Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists (The Guilford Family Therapy Series) Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition

by Lee Williams (Author), Todd M. Edwards (Author), JoEllen Patterson (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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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 with 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.

See also the authors' Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition: From the First Interview to Termination, which addresses all aspects of real-world clinical practice, and Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy.

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"In the ever-increasing literature of couple and family therapy, there continues to be a dearth of attention paid to important everyday issues, relevant perspectives, and usable methods of clinical assessment. This book is the best remedy thus far for this state of affairs. Like the authors' related book Essential Skills in Family Therapy, it is highly accessible, readable, and practical. Wisely integrative, it pays well-warranted attention to 'individual' issues without ever losing its systemic-relational core, and will be an especially welcome guide for neophyte family therapists."--Alan S. Gurman, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy Training, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

"Masterfully conceived and brilliantly presented, this book focuses on the necessary and inevitable interdependence of assessment and intervention. The relevance and range of issues and populations covered is impressive. The authors succeed in offering a practical, straightforward reference tool for all couple and family therapists. Too often, clinical books fail to represent the foundational nature of assessment. This book not only understands this relationship, it also delivers, demonstrating how change strategies and methods flow logically and directly from comprehensive systemic assessment. This is a wonderful 'how-to' volume on a fundamental and timeless topic. It is a great companion to the authors' Essential Skills in Family Therapy."--Howard A. Liddle, EdD, ABPP, Professor and Director, Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"As the title indicates, this comprehensive book is essential reading for all marital and family therapists."--Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago

"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, MSW, LCSW, Founder and Director, Partners for Collaborative Solutions, Skokie, Illinois

"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, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

“In this book, authors provide readers with the knowledge and information to develop a beginning set of assessment skills with families and couples….This book is different from many introductory text books on family assessment in that it does not focus specifically on one problem or population; rather it provides a wide range of issues a therapist might encounter in diverse treatment settings….By learning these skills for assessment, a therapist will be ready to engage thoroughly in each part of the intervention and treatment process….This is a well-organized, easy to follow informational guide for new therapists. It provides a solid foundation on which beginning practitioners can rely. Authors provide specific strategies for the evaluation of clinical issues across the lifespan and in a variety of relationships through the use of case studies and interviewing techniques to assist the novice practitioner to begin to understand individual, couple, and family functioning.” ― The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families Published On: 2012-07-01 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Lee Williams, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and does couple therapy with veterans at the VA San Diego Medical Center.

Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor and Director of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

Larry Chamow, PhD, LMFT, is Clinical Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and is in full-time private practice at the Pacific Family Institute in Carlsbad, California.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005DB7H4I
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Guilford Press; Reprint edition (July 18, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 18, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2406 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
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JoEllen Patterson
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School, Family and Mental Health Professions
Ph.D University of North Carolina Greensboro
M.Ed. Wake Forest University
B.A. Baylor University
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
- Anthony Brandt
Recognizing the profound impact of the family on human development, Jo Ellen Patterson, Ph.D. became interested in families - their joys and sorrows, early in her career but, it wasn't until her twenties that she discovered a relatively new profession - Marriage and Family Therapy.Simultaneously, she learned about a new medical speciality - Family Medicine. Immediately thereafter, she decided to spend her career exploring family well being. Using an interdisciplinary perspective which blends the social and biological sciences, she focuses on training and education that offers the most comprehensive understanding of family functioning.
Now, many years later, Dr. Patterson has published four books on family health and family therapy and is finishing her fifth book on evidence based practice. Her bestseller, Essential Skills in Family Therapy 2nd ed. (Guilford, 2009), has been adopted by many training programs across the United States.In addition, it has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
A second and equally important interest of Dr. Patterson has been understanding the role of culture on families and development. Dr. Patterson realized that religious work, therapy, education, indeed any enterprise that involves cross cultural exchanges, requires an understanding and respect for culture.
Jo-Ellen obtained a Rotary Scholarship to Cambridge University for a year to study history and culture. A few years later, she moved with her husband to Zaire and did field work in rural Zaire for the Agency for International Development(AID). Then, she lived in Cairo for two years where she served as a consultant for the international school and taught at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
Since coming to USD over twenty years ago, Dr. Patterson's interests have remained steadfast. She has worked to develop mental health services in Pediatrics, Reproductive Medicine, and Family Medicine in the UCSD healthcare system. Additionally, she has been given a faculty appointment as voluntary Associate Clinical Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry. At UCSD, she also serves as a Voluntary Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Global Health. She has served on the board of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association and has had 3 Fulbrights to Norway, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Family Systems and Health
Jo-Ellen currently has a lead article coming out in March Family Process(journal).
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