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Family Therapy - Softcover

Gladding, Samuel

 
9781292058795: Family Therapy

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For courses in Marriage and Family Counseling, Marital Therapy, and Family Therapy.

Inviting, well-illustrated, and developmental in approach―a comprehensive look at the theory and practice of working with families.

Considered the most thorough, well-written text in the field, Samuel T. Gladding’s, Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice , give readers clear coverage of all aspects of working with couples and families from proven, evidence-based theories. In a user-friendly organisation and writing style, it covers important background information on healthy and functional families and different types of families, and includes an overview of how individual and family life cycles intertwine. The basic processes involved in treating couples and families are made clear, before delving into a dozen theoretical ways of treating families.

Thoroughly updated, the 6th Edition of Family Therapy, includes an abundance of examples and case studies, new illustrations, more than 175 new references, helpful learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, a new chart comparing the different therapies, and more.

  • User-friendly and well illustrated, this book is developmental in its approach to working therapeutically with families.
  • The practitioner-oriented focus shows how to work with different types of families.
  • Illustrations, diagrams, summaries, examples, case studies, and a glossary help readers understand and retain the main points in the text.
  • NEW! Realigned chapters put new emphasis on some of the materials in former chapters.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samuel T. Gladding is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University. He is a fellow in the American Counseling Association (ACA) as well and its former president. He has also served as president of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB) and president of Chi Sigma Iota (international counseling honorary). Gladding has authored numerous professional publications, including 45 books. Prominent among them are these texts by Pearson: Groups: A Counseling Specialty (2016), Family Therapy: History, Theory and Practice (2015), and Clinical Mental Health Counseling (with Deborah Newsome) (2014).  Twice a Fulbright Specialist (Turkey and China), Professor Gladding has taught counseling and worked with counselors and universities in over a dozen countries and his writings have been translated into half a dozen languages. He was a first responder to the 9/11 attack in New York City and to the shootings at Virginia Tech providing psychological first aid to families and colleagues of victims killed. The American Counseling Association awarded him their highest honor, the Gilbert & Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person; the Association for Creativity in Counseling named their Inspiration and Motivation Award in his honor; and the ACA has named their Unsung Heroes Award after him.

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