Family Therapy: A Systemic Behavioral Approach

By Joan Atwood

This is the only book that captures the essentials of families in crisis in one volume. The editor focuses on practical issues and techniques for family counseling, including diagnosing, marital counseling, and referral services. Also discussed are gender issues, adolescents and their families, divorce mediation, and bereavement counseling. The book presents an integrated approach to family therapy, combining systemic and cognitive-behavioral theory. The diagnosis/assessment process is at the systemic level while the interventions are primarily behavioral. Professor Atwood utilizes a life cycle approach, the new direction in family therapy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830413006
• ISBN13: 9780830413003
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Introduction to Family Therapy

This book is an excellent introduction to field of family therapy. It is a very comprehensive text which provides an enormous amount of information in a well organized way. The author presents information on the history of family therapy, the field today, single parent households, family-school collaboration, family art therapy, divorce and divorce mediation, and bereavement. The book not only provides the reader with a thorough coverage of the theoretical groundings of the family therapy field but also selects certain topics and presents a systemic therapeutic approach. The book is organized using the life cycle as a backdrop for the systemic-behavioral approach