Couples And Family Therapy In Clinical Practice Marital And Family Therapy (glick)

* Fifth edition of a classic text that views couples and family therapy through a psychiatric lens * Written by clinicians with a biopsychosocial perspective on illness and family dysfunction * Draws on case studies to present family-oriented interventions in an accessible manner * Explores underlying principles along with a wide range of practical therapeutic techniques * Culturally inclusive, enabling readers to work with patients from diverse backgrounds Content: Forewords xix Ellen M. Berman MD, Lloyd I. Sederer MD Preface xxvii Acknowledgments xxxi A Guide for Using the Text xxxiii List of Tables xxxvii List of Figures xxxix Section I Family Therapy in Context 1 The Field of Couples and Family Therapy: Development and Definition 5 2 Family Life in Historical and Sociological Perspective 23 Section II Functional and Dysfunctional Families 3 Understanding the Functional Family 41 4 Understanding the Functional Family in a Variety of Family Forms 59 5 Problems and Dysfunction from an Integrated Family Systems Perspective 75 Section III Family Evaluation 6 The Process of Evaluation 95 7 The Content of Evaluation 107 8 Formulating an Understanding of the Family Problem Areas 117 Section IV Family Treatment 9 Major Family Therapy Schools and Their Treatment Strategies 137 10 Goals 147 11 Family Treatment: Integrated Strategies and Techniques 157 12 The Course of Family Treatment 175 13 Promoting Change in Family Treatment: Issues of Alliance and Resistance 189 14 Family Therapy: General Considerations203 Section V Couples Therapy 15 Dysfunctional Couples and Couples Therapy 221 16 Sex Couples and Sex Therapy 235 17 Couples and Families Breaking Apart: Separation and Divorce 249 Section VI Family Treatment When One Member Has a Psychiatric Disorder or Other Special Problem 18 Family Treatment in the Context of Individual Psychiatric Disorders 267 19 Family Treatment in the Context of Other Special Problems Violence to Self and Others 301 20 The Family and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Illness 321 21 Working with Families in the Section VII Results of and Guidelines for Recommending Family Therapy 23 Controversies Relative Contraindications and the Use and Misuse of Couples and Family Therapy 371 24 Results: The Outcomes of Couples and Family Therapy 381 Section VIII Ethical Professional and Training Issues 25 Ethical and Professional Issues in Couples and Family Therapy 405 Suggested Reading 419 References 419 Index 421 Coverage includes the history of the field, general concepts of family function and dysfunction, and the basic principles that underlie family models of treatment. There is also guidance on how to conduct a family evaluation, formulate a broad diagnostic plan, delineate goals, and plan treatment. Chapters explore a range of specific techniques that can be utilized in the therapeutic encounter to foster change and growth in patients and their families, and provide indications, contraindications and evidence-based results. Along the way, the authors discuss ethical quandaries, professionalism and training issues, and the need for today's clinicians to be able to work with patients who come from a range of cultural, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic backgrounds. --Book Jacket

Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice has been the psychiatric and mental health clinician's trusted companion for over four decades. This new fifth edition delivers the essential information that clinicians of all disciplines need to provide effective family-centered interventions for couples and families. A practical clinical guide, it helps clinicians integrate family-systems approaches with pharmacotherapies for individual patients and their families. Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice draws on the authors' extensive clinical experience as well as on the scientific literature in the family-systems, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience fields.

This fully updated Fifth Edition of the classic text on couples and family therapy viewed through a psychiatric and psychosocial lens clearly delineates clinical practice, research, and training issues. Organized into six sections, it presents family therapy and family-oriented interventions with an emerging evidence base in an easy-to-read and digestible manner. Combining their expertise across the fields of training, addiction medicine, the family and medical illness, hospital psychiatry, and psychopharmacology, the authors draw on a wealth of case examples to offer a teaching textbook that is perfectly suited for mental health clinicians of all levels who work with families This book is an updated edition of the classic textbook on couple and family therapy through a psychiatric lens. It delineates clinical practice, research, and training issues, in part through case examples. The book presents family therapy and family-oriented interventions with an emerging evidence-base in an easy-to-read and digestible manner. Ira D. Glick, Md, Douglas S. Rait, Ph. D, Alison M. Heru, M.d, Michael Ascher, Md ; With Forewords By Ellen M. Berman, Md, And Lloyd I. Sederer, Md. Revision Of: Marital And Family Therapy / Ira D. Glick [and Others]. 2000. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.