Table of Contents
Prologue
Part One Understanding Families and Family Dynamics
Chapter 1: Individual and Family Life Cycles
Chapter 2: Healthy and Dysfunctional Families
Chapter 3: Working with Culturally Diverse Families
Chapter 4: Working with Single-Parent Families
Chapter 5: Working with Blended Families
Part two Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Families
Chapter 6: History of Family Therapy
Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Enrichment and Therapy
Chapter 9: Psychodynamic and Bowen Family Therapies
Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapy
Chapter 14: Solution-Focused and Narrative Family Therapies
Part Three Professional Issues and Research in Family Therapy
Chapter 15: Working with Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
Chapter 16: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
Chapter 17: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy