Competence, Courage, and Change: An Approach to Family Therapy

by David Waters and Edith C. Lawrence

Book Overview

The concept of competence provides the needed framework. Beginning with the idea that most symptoms represent adaptive attempts gone awry, a competence approach develops the healthy urges that reside within symptoms and helps clients organize around those instead of around the problems themselves. This book delineates the why and how of this way of building therapy around hidden strengths, based on a strong partnership with families. Courage,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393701395
• ISBN13: 9780393701395
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"