Families and Family Therapy
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674292367 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. Accompanying each transcript is the author’s running interpretation of what is taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist’s tactics and maneuvers. Different situations, such as the extended family, the family with a parental child, and the family in transition through death or divorce, are examined. Minuchin describes methods of diagnosing or “mapping” problems of the troubled family and determining appropriate therapeutic goals and strategies. Salvador Minuchin presents six chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessionstwo devoted to ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative success; four concerned with families seeking help.
I for one will make it standard reading with my students, psychiatric residents, and other trainees, as well as faculty. The book is a rounded, self-contained statement of structural family therapy that has much to teach the advanced therapist, of whatever theoretical persuasion, and perhaps equally as much to teach the beginner. Anyone who has a serious interest in family therapy today will want to have and to know this book. Published by Harvard University Press, it is a landmark textbook that will greatly facilitate the task of the teacher of family therapy and theory. The student who is learning to work with families will find it easy to understand, fascinating, and richly rewarding at many levels… Minuchin has combined the most sophisticated of conceptual approaches with simple, direct exposition, achieving a creative synthesis that, in this reviewer's opinion, will stand as the definitive textbook in this field for perhaps another generation… A
Salvador Minuchin, M.D., is author of Families and Family Therapy and Family Kaleidoscope and coauthor of Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context.
Good service Dale Marshfield Fast service - book as promised. Geoffrey L Smith said Structural Family Therapy Explained. Sal Minuchin is known as the primary theoretician behind Structural Family Therapy. Structural Therapy is especially helpful with families that have inappropriate boundaries or that have dysfunctional marital dyads. This book explains the concepts behind the theory and helps the clinician understand how to put the therapy into practice. The book is well written and easy to read.Even if a therapist is primarily working with another counseling theory, this is an important book to have read and to have as part of the therapeutic repeto. A Customer said It's like taking a Structural Family Therapy course!. I purchased this book for a graduate course in Couples and Family Systems. If anyone wants to learn a great deal about structural family therapy, I highly recommend this book. It is extremely informative and very readable. It's amazingly enlightening- Minuchin discusses how problems that are regarded as genetic or biological are really manifestations of dysfunctional families,e.g. anorexic women are a product of couples who withhold their feelings.