Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

Content: Forewords xix Ellen M. Berman MD, Lloyd I. Sederer MD    Preface xxvii    Acknowledgments xxxi    A Guide for Using the Text xxxiii    List of Tables xxxvii    List of Figures xxxix    Section I Family Therapy in Context    1 The Field of Couples and Family Therapy: Development and Definition 5    2 Family Life in Historical and Sociological Perspective 23    Section II Functional and Dysfunctional Families    3 Understanding the Functional Family 41    4 Understanding the Functional Family in a Variety of Family Forms 59    5 Problems and Dysfunction from an Integrated Family Systems Perspective 75    Section III Family Evaluation    6 The Process of Evaluation 95    7 The Content of Evaluation 107    8 Formulating an Understanding of the Family Problem Areas 117    Section IV Family Treatment    9 Major Family Therapy Schools and Their Treatment Strategies 137    10 Goals 147    11 Family Treatment: Integrated Strategies and Techniques 157    12 The Course of Family Treatment 175    13 Promoting Change in Family Treatment: Issues of Alliance and Resistance 189    14 Family Therapy: General Considerations203    Section V Couples Therapy    15 Dysfunctional Couples and Couples Therapy 221    16 Sex Couples and Sex Therapy 235    17 Couples and Families Breaking Apart: Separation and Divorce 249    Section VI Family Treatment When One Member Has a Psychiatric Disorder or Other Special Problem    18 Family Treatment in the Context of Individual Psychiatric Disorders 267    19 Family Treatment in the Context of Other Special Problems   Violence to Self and Others 301    20 The Family and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Illness 321    21 Working with Families in the    Section VII Results of and Guidelines for Recommending Family Therapy    23 Controversies Relative Contraindications and the Use and Misuse of Couples and Family Therapy 371    24 Results: The Outcomes of Couples and Family Therapy 381    Section VIII Ethical Professional and Training Issues    25 Ethical and Professional Issues in Couples and Family Therapy 405    Suggested Reading 419    References 419    Index 421