Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods - Rilegato

Nichols, Michael P.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0205827195 ISBN 13: 9780205827190

Casa editrice: Prentice Hall, 2012

Riassunto

Mike Nichols' engaging yet thorough guide has long been the standard in family therapy. 

 

The author describes and analyzes the field of family therapy, covering its history, schools, and developments. Numerous cases help readers appy theories to real situations and make the text even more engaging.  

 

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Describe clinical approaches
• Understand old and new developments in the field of family therapy
• Analyze successes and failures in research and the impact on current clinical practices
• Compare different schools of family therapy and explain the contemporary status of distinct schools of therapy

 

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"In this volume, Mike Nichols tells the story of family therapy - and tells it very well. It's hard to imagine a more readable and informative guide to the field. . . . It is a thorough and thoughtful, fair and balanced guide to the ideas and techniques that make family therapy such an exciting enterprise. Dr. Nichols has managed to be comprehensive without being tedious. Perhaps the secret is the engaging style of his writing . . . this superb book has long set the standard of excellence as the best introduction and guide to the practice of family therapy."

Salvador Minuchin, M.D.Boca Raton, FL

L'autore:

Michael P. Nichols is a professor at the College of William and Mary. Dr. Nichols received his B.A. from the University of WIsconsin, and his P.h.D. from the University of Rochester. He teaches and practices family therapy, and is the author of numerous journal articles and books, inlucdingInside Family Therapy, The Lost Art of Listening,Stop Arguing with Your Kids, and Essentials of Family Therapy. He is co-author, along with Salvador Minuchin and Wai-Yung Lee, of the newly publishedAssessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Prentice Hall
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0205827195
• ISBN 13: 9780205827190
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 391