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The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook
Homework, Handouts, And Activities For Use In Marital And Family Therapy
Provides invaluable insight and vital clinical tools for creative couple and family intervention.
Couples and families present unique challenges in therapy, and other books rarely illustrate the effectiveness of particular types of interventions on actual cases. The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook provides clinicians with a wide range of practical field-tested therapy activities and homework that are solidly grounded to each intervention's theoretical underpinning, then explores their effectiveness by briefly relating real-life cases.
Respected experts detail how to perform several creative interventions and then follow with insightful clinical vignettes to illustrate under what specific circumstances each particular approach is effective.
Each chapter has an objective statement to orient the reader to the homework, handout, or activity, followed by a rationale. Instructions explain how to perform the activity, followed by clinical case vignette, a section of contraindications, and a list of useful resources for both the practitioner and the client. And, gives you the tools for approaches such as:
266 Pages
Author: Katherine M. Hertlein, Ph.D; Dawn Viers, Ph.D and Associates
Provides invaluable insight and vital clinical tools for creative couple and family intervention.
Couples and families present unique challenges in therapy, and other books rarely illustrate the effectiveness of particular types of interventions on actual cases. The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook provides clinicians with a wide range of practical field-tested therapy activities and homework that are solidly grounded to each intervention's theoretical underpinning, then explores their effectiveness by briefly relating real-life cases.
Respected experts detail how to perform several creative interventions and then follow with insightful clinical vignettes to illustrate under what specific circumstances each particular approach is effective.
Each chapter has an objective statement to orient the reader to the homework, handout, or activity, followed by a rationale. Instructions explain how to perform the activity, followed by clinical case vignette, a section of contraindications, and a list of useful resources for both the practitioner and the client. And, gives you the tools for approaches such as:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Symbolic-Experiential Therapy
- Transgenerational Theory
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experiential Therapy
- And Many Others
266 Pages
Author: Katherine M. Hertlein, Ph.D; Dawn Viers, Ph.D and Associates