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""Engaging, Creative, and Practical"" - Lakitta D. Johnson, Jackson State University Introduction to Family Counseling: A Case Study Approach presents basic knowledge about family counseling and applies various theoretical models to a case example looking at one nuclear family, along with its extended family members, that readers follow throughout the text. Judy Esposito and Abbi Hattem's multi-generational family is constructed from their experiences as professors and family therapists to exemplify the concepts and theories of family counseling. Beyond the theories of family counseling, students learn about the family life cycle and various tools for assessing families as well as the history of family counseling. Ethical issues relevant to family counseling are also included along with transcripts from hypothetical family counseling sessions throughout the book. In addition, the book focuses on working with diverse families and takes special care to emphasize multicultural issues.

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Working with Families: A Case Study Approach offers a much needed approach to engaging students in the process of understanding and helping families. By using a multi-generational family case study, the authors open a window into working with families. -- Garry M. Breland Engaging, Creative, and Practical -- Lakitta D. Johnson You get a first-hand experience of being a family counselor as you undergo the experiential process of learning terms, skills, and concerns as you work with a family throughout this text. -- Drew Curtis Students will enjoy learning family systems from this engaging and comprehensive text. -- Shannon Wolf [Working with Families: A Case Study Approach] is extremely thorough and provides many thought provoking exercise and activities that can be used in the classroom. -- Judith E. Beechler

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Judy Folmar, Ph.D., is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Human Service Studies at Elon University in North Carolina. A licensed professional counselor and former school counselor, Dr. Folmar specializes in play therapy with children and families. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina; and enjoys spending time with her sons, Ben and Patrick, her dog, Cosmo and her cat, Sadie. Abbi Hattem, Ph.D. is an individual, marriage, and family therapist in private practice in Chapel Hill NC. She specializes in the mental health sequelae of acute and chronic trauma and of chronic illnesses, including eating and dissociative disorders, for individuals and their families. She has been an adjunct faculty member at California State University at Northridge, the University of Southern California, and most recently Elon University. She has been on the faculties at Texas Tech University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She has two grown sons and lives in Chapel Hill NC with her fiance Bruce and their dog Trotsky and three cats Rumpelteazer, Ashrei, and SugarRei.

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