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JoEllenPatterson,LeeWilliams,Todd M.Edwards,LarryChamow,ClaudiaGrauf-Grounds

Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination

Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination

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This book is a revised and expanded version of a popular text for students and beginning clinicians, focusing on how to conduct comprehensive assessments, develop collaborative treatment plans, and intervene effectively for frequently encountered clinical concerns. It includes discussions of addictive behaviors, children's brain development, premarital counseling, divorce therapy, preventing premature terminations, and uses of technology in clinical practice. It also has a chapter on working with older adults and their caregivers, revised assessment resources, and chapter-opening vignettes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 333 pages
Publication date: 23 July 2018
Publisher: Guilford Publications


Many students and beginning clinicians have relied on this engaging, authoritative text--now revised and expanded--to hit the ground running in real-world clinical practice. Focusing on what works, the authors show how to flexibly draw on multiple theories and techniques to conduct comprehensive assessments, develop collaborative treatment plans, and intervene effectively for frequently encountered clinical concerns. Mental health skills needed by all therapists are interwoven with state-of-the-art family therapy knowledge. Illustrated with instructive case examples and vignettes, the book helps the reader navigate typical dilemmas and troubleshoot when treatment gets "stuck."

New to This Edition
* Discussions of addictive behaviors (pornography, gambling, video games, social media); children's brain development; premarital counseling; divorce therapy; preventing premature terminations; and uses of technology in clinical practice.
* Chapter on working with older adults and their caregivers.
* Revised throughout with current research and evidence-based practice recommendations.
* Extensively rewritten chapter on treatment planning.
* Chapter-opening vignettes, plus new and revised case examples throughout.
* New assessment resources, including an Appendix on screening instruments.

See also the authors

Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists, which shows how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, and Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy.

Weight: 614g
Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781462533435
Edition number: 3 New edition

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