Working With Families

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
don'ts 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 author's 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.