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Family Therapy, second edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that provides students and practitioners with foundational concepts, theory, vocabulary, and skills to excel as a family therapist.
List of contents
I. THINKING LIKE A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 1 A History of Family Therapy
Chapter 2 Systems Theory
Chapter 3 Self of the Therapist
Chapter 4 Your Clients
Chapter 5 Considering Diversity
Chapter 6 Ethics in Family Therapy
II. SKILLS OF A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 7 Beginning the Family Therapy Session
Chapter 8 Basic Empathy Skills
Chapter 9 Advanced Empathy Skills
Chapter 10 Mutualization
Chapter 11 Effective Use of Questions
Chapter 12 Use of Self in Therapy
Chapter 13 Dealing with Intensity
Chapter 14 Assessment in Family Therapy (co-written by Kayleigh Sabo & Michael D. Reiter)
Chapter 15 Goal Setting and Termination
III. THEORIZING LIKE A FAMILY THERAPIST
Chapter 16 Intergenerational Family Therapies
Chapter 17 Experiential Family Therapies
Chapter 18 Strategic Family Therapies
Chapter 19 Systemic Family Therapies
Chapter 20 Postmodern Family Therapies
Chapter 21 Integrative Family Therapies
Chapter 22 Expansion of Family Therapy (co-written by Kayleigh Sabo & Michael D. Reiter)
About the author
Michael D. Reiter, Ph.D., LMFT, is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, 30-year therapist, and a full-time faculty member for over 20 years. He currently teaches and supervises at Capella University.
Summary
Family Therapy, second edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that provides students and practitioners with foundational concepts, theory, vocabulary, and skills to excel as a family therapist.
