Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists

by Lee Williams, Todd M. Edwards, JoEllen Patterson

Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for evaluating a wide range of clinical issues and concerns with adults, children and adolescents, families, and couples. The authors demonstrate ways to use interviewing and other techniques to understand both individual and relationship functioning, develop sound treatment plans, and monitor progress. Handy mnemonics help beginning family therapists remember what to include in assessments, and numerous case examples illustrate what the assessment principles look like in action with diverse clients.

See also the authors' Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third From the First Interview to Termination , which addresses all aspects of real-world clinical practice, and Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy.

Genres: Psychology, Grad School

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

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Lee Williams, PhD, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and does couple therapy with veterans at the VA San Diego Medical Center.

Reviews

[Chava · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think these books can be read and read again. Good for beginning therapists, but also for the more seasoned therapists.