Counseling today's families

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Counseling today's families

Herbert Goldenberg, Irene Goldenberg

Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1998

3rd ed

  • acid-free paper

Available at  / 3 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-364) and indexes

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Description

Focusing on the application of family therapy within different types of domestic arrangements, this book includes coverage of single-parent-led families, blended families, cohabiting heterosexual couples, male and female homosexual couples, and dual-career families. The authors examine current family structures and living arrangements, and common problem areas from a family-systems perspective, and offer intervention guidelines for working effectively with each type of domestic group.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Understanding family relationships: counselling today's changing families
  • the family as a social system
  • appraising marital and family functioning: intervening in troubled relationships. Part 2 Counselling families with varied lifestyles: counselling the single-parent-led family
  • counselling the remarried family
  • counselling cohabiting heterosexual adults
  • counselling gay male and lesbian couples. Part 3 Counselling families with special characteristics: counselling the dual-career family
  • counselling ethnically diverse minority families.

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