This comprehensive, yet user-friendly survey of the field of marriage and family therapy takes a holistic view and looks at people within the context of their environment. The systemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understanding people and families in context. The text — divided into three sections including and “The Systemic Framework, and ” and “The Practice of Family Therapy, and ” and and “The Systemic Practitioner and ” — includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a “dynamic process model” for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, Assessment; Intervention; Training Supervision; Research; and Epistemological Challenges are described and discussed

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