Main description:

*A student- and clinician-friendly volume, now revised and updated; 35% new material includes more dos and don'ts for conducting therapy sessions.
*Extensive cases bring the realities of clinical work to life.
*The author's 40+ years of experience shines through; he also conducts frequent workshops and writes consumer health articles.
*An excellent core text for MFT courses, as well as an appealing supplement to marriage and family survey textbooks.

Contents:

1. Family Therapy: Welcome to Oz
2. Core Concepts: Process, Patterns, Problems, and Resistance
3. The Basic Six
4. In the Beginning: Great Expectations
5. In the Beginning: Running the Sessions
6. The Middle Stage: Are We There Yet?
7. Endings: Enough Already?
8. Billy Has a Problem: Kids in the Family
9. Billy: The Story Continues-In the Middle of the Middle
10. "See How She Treats Me!": The Parent-Adolescent Struggle
11. The Parent-Adolescent Struggle II: The Return of Ms. Harris and Ellen
12. Getting to the Core: Couple Work in Family Therapy
13. The Power of One: Individual Work in a Family Context
14. Staying Sane: Survival Tips for Therapists
Suggested Reading
References