Families and Family Therapy PDF

Rating: (8 reviews) Author: Salvador Minuchin ISBN : 9780415665414 New from $33.48 Format: PDF

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This special edition of the classic text includes a new introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing influence on contemporary practice.

One of family therapy’s foundational texts, Families and Family Therapy is as relevant today as ever. Dr Minuchin looks especially at the therapist’s role and tactics, presenting the views and strategies of a master clinician in a clear and practical form. Transcripts of actual family sessions – both with families meeting their problems fairly successfully and those seeking help – are accompanied by a running interpretation of what is taking place. Constructing a model of an effectively functioning family and defining the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling, the book explores the ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow.

Combining vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy, this is an important text for all those interesting in the theory and practice of family therapy.

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• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (July 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415665418
• ISBN-13: 978-0415665414
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces

Families and Family Therapy PDF

Sal Minuchin is known as the primary theoretician behind Structural Family Therapy. Structural Therapy is especially helpful with families that have inappropriate boundaries or that have dysfunctional marital dyads. This book explains the concepts behind the theory and helps the clinician understand how to put the therapy into practice. The book is well written and easy to read.

Even if a therapist is primarily working with another counseling theory, this is an important book to have read and to have as part of the therapeutic repetoire.

By Geoffrey L Smith

I purchased this book for a graduate course in Couples and Family Systems. If anyone wants to learn a great deal about structural family therapy, I highly recommend this book. It is extremely informative and very readable. It's amazingly enlightening- Minuchin discusses how problems that are regarded as genetic or biological are really manifestations of dysfunctional families,e.g. anorexic women are a product of couples who withhold their feelings.

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