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Informationen zum Autor Eddy Street has a background in clinical and counselling psychology and his professional activity has principally been in child-focused services. He is employed as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS in the Cardiff area. His counselling and therapy practice involves working with individuals, couples, families and staff groups. Klappentext Drawing on many years' experience in practice, teaching and research, Mark Rivett and Eddy Street present philosophical, sociological and empirical views of family therapy. Balancing the perceived benefits against the potential limitations, they pose questions, which challenge those within the profession to think hard about their role.This book stimulates debate among practitioners and helps trainees adopt a more reflective and critical attitude towards their own professional development and the development of their profession. Inhaltsverzeichnis Beginning at a Beginning Family Therapy as Critque A Troubled Legacy? Systems Theory and Family Therapy Family Therapy¿s Affair with Postmodernism Philosophy and Family Therapy Freedom or Control? The Sociological Critique of Family Therapy Who Are the Family Therapists? Social Policy, Social Justice and Family Therapy Does It Work? How Does It All Go Together? Where Is the Individual? Integrating Theory and Practice Beginning at an Ending Beyond `Both/And¿