Experiential Family Therapy: A Complete Overview From History To Methods.
Therapeutic work with families is a recent scientific phenomenon but an ancient art. Throughout human history, designated persons in all cultures have helped couples and families cope, adjust, and grow (Samuel T. Gladding). In the preface of his book, Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, Family Therapist, Michael P. Nichols stresses on the importance of an elaborate session with the unhappy family, and the goals it accomplishes that are very much absent from the regular, traditional approaches or the academic sessions. Beginning therapists are understandably anxious about how to proceed and not sure they'll know how to be helpful. ("How do you get all of them to come in?") Veterans often speak in abstractions. They have opinions and discuss big social issues -- social constructionism, postmodernism, managed care, second-order cybernetics. 15 pgs, bibliography lists 7 sources.
