Family Therapy : A Systemic Integration

by Becvar, Dorothy Stroh, Ph.D.; Becvar, Raphael J., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780205609239
• ISBN10: 0205609236
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

"This user-friendly book uses systems theory as an integrating framework for understanding the theory and practice of family therapy. It provides essential information for individuals preparing for the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy." "Family Therapy: A Systemic Approach 7e includes historical information, current developments, an overview of postmodernism, as well as consideration of various family and developmental theories that are integrated into a "dynamic process model" for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models discussed include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive, and five postmodern approaches. Epistemological challenges in the context of practice, assessment, intervention, training, supervision, and research are described and discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Systemic Framework

Two Different Worldviews

The Framework of Individual Psychology

The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy

Basic Concepts of Systems

Theory and Cybernetics Family

Therapy or Relationship Therapy Summary

The Historic Perspective Planting the Seeds: The 1940s Cybernetics

Development on Interdisciplinary Approaches

Gregory Bateson

Putting Down Roots: The 1950s

Bateson (Continued) The Double Bind Hypothesis Nathan Ackerman

Theodore Lidz Lyman Wynne

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