Preceded by Couples and family therapy in clinical practice / Ira D. Glick, Douglas S. Rait, Alison M. Heru, Michael Ascher. Fifth edition. 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Field of Couples and Family Therapy : Development and Definition -- Family Life in Historical and Sociological Perspective -- Understanding the Functional Family -- Understanding the Functional Family in a Variety of Family Forms -- Problems and Dysfunction from an Integrated Family Systems Perspective -- The Process of Evaluation -- The Content of Evaluation -- Formulating an Understanding of the Family Problem Areas -- Major Family Therapy Schools and Their Treatment Strategies -- Goals -- Family Treatment : Integrated Strategies and Techniques -- The Course of Family Treatment -- Promoting Change in Family Treatment : Issues of Alliance and Resistance -- Family Therapy : General Considerations -- Dysfunctional Couples and Couples Therapy -- Sex, Couples, and Sex Therapy -- Couples and Families Breaking Apart : Separation and Divorce -- Family Treatment in the Context of Individual Psychiatric Disorders -- Family Treatment in the Context of Other Special Problems : Violence to Self and Others -- The Family and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Illness -- Working with Families in the Medical Setting -- Indications for and the Sequence of Family Therapy Evaluation and Treatment -- Controversies, Relative Contraindications, and the Use and Misuse of Couples and Family Therapy -- Results : The Outcomes of Couples and Family Therapy -- Ethical and Professional Issues in Couples and Family Therapy.

"Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice delivers the essential information that clinicians of all disciplines need to provide effective family-centered interventions for couples and families. A practical clinical guide, it aims to helps clinicians to navigate working within family-systems by reviewing clinical practice considerations, current research, and training issues in part through real world case examples. The chapters present family therapy and family-oriented interventions in an easy-to-read and digestible manner. The text is unique within the landscape of similar publications in that it is edited in part by psychiatrists but is designed to be an interdisciplinary resource for any treatment provider working with families including clinical psychologists, social workers, and advance practice nurses, as well as psychiatrists"-- Provided by publisher.