overlays and Pragmatic Guidelines 0 The Trainer-Trainee Relationship in Family Therapy Training 11 Muddles in Live Supervision 12 Cybernetics of Videotape Supervision 13 Concurrent Training of Supervisors and Therapists SECTION FOUR CONTEXTS FOR TRAINING 14 Training and Supervision in Degree-Granting Graduate Programs in Family Therapy 15 Born Free: The Life Cycle of a Free Standing Postgraduate Training Institute 16 Family Therapy Training in Psychiatry 17 Nursing and Family Therapy Training 18 Family Therapists Teaching in Family Practice Settings: Issues and Experiences 19 Academic Psychology and Family Therapy Training 20 Marriage and Family Therapy and Graduate Social Work Education SECTION FIVE SPECIAL ISSUES 21 Learning to Think Culturally 22 Reflections on Supervision 23 Research 24 Family Therapy Training-It's Entertainment 25 Outcomes of Live Supervision: Trainee Perspectives EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF FAMILY THERAPY
About the author
Howard A. Liddle, PhD, ABPP, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, the developer of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, is on the adjunct faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has devoted his career to evolving and disseminating IFS, which now is being taught all over the world. Dr. Schwartz founded the Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois, which coordinates IFS trainings in the United States and internationally. He is a featured speaker at many national conferences and has published more than 50 articles and books about IFS and other psychotherapy topics. His website is
https://selfleadership.org.
Summary
This comprehensive work brings together 30 highly acclaimed authorities on family therapy training and supervision. Chapters present the distinct approaches to training and supervision that have evolved in each school of family therapy.
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"The first major overview in the field of training in family therapy...a state of the art update and jump board for the imagination...it becomes immediately a necessary reference." --Carlos E. Sluzki, MD, Editor, Family Process; Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield-A valuable and far-reaching text.--Journal of Family Psychology, 6/19/1988
