Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques

About this book

A complete guide for helping professionals with tried-and-true techniques for practicing family counseling therapy Now in its second edition Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques is filled with up-to-date systems-oriented techniques focused on field-tested results. Outlining the dos and donts of working with different types of families and the various complications nuances and complexities that can occur this practical guide provides a broad and proven selection of interventions processes and guidelines for working interactively systematically and compassionately with families. Working With Families Second Edition covers a range of topics including: Family work in different settings Session-by-session guidelines Therapeutic themes by family type Managing adolescents in family sessions Dealing with fear of family work Family mapping Strategic child assessment Chemical dependence and its impact on families Informed by the authors many years of experience in the field both as a clinician and as a trainer Working With Families Second Edition offers an invaluable systems-oriented goal-directed problem-solving approach to family counseling therapy for all mental health professionals.