Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System by Salvador Minuchin


Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System
Title : Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System
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ISBN : 0205470122
ISBN-10 : 9780205470129
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 224
Publication : First published April 2, 2006

A step-by-step guide to assessing couples and families, this text offers a clear delineation of the process of family therapy through richly illustrated case material, featuring clients from a diversity of backgrounds Appealing to both experienced and novel therapists, "Assessing Families and Couples" portrays a clear picture of what occurs in a two-session model in conducting a family therapy assessment. In the absence of a videotape to depict the process of therapy, readers can still visualize the details of the therapeutic journey in a step-by-step manner. Students and instructors, alike, will find this book an invaluable tool for the learning and teaching of family therapy assessment. The text begins with a brief historical review of family therapy today and continues with a detailed explanation of the authors' four-step assessment model. The assessment model is illustrated by a series of thoroughly detailed case studies, featuring African-American, European, Latin-American, Spanish, Irish, and Chinese families.

Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System Reviews

  • Caroline Abbott

    I read this for a class in Marriage and Family Counseling. Just reading this book has made me a better counselor. I love how Minuchin points out what is obvious to the counselor, and completely hidden from the families. Watching the light dawn for them is awesome.

  • MizzSandie

    A very good insight into family therapy from a narrative systemic perspective.

    It gives you casestories with written transcripts of the interaction and Minuchins observations and reasoning for w´hat he does a long the way and how he interprets the whole thing, which I found very useful and interesting. And you get to see up close how he frames his questions and moves forward in the whole process.

    I liked that he even included a case that was an example that he felt he wasn't proud of, and he should have acted differently, to show the readers how easily it is to go wrong, and how you in hindsight get another perspective of your own errors.

    definately a good read if you are interested in or curious about therapy and narrative/systemic practise.