Samuel T. Gladding, Wake Forest University
Published June, 1997 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 1998, 507 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-836396.

      This comprehensive text focuses on the multiple aspects of family therapy. It begins
by examining various ways that families develop and identifies the characteristics of both healthy and dysfunctional families. It continues by presenting the rationale and history of family therapy, its general processes, and the main theoretical approaches to  therapeutically working with families. Also explored are the issues and dynamics in     working with special family forms. The book closes with a discussion of the ethical, legal, and professional issues for today's family therapist, along with current trends.

     I. UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES.
          1. Individual and Family Life Cycles.
          2. Healthy and Dysfunctional Characteristics of Families.

     II. THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH FAMILIES.
          3. Rationale and History of Family Therapy.
          4. The Process of Family Therapy.
          5. Psychoanalytic and Bowen Family Therapies.
          6. Experiential Family Therapy.
          7. Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies.
          8. Structural Family Therapy.
          9. Strategic and Systemic Family Therapies.
          10. Solution-Focused and Narrative Family Therapies.

     III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS IN FAMILY THERAPY.
          11. Working with Single-Parent Families.
          12. Working with Remarried Families.
          13. Working with Culturally Diverse Families.

     IV. PROFESSIONAL ISSUES, RESEARCH, AND TRENDS IN FAMILY THERAPY.
          14. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy.
          15. Research and Assessment in Family Therapy.
          16. Current Trends in Family Therapy.
          AAMFT Code of Ethics
          Ethical Code for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.
          Glossary.
          Subject Index.
          Name Index.