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Using case studies with transcripts of actual sessions, Irene Goldenberg (UCLA) and Herbert Goldenberg (California State U., Los Angeles) cover family therapy's history, development, training research and intervention techniques. Chapters cover gender, culture, and ethnicity; alternative family structures, such as single-parent families, remarried families, and gay and lesbian families; new research on the relationships between family functioning and major medical disorders; and a variety of standard models of family therapy, such as experiential models and transgenerational models. -- Copyright © 2000 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved


Book Description
FAMILY THERAPY provides a balanced presentation of the major theoretical underpinnings and clinical practices in the field. By presenting an overview of traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy, Herbert and Irene Goldenberg provide current, relevant, practice-oriented content laying the foundation for students to become proficient family therapists. This edition reflects the Goldenbergs' commitment to providing students with not only traditional family therapy theoretical frameworks, but also the field's evolving models of practice. It is the complete resource for assisting students in mastering the many facets of family therapy. For this new edition, Michael White, founder of Narrative Therapy, has written a new foreword for the text.


Book Info
Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Textbook examines and explains traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy. Includes the passcode for access to an online library offering more than 4,000 publications. Previous edition: c1999. Edition without passcode not yet available.


About the Author
Both Irene and Herbert Goldenberg are active and experienced teachers and practitioners of couples and family therapy. Irene is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She served as Associate Chairperson of that department and as Director of Psychological Services for many years, and continues to teach marriage and family therapy courses to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers there. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he developed and taught classes in family therapy. He currently supervises doctoral students and directs the family therapy program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. They hold membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Family Therapy division (43) of the American Psychological Association. Both have been elected fellows in that APA division. The Goldenbergs are co-authors of another book published by Brooks/Cole, COUNSELING TODAY'S FAMILIES, Fourth Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In this revision of their best-selling book, Irene and Herbert Goldenberg chronicle the history, development, training, research, and interventions of the field of family therapy, including a basic introduction to family systems theory and the family life cycle framework. Case studies (with transcripts of actual therapy sessions) bring theory to life.

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