Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory  

Integrating Family Therapy brings together family psychology and systems theory to explore the ways that systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems. Read from beginning to end, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes in family psychology and systems therapy. Read in a topical way, it provides state-of-the-art information on working with a particular problem in a systems context. Timely and engaging. Integrating Family Therapy is accessible and valuable both to newcomers and to experienced clinicians and researchers in the family field.

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Reviews

Drs. Mikesell, Lusterman, and McDaniel have done the field a great service in compiling Integrating Family Therapy:  Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory.  This wonderful volume represents the advancing edges of the field, integrates the most current research, and includes a veritable “who’s who” of family psychologists among its contributors.  This will be a treasured reference work for the clinician. -Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D., ABPP,  Faculty, Cambridge Hospital-Harvard  Medical School and Editor, Journal of Family Psychology                                        

This fine volume provides us with a comprehensive collection of original chapters on family psychology and systems theory.  Reading the table of contents and the list of contributors, one cannot help but be impressed by the breadth and depth of the subjects covered and by the authoritativeness of the contributing authors.  The chapters themselves fully live up to these high expectations.  Pick your topic, and there will be a first-rate review that will inform the expert yet be accessible to the beginner.  I expect it to be a much consulted companion to professional for many years to come.- Donald A. Bloch, M.D., Director Emeritus, Ackerman Institute  For Family Therapy and Editor, Family Systems Medicine                                                                                                                                 

Integrating Family Therapy does just that.  It draws together the latest and most forward-looking thinking in the field of family psychology.  Nowhere in family psychology has the scientist-practitioner tradition been set forth more coherently and comprehensively.  But this is not a book for psychologists alone.  Exemplary in its integration of multiple levels of assessment and intervention, this volume persuasively demonstrates the wisdom of using both wide-angle and close-up lenses in family therapy, and in psychotherapy generally. - Alan S. Gurman, Ph.D.,  Department of Psychiatry, University of  Wisconsin-Madison Medical School                                                         

Bravo to the editors and authors for this outstanding family therapy text!  It is comprehensive, well written, groundbreaking.  It includes the latest thinking of many of the most articulate clinicians and researchers in the field.  The editors are to be commended for their wisdom in the selection of authors and subjects and for their excellent editing of this superb and comprehensive text, which will surely become a classic reference for us all.  - Monica McGoldrick, ACSW, Ph.D., Director, Family Institute of New Jersey,  Metuchen, NJ                                                                                                                                                              

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