Handbook of Family Therapy

The Science and Practice of Working with Families and Couples

Handbook of Family Therapy: The Science and Practice of Working with Families and Couples

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The next major reference in the field of family therapy has arrived! The new Handbook of Family Therapy is destined to become a classic, covering the emergent research, theory, and practice in the field over the past decade. In proposing a paradigm shift unique across all of the helping professions, it explores three themes:(1) clinical practice, (2) research, and (3) systemic theory. The evolution and future of family therapy is recorded in the comprising chapters authored by the foremost leaders in the field.

About the Author(s)

Thomas L Sexton is a Professor at Indiana University, Research Director for the Centre for Adolescent Studies, Clinical Director off the Centre for Human Growth, and co-creator of Functional Family Therapy, a family intervention program for at-risk youth.

Gerald R. Weeks is Professor and Chair of the Department of counseling at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Board of Sexology, and an approved Supervisor of AAMFT.

Michael S. Robbins is a faculty member in the University of Miami School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences.

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