Basic Family Therapy

by Barker, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780195209471
• ISBN10: 0195209478
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The third edition of this established text provides an eclectic, readable, and up-to-date introduction to family therapy. It offers a basic orientation to the field and covers all the main contemporary schools of family therapy. The book also presents a coherent model of therapy which students can apply as they start learning the skills they need to work effectively with families. This thoroughly revised work fully discusses the considerable advances in this rapidly progressing area, including new theoretical ideas and innovative techniques which have developed in the six years since the second edition was published.

Author Biography

Philip Barker, MB, BS, FRCPsych, FRCP(C), is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary, Canada

Table of Contents

The Development of Family Therapy

Healthy Families and their Development

Schools of Family Therapy

Basic Theoretical Concepts

Models for the Assessment of Families

Practical Aspects of the Assessment of Families

Indication and Contra-Indication for Family Therapy

Outcome Framing

Practical Points in the Treatment of Families

Common Family Problems

Strategic and Systemic Therapy

Other Therapeutic Devices

Marital Therapy

Terminating Treatment

Teaching and Learning Family Therapy

Research in Family Therapy

Ethics in Family Therapy

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