Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques

Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques

<b>A complete guide for helping professionals, with tried-and-true techniques for practicing family counseling therapy</b> <p>Now in its second edition, <i>Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques</i> is filled with up-to-date, systems-oriented techniques focused on field-tested results. Outlining the dos and don'ts of working with different types of families and the various complications, nuances, and complexities that can occur, this practical guide provides a broad and proven selection of interventions, processes, and guidelines for working interactively, systematically, and compassionately with families.</p> <p><b><i>Working With Families</i>, Second Edition covers a range of topics including:</b></p> <ul> <li> <p>Family work in different settings</p> </li> <li> <p>Session-by-session guidelines</p> </li> <li> <p>Therapeutic themes by family type</p> </li> <li> <p>Managing adolescents in family sessions</p> </li> <li> <p>Dealing with fear of family work</p> </li> <li> <p>Family mapping</p> </li> <li> <p>Strategic child assessment</p> </li> <li> <p>Chemical dependence and its impact on families</p> </li> </ul> <p>Informed by the author's many years of experience in the field, both as a clinician and as a trainer, <i>Working With Families</i>, Second Edition offers an invaluable systems-oriented, goal-directed, problem-solving approach to family counseling therapy for all mental health professionals.</p>