Inside Family Therapy: A Case Study in Family Healing - Softcover

Nichols, Michael P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205284124 ISBN 13: 9780205284122

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1998

Synopsis

Often recounted in a clinical manner from a therapist's perspective, the story of family therapy is many times viewed in an academic, theoretical context. Such analyses, while scholarly, tend to lack the real stories, the heart and soul of the counseling experience for those in it. Now, however, such a story is available. Following one family through their years of therapy, this book delves into the hearts and minds of the characters. So by the story's end, readers will come to view the family members not so much as characters in a therapist's drama, but rather as heroes of their own stories. And in turn, the readers will then be able to reflect on their own experiences. In this book, Mike Nichols, a family therapist, offers his narrative "diary" as he develops and enters into the process of family therapy with one family. In addition to providing his own personal account of the therapy process as the counselor, he includes the rich, detailed study of a family as they progress through life's stages from their initial courtship to the departure of their children from home. Social workers, therapists or others interested in the topic.

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Review:

“Strengths include presentation of therapy scenarios; focus on one family going through the therapy to demonstrate the stages of therapy and the stages of family life; real life experiences of the Salazar family members (students get inducted into this and usually ‘read ahead’ of what is assigned, something not normally done!).”

William Quinn, Clemson University

 

“The Inside Family Therapy book is perfect.  What is so very impressive about the content and the writing style is how Mike Nichols weaves and threads ways of thinking as he sits with this family, along with specific skills he utilizes in his work with them.  It allows students to see and experience what is going on within Nichols and how that is played out in what he says and does with the family.  This is not an easy thing to do with the written word (except in novels) but he does it so very well.  It also leads to much greater self awareness on the part of the students. 

Robert Jackson,  University of Iowa

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0205284124
• ISBN 13: 9780205284122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242