Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, 3/E
ISBN-10: 0130167207
ISBN-13: 9780130167200
Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2002
Format: Cloth; 496 pp
Published: 06/14/2001
Description
For upper level undergraduate or beginning graduate level marriage and family counseling courses offered through counselor education, child and family studies, and psychology departments.
This best selling text has been thoroughly updated to reflect a current and in-depth look at the field of family therapy. It retains its unique approach of leading the reader developmentally from understanding how families function to using therapeutic techniques that will help them change. Extremely organized and well written, this edition offers comprehensive coverage of all major theories of family therapy.
Features
Contains information on the dynamics underlying these different forms of dysfunctionality as well as ways that work in helping families faced with these problems.
Provides the latest information about associations dedicated to promoting family therapy and means by which therapists can best assist families in entering and being successful in treatment.
Offers structured exercises and questions to stimulate reflection on text material.
Organizes content in a logical, developmental format: 1) Understanding Families, 2) Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Families, 3) Special Populations in Family Therapy, and 4) Professional Issues and Research in Family Therapy.
Focuses on "how" to work with different types of families.
Assists readers in understanding and retaining the main points of the text.
New To This Edition
Contains information on the dynamics underlying these different forms of dysfunctionality as well as ways that work in helping families faced with these problems.
Provides the latest information about associations dedicated to promoting family therapy and means by which therapists can best assist families in entering and being successful in treatment.
Offers structured exercises and questions to stimulate reflection on text material.
Table of Contents
I. UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES.
II. THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH FAMILIES.
III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN FAMILY THERAPY.
IV. PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND RESEARCH IN FAMILY THERAPY.
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Author Bios
Samuel T. Gladding is professor of counselor education, director of the counselor education program, and the associate provost at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has been a practicing counselor in both public and private agencies since 1971. His leadership in the field of counseling includes service as
Dr. Gladding is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work and the ASGW newsletter. He is also the author of more than 100 professional publications. In 1999, he was cited as being in the top 1% of contributors to the Journal of Counseling and Development for the 15-year period from 1978 to 1993. Some of Gladding's most recent books include The Counseling Dictionary (2001); Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, Fourth Edition (2000); Group Work: A Counseling Specialty, Third Edition (1999); The Creative Arts in Counseling, Second Edition (1998); and this edition of Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice (2002).
Dr. Gladding's previous academic appointments have been at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fairfield University (Connecticut), and Rockingham Community College (Wentworth, North Carolina). He was also director of Children's Services at the Rockingham County (North Carolina) Mental Health Center. Cladding received his degrees from Wake Forest (B.A., M.A. Ed.), Yale (M.A.R.), and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (Ph.D.). He is a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor (North Carolina). He is a former member of the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling and a current member of the Research and Assessment Corporation for Counseling (RACC).
Dr. Gladding is the recipient of numerous honors, including
He is also a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work.
Dr. Gladding is married to the former Claire Tillson and the father of three childrenBen, Nate, and Tim. Outside of counseling, he enjoys tennis, swimming, and humor.
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