Family therapy : concepts and methods / Michael P. Nichols, Richard C. Schwartz ; foreword by Salvador Minuchin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, Michael P.
Other Authors: Schwartz, Richard C.
Language:English
Published: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2001], ©2001.
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxi, 570 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The context of family therapy. The foundations of family therapy
  • The evolution of family therapy
  • Early models and basic techniques: group process and communications analysis
  • The fundamental concepts of family therapy
  • The classic schools of family therapy. Bowen family systems therapy
  • Experiential family therapy
  • Psychoanalytic family therapy
  • Structural family therapy
  • Cognitive-behavioral family therapy
  • Recent developments in family therapy. Family therapy enters the twenty-first century
  • From strategic to solution-focused: the evolution of brief therapy
  • Narrative therapy
  • Integrative models
  • The evaluation of family therapy. Comparative analysis
  • Family therapy research: science into practice, practice into science.