Basic Family Therapy / Edition 3

by Philip J. Barker, Philip Barker

Overview

The third edition of this established text provides an eclectic, readable, and up-to-date introduction to family therapy. It offers a basic orientation to the field and covers all the main contemporary schools of family therapy. The book also presents a coherent model of therapy which students can apply as they start learning the skills they need to work effectively with families. This thoroughly revised work fully discusses the considerable advances in this rapidly progressing area, including new theoretical ideas and innovative techniques which have developed in the six years since the second edition was published.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195209471
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	07/28/1992
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.19(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Philip Barker, MB, BS, FRCPsych, FRCP (C), is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. The Development of Family Therapy

Editorial Reviews

It was a pleasure and a privilege to read the sixth edition of this book.  It is more difficult, however, to write an adequate introduction, as there are few enthusiastic phrases that have not already been invoked to describe the various editions of Philip Barker’s book that have appeared since the first in 1981. 

I would like to be clear that this is an eminently readable book for those who are new to the discipline. Anyone who is not new to the discipline, however, and has seen a previous version will know this; readers and reviewers before me have commented on the skill of the author, who could write a book on the complex and theoretically diverse domain of family therapy that is at once scholarly yet thoroughly accessible. Readers of previous editions will find the update worthwhile and may be reassured to note a familiar ordering to many of the chapters.

Glenda M. MacQueen, MD, FRCPC, PhD. - Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

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