Family Therapy: Concepts Process and Practice

"The fourth edition of Family Therapy: Concepts Process and Practice (FTCP&P4e) like previous editions will be a textbook for use in family and couple therapy professional post-graduate training programmes. This book will be a single-authored volume which comprehensively addresses the field of family therapy and draws together all that is best from a wide variety of theories, techniques and research findings and integrates these into a coherent approach to practice. The book will offer a critical evaluation of the major schools of family therapy, an integrative model for the practice of family and couple therapy, and examples of how this model may be used with common child-focused and adult-focused problems. Findings from research on the effectiveness of family and couple therapy will be reviewed and the implications of these for evidence-based practice outlined"-- Provided by publisher.