Sunday, November 18, 2007

Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques [Kindle Edition]

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Author: John T. Edwards
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A complete guide for helping professionals, with tried-and-true techniques for practicing family counseling therapy

Now in its second edition, Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques is filled with up-to-date, systems-oriented techniques focused on field-tested results. Outlining the dos and don'ts of working with different types of families and the various complications, nuances, and complexities that can occur, this practical guide provides a broad and proven selection of interventions, processes, and guidelines for working interactively, systematically, and compassionately with families.

Working With Families, Second Edition covers a range of topics including:

  • Family work in different settings

  • Session-by-session guidelines

  • Therapeutic themes by family type

  • Managing adolescents in family sessions

  • Dealing with fear of family work

  • Family mapping

  • Strategic child assessment

  • Chemical dependence and its impact on families

Informed by the author's many years of experience in the field, both as a clinician and as a trainer, Working With Families, Second Edition offers an invaluable systems-oriented, goal-directed, problem-solving approach to family counseling therapy for all mental health professionals.

  • File Size: 2381 KB
  • Print Length: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (September 20, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005OQFEI8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,045 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques

This is a book for professional shrinks and I'm no professional, but I found it fascinating, extremely informative and very helpful. Mr. Edwards presents his subject is such a way that anybody can understand it. I know I did.

I like the way he simplifies things with lists and explanations that are very easy to follow. And I like how he talks about they way psychology used to look at problems and treatments and how they do today.

But particularly helpful to me was the chapter on chemical dependency. It's a problem I'm very familiar with, as I have suffered with cocaine addiction myself. I didn't have any help quitting, because I didn't want to admit I had a problem. I relapsed more times than I can count and I eventually hit bottom and clawed my way out of my addiction. It's been ten years since since I've used coke, five years since I've had the desire.

I do drink wine on occasion with dinner, maybe once a week, but that's it. I'm cured. But it would have been so much easier if I would have been able to admit to my addiction, if I would have had the kind of help talked about in this book, if I only could have seen the problem as Mr. Edwards outlines it.

Ah well, I'm better now, but if you are in a family with a member who is using and abusing, I recommend this book, even if you're not a professional, because after reading it, you'll see the problem for what it is and you'll have a pretty good idea about the kind of help you'll need.
By Island Dreamer
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One of the true masters in family therapy, Dr. Edwards provides a conceptual framework along with a host of practical techniques to help any therapist working with families improve their confidence, competence, and outcomes. Bravo!
By Irish Review
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