Family Therapy: An Overview

by Irene Goldenberg, Mark Stanton, Herbert Goldenberg

This current, engaging, and practice-oriented text is your complete resource for mastering the many facets of family therapy. In this ninth edition, the authors examine and explain key viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy -- featuring practice-oriented content to help you become an empathic and effective family therapist. Color-coded boxes highlight key aspects of family therapy, such as family diversity, evidence-based practice research, ""Thinking Like a Clinician"" exercises, case studies, clinical notes, and therapeutic encounters. Examples illustrate family therapists from many professions, including social work, MFT, psychology, and counseling. You'll also find up-to-date material representing the latest thinking on central issues and topics, including increased attention to LGBTQ families and alternative forms of family life and to gender, culture, and ethnic considerations.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: School, Textbooks, Grad School, Nonfiction, Counselling

608 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2016

Reviews

[Adam Jarvis · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a textbook, and it reads like a textbook. Overall, pretty good and fairly easy to read as far as textbooks go.

[Bronte Detenbeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a book for school, a typical dry textbook. However, I did find some of the information especially useful for practical application, so it scored higher for me than others!

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

What can I say, it's a textbook and like most, it is not the best. This one has a lot of good info, but sometimes it feels overly rushed in some parts and way too long in others. The writing can be quite opaque at times, which was very frustrating. If the authors stuck with a consistent chapter structure and eased up on the overly long sentences, it would have been better.

[Analie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this as a graduate student. It's not my favorite textbook because it's very dry and gives little information about how the different theories are put into practice.

[Marva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finishing Marriage and Family Counseling this last term has me really thinking about exploring the possibility of adding a MFT certificate to my master's program.

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good info, but it’s a textbook!

[Emily Sandridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book contains valuable information and practical applications, it is a textbook.