Essential Skills in Family Therapy, First Edition by Lee Williams

Essential Skills in Family Therapy, First Edition by Lee Williams

Designed throughout to meet the developmental needs of the beginning family therapist, this handbook provides readers with the basic skills and tools necessary to become empathic, confident, and successful practitioners in today's rapidly changing field of family therapy. From initial client intake to the nuts-and-bolts of the interview, assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, treatment planning, intervention techniques, troubleshooting, and termination, the book translates current research findings into cogent recommendations for practice. Numerous case examples and sample treatment plans, forms, and questionnaires complement the text. This volume will be of use to students of family therapy as well as new therapists in any clinical setting.

"An unprecedented clinical primer illustrated with myriad helpful suggestions that take into account the inner dilemmas of the therapistThis comprehensive and up-to-date book serves as a detailed manual of operations for clinicians, one that can be referred to again and again --like a wise consultant-- when treatment gets stuck.' Even more crucially, therapists will learn the basis for thinking and acting with a biopsychosocial and integrative view of effective practice in the context of current changes in health care delivery. Trainers, supervisors, and students of family therapy will wonder how they could teach and learn before the publication of this book." - Celia Falicov, PhD (University of California at San Diego)

"This is the resource that beginning family therapists have anxiously awaited. Nowhere else can they find the day-to-day pragmatics of marital and family treatment spelled out so comprehensively....It is written by seasoned clinicians who teach and supervise beginning students and know their fears, blind spots, and mistakes." - Richard C. Schwartz, PhD (The Family Institute of Northwestern University)

"A valuable and welcome text. I was impressed by the wide array of coverage and the clear and practical way in which the material is presented ....I will look forward to using [this guide] in my classes to help students on their road to becoming artful, empathic, and knowledgeable therapists. As a trainer and supervisor, I am grateful to these four authors." - Marcia Lasswell, MA (University of Southern California)

"An up-to-date and comprehensive how-to' manual that specifically addresses the anxieties and knowledge gaps of beginners regarding the nuts-and-bolts' of treatment, and that also addresses the administrative and political issues that surround MFT treatment at the turn of the century....As with an actual person who mentored me, this book speaks with clinical wisdom, clarity, gentleness, sensitivity, and flexibility; and I believe it will empower beginning therapists to do their best work." - from the Foreword by Douglas H. Sprenkle, PhD (Purdue University)

Lee Williams, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and does couple therapy with veterans at the VA San Diego Medical Center.

Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Professor and Director of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

Larry Chamow, PhD, LMFT, is Clinical Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and is in full-time private practice at the Pacific Family Institute in Carlsbad, California.

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ISBN 13	9781572303072
ISBN 10	1572303077
Title	Essential Skills in Family Therapy, First Edition
Author	Lee Williams
Series	The Guilford Family Therapy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The Guilford Press
Year published	1998-05-07
Number of pages	250
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