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Family Therapy

Concepts, Process and Practice
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Family Therapy by Alan Carr, now in its third edition, offers a comprehensive and updated examination of family therapy. It features a unique, integrative approach addressing family behaviour patterns, belief systems, and broader contextual factors influencing problems and their resolution. The book applies these models to issues across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, including conduct problems, drug abuse, marital distress, anxiety, and depression. Each chapter is student-friendly with plans, summaries, glossaries, case studies, and reading suggestions.
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This book is suited for students training in family and systemic therapy, practising family therapists, educators, and those interested in advanced approaches to behavioural and psychological issues within family contexts.

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Now in its third edition, this highly regarded and well-established textbook includes up-to-date coverage of recent advances in family therapy practice and reviews of latest research, whilst retaining the popular structure and chapter features of previous editions.

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Now in its third edition, this highly regarded and well-established textbook, Family Therapy by Alan Carr, includes up-to-date coverage of recent advances in family therapy practice and reviews of the latest research, whilst retaining the popular structure and chapter features of previous editions.

Presents a unique, integrative approach to the theory and practice of family therapy:

  • Distinctive style addresses family behaviour patterns, family belief systems and narratives, and broader contextual factors in problem formation and resolution.
  • Shows how the model can be applied to address issues of childhood and adolescence (e.g. conduct problems, drug abuse) and of adulthood (e.g. marital distress, anxiety, depression).
  • Student-friendly features: chapters begin with a chapter plan and conclude with a summary of key points; theoretical chapters include a glossary of new terms; case studies and further reading suggestions are included throughout.

Series: Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology

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Child & Family Social Work praises the book as a valuable essential text for both trainees in systemic/family psychotherapy and experienced therapists and educators, highlighting its ongoing importance in the field.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119954651

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 September 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 612g

Pages: 560

About the Author

Professor Alan Carr is the director of the Doctoral training programme in clinical psychology at University College Dublin and Consultant Couple and Family Therapist at the Clanwilliam Institute in Dublin. He has published over 20 books and 200 academic papers and conference presentations in the fields of family therapy and clinical psychology. He has extensive experience in family therapy and clinical psychology, having worked in the field in the UK, Ireland, and Canada.

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