Family therapy review

"How many answers can one problem generate? Dr. Rambo, an experienced professor of a COAMFTE accredited masters program, Dr. West, President of the AAMFT Regulatory Board, Dr. Schooley, past president of FAMFT, and Tommie Boyd, an experienced chair and professor, begin to answer this question in an edited text that introduces a basic case example that prominent practitioners from each model of family therapy examine. Readers will see what questions are asked from each models perspective, how practitioners of one model will define the problem versus how practitioners of another model might see the situation differently, and so on. Students will be able to apply the different perspectives gained in this text to the national marriage and family therapy licensing exam"-- "This unique text uses one common case to demonstrate the applications of a wide range of family therapy models. Readers will find it useful when studying for the national family therapy licensing exam, which requires that exam takers be able to apply these models to case vignettes. The authors, all of whom are practicing family therapists, apply their chosen model of family therapy to a single, hypothetical case to highlight what each model looks like in practice. Beginning therapists will find the exposure to new ideas about therapy useful, and will be better able to establish which approaches they want to explore in more depth. Experienced therapists and supervisors will find it useful to understand what "those other family therapists" are doing, and to meet the challenge of supervising those from different perspectives. Family Therapy Review is the practical tool therapists need to make sense of the field, and meet the varied challenges their clients present"--

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Mental Health. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.