Theory and Practice of Family Therapy and Counseling (SAB 230 Family Therapy)

By James Robert Bitter

Book Overview

A model for successful integration of multiple points of view, James R. Bitter's THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FAMILY COUNSELING AND THERAPY supports the development of personal, professional, and ethical family practice. The text's concrete, empirically based approaches, as well as diagnostics and visual tools, allow you to observe others in groups. Case studies, sample dialogues, and exercises help you to apply the concepts you've learned.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534421784
• ISBN13: 9780495654049
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

More tha a great textbook!

Having just completed a cursory reading of this text, I am extremely pleased with its style and content. Dr. Bitter prepared this text with the student in mind, and accomplishes the task of offering a guide to clinical understanding of the many theories of psychotherapy as applied to families. My only regret lay in the absence of addressing psychoanalytic object relations theory, but since that is one of my specialties, I can certainly supplement that in my teaching.By offering a hypothetical family presenting for family therapy, he sets about teaching several different theoretical perspectives by which the practitioner works with the family. I will certainly utilize this text for future course instruction. Walton H. Ehrhardt, EdD