Description: I. UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES. 1. Individual and Family Life Cycles. 2. Healthy and Dysfunctional Characteristics of Families. II. THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH FAMILIES. 3. Rationale and History of Family Therapy. 4. The Process of Family Therapy. 5. Psychoanalytic and Bowen Family Therapies. 6. Experiential Family Therapy. 7. Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies. 8. Structural Family Therapy. 9. Strategic and Systemic Family Therapies. 10. Solution-Focused and Narrative Family Therapies. III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN FAMILY THERAPY. 11. Working with Single-Parent Families. 12. Working with Remarried Families. 13. Working with Culturally Diverse Families. IV. PROFESSIONAL ISSUES, RESEARCH, AND TRENDS IN FAMILY THERAPY. 14. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy. 15. Research and Assessment in Family Therapy. 16. Current Trends in Family Therapy. AAMFT Code of Ethics Ethical Code for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. Glossary. Subject Index. Name Index.

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