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Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for evaluating a wide range of clinical issues and concerns in adults, children and adolescents, families, and couples. The authors demonstrate ways to use interviewing and other techniques to understand both individual and relationship functioning, develop sound treatment plans, and monitor progress. Handy mnemonics help beginning family therapists remember what to include in assessments, and numerous case examples illustrate what the assessment principles look like in action with diverse clients. This book will be invaluable to family therapists, social workers, clinical psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, and other professionals who work with families and couples; students in these fields. It also serves as a text in direct practice and therapy courses within family therapy, social work, clinical psychology, and counseling programs.

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9781609180799

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This well-organized text will serve as a fine resource for students and early career professionals working in the field of couple and family therapy. - Frank M. Dattilio, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA As the title indicates, this comprehensive book is essential reading for all marital and family therapists. - Daniel Le Grange, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, USA Williams et al. provide beginning family therapists with a comprehensive roadmap for assessing key areas that may contribute to couples' and families' difficulties. Unlike other couple and family therapy texts, this book strongly emphasizes that assessment isn't just a prelude to treatment; rather, the two are vitally interconnected. It helps readers hone their observation and listening skills so they are better able to assess clients accurately and treat them effectively. This book will serve as an excellent text for graduate-level courses. - Matthew D. Selekman, Codirector, Partners for Collaborative Solutions, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Williams et al. provide beginning family therapists with a comprehensive roadmap for assessing key areas that may contribute to couples' and families' difficulties. Unlike other couple and family therapy texts, this book strongly emphasizes that assessment isn't just a prelude to treatment; rather, the two are vitally interconnected. It helps readers hone their observation and listening skills so they are better able to assess clients accurately and treat them effectively. This book will serve as an excellent text for graduate-level courses. - Matthew D. Selekman, Codirector, Partners for Collaborative Solutions, Evanston, Illinois, USA

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Lee Williams, Todd M. Edwards, JoEllen Patterson, and Larry Chamow, all at the Marital and Family Therapy Program, University of San Diego, California, USA

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